Biography
Gary Stebbing is a performance development and conditioning expert with 28 years experience of sport and performance at the highest levels. In the last 16 years he has accumulated close to 15,000 contact and training hours helping clients achieve personal success and reach their goals.
A reputation for meticulous preparation and achieving outcomes, his council and input has been sought from the boardroom to the sports arena. His client base includes board level in FTSE 100 organisations, CEO level of smaller public organisations and owners/partners heading companies that remain in private ownership. Within sport he has strong golf connections where for several years he has advised European Tour professionals.
A frequent speaker on a diverse range of topics, Gary has spoken on sports conditioning and personal training issues at international conferences in the UK and Australia. Recognised as an industry leader in golf conditioning, he currently delivers seminars for the Professional Golfers Association (PGA). He has presented on behalf of the Manipulative Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MACP) as well as a range of private organisations.
As an author, he has written articles for PGA Profile, The PGA Professional and Total Golf magazines, along with a range of fitness industry publications. Many of these articles are freely available in 'The Study' area of this site.
Additionally he has given his time and expertise to assist the Princes Trust, helping prepare adventure-racing teams for the various challenges they offer.
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. Although making over 200 appearances as a professional, and playing for a further five years as a semi-professional, a serious back injury when 19 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. While playing football semi-professionally he 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 world-renowned Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) certification. He is currently in the midst of reading for a Masters degree in Sport & Performance Psychology.
Committed to live long learning, he continues to be a student of human performance, this includes many hours of personal reading, attending lectures particularly those related to coaching, learning and training. And of course those 15,000 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 4-5x per week, and in 2009 completed his first adventure race. Although complete fitness may be the quest for many he prefers to focus on using resistance training as the mainstay of his personal conditioning.