Guy founded Pro Football Support(sister company of AMAT Performance) after working full time for 12 years within professional football club academies as a coach and sports science practitioner.
AMAT Performance came from the success of Pro Football Support and a passion to help analyse & develop movement in elite young athletes
Matt and Guy have worked closely together from the initial launch of Pro Football Support with a passion for movement development within young athletes and AMAT Performance is the next stage of this process.
Matt brings a vast knowledge & experience of both theoretical and practical areas relating to biomechanics, strength & conditioning and personal development from his role as a principal lecturer in sport and exercise at Teesside University
Professor Spears is the brains behind the AMAT Performance System through his background in engineering specialising in computational biomechanics in the areas of sport & exercise.
Professor Spears is a leader in inventing technologies relating to the health and fitness industry.
Professor Spears convened the unit for Translational Research in Sport which is dedicated to translating evidence based, high quality research in sport & exercise into effective practice. he acts as associate editor and reviewer for numerous scientific journals and on a practical level advises the Teesside Sports Injury Clinic
Mihkel joined the AMAT Performance team during 2015 with a view to bringing knowledgable practical experience relating to movement development in young athletes.
Mihkel holds two MSc qualifications one relating to physical education from his native homeland Estonia and the other in Strength & Conditioning from Teesside University.
Mihkel brings a wealth of knowledge regarding movement development in young athletes from both a research and practical perspective.
Sam is our resident technology expert and with Mihkel has worked closely with Professor Spears to develop the technology processes behind AMAT Performance Systems.
Sam holds an MSc in Sport & Exercise Science as well as a fantastic amount of experience of working with elite young athletes over the last 4/5 years.
Sam is able to take that practical experience and easily relate it to on-line technology systems which aid the movement development of young athletes.
Phil manages our Pro Football Support provision and acts as our strength & conditioning expert on our AMAT Performance steering panel.
As well as having an MSc in Strength & Conditioning and holding the UKSCA accreditation Phil brings a wealth of experience including: