Simon Hunt
Oslo, Norway
Email: sihunt.co.uk@gmail.com,
Web: www.sihunt.co.uk
Tel: +47 48210445
DOB: 08/1979
I am an experienced personal trainer. I have worked for over ten years with private clients, world class athletes and all types of cardiac patients, writing and delivering rehabilitation and training programs, including fitness and education. I’m experienced in training young people and adults of all ages, in groups and as individuals, and have excellent communication and presentation skills. I am English and currently live and work in Oslo, where I have trained the Norwegian long jump champion, Margrethe Renstrøm, who has won 5 national titles under my coaching. I have created my own website which includes athletic video analysis, training demonstrations and programmes, as well as health education for heart patients.
Personal Trainer
S.A.T.S Norge – Daily personal training, stretching and fitness class instruction
Track &Field Athletics Trainer
Lørenskog Atletics Club, Oslo – High & long jump
Olso & Akershus Friidretskrets – Regular group training of young athletes in jumping
Tjalve Athletics Club, Oslo – Margrethe Renstrøm, all personal coaching, training programming and periodization, competition planning and preparation, video analysis.
National Junior High Jump Squad – Head Coach Mike Dolby. As assistant coach I demonstrated and coached high-level international junior high jumpers.
Exercise Physiologist – Cardiac Rehabilitation
NHS Birmingham East and North P.C.T. Heartlands and Solihull Hospitals – Community Based Exercise and Health Promotion Programme Daily responsibilities: Assessment of new patients, devise, set and supervise exercise programmes for current patients including; M.I., P.C.T.A., Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts, Valve Replacements and Heart Transplants. Considerations – ALL Medication, P.V.D., osteoarthritis, immobility, muscle atrophy and diabetes. Supervise and deliver patient education and group discussion sessions. Topics covered include; Exercise, Diet and Nutrition, Medication, CHD Disease, Smoking Cessation, Stress and Relaxation.
University of Birmingham 1998 – 2000
BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science
Full body 3D biomechanical analysis of high jump approach and flight – ‘Vicon’ Analysis System
Event specific strength and conditioning Anatomy and physiology of exercise and health Psychology and motivation of exercise and sports performance Exercise and health/disease, Diabetes I/II, BP, obesity, Cardiovascular/heart disease, Osteoarthritis
Personal Web Site – www.sihunt.co.uk
I have spent the last year developing the ideas and systems for this site. The purpose of the site is to deliver online video content and support, for the athletes that I coach and jumpers from around the world. The videos are direct coaching demonstrations of specific plyometric and athletic skills. I personally demonstrate the exercise, edit the video and record the voice over. These are short, information rich videos, which allow the user to select the specific exercises that interest them. The site offers support to world-class athletes with comprehensive training programmes that are available for download.
The site also covers Cardiovascular Disease and Rehabilitation topics with specific educational files for patients to download. The site maintenance and systems are managed by myself.
Hi Simon,
I’ve looked at the training program “fuzz” made for you and I’m not always sure what the exercises are. For example, in the high jump drill section Wot is “St with slats and hurdle on penulitmate st”?
I ask because I’m going into my 3rd training year and I am trying to get as much information as possible to get the greatest benifit out of my training program.
I’ve also spoken to Mike Holmes and Jo Jennings who i train with on occasions.
So any information you could share with me would be fantastic and a great benifit.
will nice one sorry for the delay i’ve been away. St with slats is basically putting wooden slats on the floor to force you to place your feet right. Hurdle on penultimate stride is putting a small saq hurdle so that you have to really lift you knee high over it on the pen stride, this means you come in faster and a better postion for take off. right thanks for looking at the site, it will be easier to tell you all this on the phone as you will have more question. i would love to talk as i know jo as well adn some stuff about mike holms. My best advice is talk to steve smith he runs a restaurant in liverpool called jalons – heel apricitae a call and geoff parsons is a fountain of knowedge if you break his shell. ring me on 07930104497. $y!
Hey..
If you could only see me run, it would be much easir to explain to you my problem. I have been failing with my times in the 100 meter dash. Though I’ve tried may best in training, I still ran the same time back to back. I was running 2 sec. slower than average runners, could you help me out with your thoughts on how to improve.
