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Biography

Gary Stebbing is a performance development and conditioning expert with 22 years experience of sport and performance at the highest levels. In the last 12 years he has accumulated over 10,000 contact and training hours helping clients achieve personal success and reach their goals. More recently his success has spread to the worlds of golf and adventure sport where he now focuses much of his time and expertise.

A reputation for meticulous preparation and an achieving outcomes, his council and input has been sought by individuals from heart and lung transplant patients to elite professionals in sports, dance and business.

A frequent speaker on a diverse range of topics, he has presented on behalf of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA), the Manipulative Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MACP) and a range of private organisations. He has also spoken on sports conditioning and personal training issues at international conferences in the UK and Australia.

As an author, he has written articles for PGA Profile, The PGA Professional and Total Golf magazines.

Passionately committed to increasing standards of practice in exercise and fitness, he also tutors and mentors fledgling personal trainers via the CYQ personal training certificate he delivers.

Born in South London in 1965, his life has always been around sport and the outdoors. From the age of 4 he was a regular visitor to Stamford Bridge to watch a Chelsea team that included Cooke, Hudson, Osgood and his uncle Marvin Hinton. Although involved in many sports including, golf and cricket it was inevitable that he would find his way into football. As a junior he captained England in both European and World Championships and made his debut for Crystal Palace aged 18. He went on to play over 200 games as a professional however serious back injury hampered his progress and ultimately he never fulfilled his early promise.

Always a great student of training and performance, and having been blessed by the influence of some wonderful coaches and teachers, Gary channelled his commitment and love of physical exercise and performance development into a new arena. He continued to play football semi-professionally but now focused intently on education and developing new skills in the field of conditioning and performance coaching.

Academically, he studied Sport & Exercise Science at the University of Surrey and also achieved postgraduate certifications with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) with whom he holds the prestigious Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) certification.

On the journey toward mastery, he continues to spend many additional hours at specialist training programmes particularly those related to coaching, learning and performance. And of course those 10,000 hours and counting, at what Timothy Gallwey calls “the greatest seminar on earth”.

He also attends as many sporting events as he can.

“watching insanely talented and committed people do their thing is magnetic”

Even with a busy work schedule he finds time to train 3-4x per week, preferring resistance-training approaches to cardio-vascular these days. Still erring on the side of competitive, his current sporting goal is to bring his golf handicap down to single figures (without obtaining any technical instruction!!).