Who We Are
At Athletic Evolution, our mission is to deliver a pathway of age and stage appropriate athletic development, giving children and adolescents the physical and psychological skills to reach their potential.
In addition, we want to support coaches, clubs and organisations in the development of their youth athletes. We do this through bespoke Athlete Education Workshops, Coach Education Workshops, as well as our Podcast and Blog.
Our Values
GROWTH
PASSION
QUALITY
ACTION
HARD WORK
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID
CURIOSITY

WHAT WE DO

Athletic Development
Athletic Evolution is available to provide specialist Athletic Development Coaching to children and adolescents. Whether you are wanting coaching for an individual child, or your entire squad of athletes, Athletic Evolution is able to provide age and stage appropriate coaching to help your athletes improve physical literacy, power, speed, strength and conditioning.

Coach Development
Rob has over 15 years of coaching experience across a variety of roles from Casual Sports Coach to Regional Lead Strength & Conditioning Coach for Scottish Rugby, and everything in between. He has also been a UKSCA Accredited Strength & Conditioning Coach since 2010. As such, Rob has a wealth of experience in how to create a successful career development plan to help you achieve your career goals.
OUR TESTIMONIALS
“Rob has helped me with the challenge of adding on muscle mass and my reaching my goal of 100kg bodyweight. He is always pushing me to get more and more weight on my lifts. He is always open and there for a chat on any issues or guidance, or just a friendly chat. But then makes sure you are being a top class performance athlete when it comes to training.”
“Rob coached me as part of the borders academy programme. He has a real sense of pride in his work and will always go the extra mile to make sure you get what you need and want. Most coaches have the tools to resolve most situations but when I started having issues with my menstrual cycle, due to Rob’s approachable character, I was able to seek help and get to the bottom of the problem. He supported me with nutrition advice, an eye on ways to adapt training and had a really caring approach to get me to into the best and healthiest place possible. Not only an exceptional coach in the gym and on the pitch he is also a fantastic part of my support network off the pitch who I have continued to seek advice from.”
“It was an absolute pleasure to work along side Rob, he was good fun but yet a great leader, motivator, he worked hard and got things done. Also as an International level athlete I learnt alot from Rob, the way that he coaches, methods of training the content that he coached I still use in my training today! Would highly recommend!“
“Rob is exactly the trainer you would want, he consistently went the extra mile to provide and research strategies in goal setting, nutrition, hydration, stretching, pre race exercises both mentally and physically and improved swim down protocols. Poole swimming club has produced multi national medalists in the past few seasons. Although it was a great loss when Rob progressed onwards and out of the area, much of the clubs continued conditioning work stems from the philosophies and research learned from Rob.”
LATEST PODCAST INTERVIEWS
VJ Stanley (Balanced Excellence) Winning at all costs cheapens the victory.
VJ Stanley is the founder and President of Balanced Excellence. VJ was a 3 sport varsity athlete. He then went on to play junior hockey for the Rochester Monarchs and pursued his passion at Clarkson University. Unfortunately, he sustained two concussions in one week which ended his career after only one game. After the injury, […]
David Dunne (Hexis App) What’s missing in behaviour change?
David Dunne is a Performance Nutritionist with an array of experience working in elite sport with Harlequins, Queens Park Rangers FC, Bradford Bulls, British Fencing, British Canoeing and Professional Golfers. He is also the CEO of Hexis Performance and is currently completing a PhD in Digital Health and Behaviour Change. In this episode David discusses: […]
Dr Nico Kolokythas (Elmhurst Ballet School, StrengthMotionMind): Lessons learned from valuable mistakes.
Dr Nico Kolokythas has over 15 years experience in the athletic development of the adolescent in elite performance in a variety of sports (Judo, Netball, Basketball, Football, Taekwondo, Tennis). He is also currently the strength and conditioning coach for professional martial artists in Mixed Martial Arts. Based at Elmhurst Ballet School, U.K. he completed a […]
Delivering a pathway of age & stage appropriate physical activity, giving our youth the physical & psychological skills to reach their potential.