Thank you,
Petergay Davis
Simon!
you wanna get some videos up of you doing the ab busting wallbar gymnastics style things, really impress some people! Hope things are good with you – any jumping still?
How you doing? Been a long time! Was looking at some high jump videos on youtube and before I knew it I ended up coming across your site. Nice demo on the plyos there
Mark Crowley
Yo Thanos,
thanks for the questions, I’m glad you found the information useful, I am producing some more videos for the site for you to see. I like your email address; I wondered who had that one! As for your questions:
1) Only you know the limits and abilities of your own body, although after about 23-24 you do need longer rest and recovery as mineral absorption is slower than if you were younger. I adjusted my training after 25yrs old to fit each phase of training into 6 week blocks. Each block consisted of 5 weeks training with 1 week complete rest before the next block started with the relevant max tests in the gym (clean, snatch, squat etc). In each week I would plan for 2 days training, 1 day rest, 3 days training, 1 day rest. Never train for more than 3 days in a row as you will need to rest. You will need weekly massage or physio to help avoid injury. Also a weekly ice bath (at least legs and midsection/back) of 10mins, no more, is practically essential if you are training well. If you have a depth jump element in your training you will need 6-8 weeks rest from that before you jump as this is the time your bones take to recover fully. This is different to any rebound box jumps you may be doing as these can be done leading up to competitions.
2) The heights of the boxes in the plyomectrics training videos are 30, 40 and 60 cm high. All the biomechanics research shows that any higher is not of any benefit to the power output of the rebound jump. So keep the boxes at 30-60 cm. If you are in doubt then keep the boxes low and focus on making the rebound jumps very quick and keep the body tall and light.
Good luck and let me know how the training goes and please let me know of any competitions you are in (any country) as I would love to see you jump. If you can send me a video of your training/jumping I can comment.
Hi Peter
Yes if you could send me a video of you running or training that will be best for me to comment on. Your training depends on you age, strength and ability. You should focus on leg strength though squats and lunges. When you run focus on arm speed and turnover – the faster your arms move the faster you legs will go. Don’t be worried about you arms getting out of sync with you legs or falling over if you legs don’t keep up with your arms. This will simply not happen as you body will just force your legs to keep up. Aslo try looking at you feet for the first 40-50m of the race. This will firstly help you legs to come through and most importantly help you to control you OWN race. By this I mean if you are only looking at you own feet you are not paying any attention to any one else. This means that when you do look up you are only in a 60- 50m race, giving you much less time to tighten up because some one is in the lead. The key is to stay relaxed, we all know this, but you need to find what works for you. The less you see of the other runners the better that’s why the leader often stays so relaxed as from their point of view the are in a race with no one else. Maurice Green is the best example of keeping you head down until you are in the lead at 50m. Also when Zana Block finally beat Marian Jones she did so by getting into the eye line of Marion forcing her to try harder and tighten up and slowing. This was the first time in over 50 races Marion was running with someone else in her vision.
Good luck Pete
Simon Hunt
http://www.sihunt.co.uk
Hi Thonos, thanks for you stats here what i think.
1.86,80KGRS,4 PERCENT BODY FAT. – ok I was 1.84m and 72kg with 4%fat. I found being light helps but make sure you body fat does not stay below 5 as this can lead to illness easily. BUT if you can get really strong you don’t need to be really light.
SNATCH 80KG, – This is good as you want to be able to snatch your body weight or more
CLEAN 105KGS, – This needs to be better; you need to be able to clean at least 150% of your body weight. I cleaned 110kg at 72kg body weight
FULL SQUAT 125 – Most high jumpers here do not squat below 90 degrees of flexion at the knee. If you are full squatting you should be able to clean a lot more, as you can catch the bar low and squat from the floor to lift. So you need to squat to 90 degrees up to 300% of you body weight. I squatted 200kg at 72kg body weight. Also when you are in competition preparation its best to squat as heavy as you can just to 45 degrees flexion. I would squat up to 235kg for two reps – make sure you have safety cage in place for this.
Also you need to work at step-ups, leg press, dynamic single leg press, jump squats, and hold squats to reaction lift. (Will explain on site)
VERTICAL JUMP 79CM,
3 STEPS&VERTICAL JUMP 94 CM,
Your vertical jump should be better and will improve with your strength. I was not as concerned with this as high jump is not a static event and box/depth jump rebound ability is a better measure. Instead of vertical jump I would use a standing back summersault into sand pit. This means you have to fully extend on the jump to make it round. You need to be able to back summersault from standing and land on the same spot not behind you. When you can do this bare foot and land softly you are there!
STANDING LONG JUMP 3.00 – Needs to be a lot better up to 310cm + I made 313cm. learning to back summersault will improve this.
4 KILOGRAMS SHOT FRONT.19.23 BACK 20.67 – This is excellent and you obviously have good explosive power in this or some long leavers!
5 STEPS WITH 2STEPS FL.START 18.00,
5 STEPS WITH 6STEPS AND FL.START 19.64 – I’m not to sure what you mean with these. We used a sprint to 10 long bounds alternating feet looking to get 35m+. Standing 5 bound/triple jump/double triple jump are also good.
Send me more stats if you have them and I will post explanations to some more you can do. To jump over 2.20m you need to be running the curve at 7.5 – 8.0 m/s at take off. If you can video some jumps with you run up marks visible and send me the measurements of your run up, I can calculate your speed and acceleration. The best way to condition you body to run 7.5 – 8.0 m/s is to do 300m sprint reps in no longer than 40sec. This will teach you body the rhythm you need.
wassup
just wanted to say that i use you plyometrics in the jumps to help out with my old high school team. stuff works.
hi Simon..while i must appreciate the videos u have assembled…i wasted enough time watching elite high jumpers jumps to realize that to go hight u have to learn to do these drills correctly…and seeking videos like these and that to free of charge means alot to me….but having said that i would like to know that have u acquired and official certification from IAAF or USATF etc egarding coaching…and can i follow ur routines and programes with full trust that they have been compiled by a techanically certified professional??
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Hello. I was wondering if you could comment on the optimum sequence of training-type days. For example, if there were three consecutive days of training put together, say one day for heavy lifts (such as sumo-style deadlifts), and one day of uphill sprinting, and one day of plyometrics…what would be the order you would put them in and why.
Thanks for a great site and all the best to you!
Scott from South Carolina, USA.
I have a really simple question that many others may share.
Why are plyometrics considered an intense exercise?
I am a recreational basketball player. I don’t know my vertical but at 6′ 2” I can barely dunk two handed so it certainly isn’t spectacular. I’ve experimented with squatting but I find it scary frankly, always feel like a joint is going to explode. I’ve also dabbled with bounding and depth jumps and it just feels so easy. All coaches are united in warning about the intensity of plyos and how is should be done at wide intervals for short periods to avoid overtraining and I just find myself thinking of 8 year olds playing hopskotch every day in the school yard or 16 year olds goofing around on a basketball court trying to dunk. Aren’t those intense plyometric workouts? Is it a technique thing? Is plyometric really distinct from normal jumping because of the short contact time thing?
It’s a simple question I know but I think I would understand the whole thing better if you could respond.
Thanks.
hi my name is Karl im from the Uk im a pro rugby player and im about to launch my own website for rugby training nutrition etc we really like the look of some of your videos from youtube would there be any chance of us putting these on our website ? we will set up a link pointing towards your site to?
Thanks karl
HI simon,
my name is aleksander and i live in Norway, on January 15, 2007 at 2:15 pm you
responded another readers question about training and restitusion.
“Yo Thanos,
thanks for the questions, I’m glad you found the information useful, I am producing some more videos for the site for you to see. I like your email address; I wondered who had that one! As for your questions:
1) Only you know the limits and abilities of your own body, although after about 23-24 you do need longer rest and recovery as mineral absorption is slower than if you were younger. I adjusted my training after 25yrs old to fit each phase of training into 6 week blocks. Each block consisted of 5 weeks training with 1 week complete rest before the next block started with the relevant max tests in the gym (clean, snatch, squat etc). In each week I would plan for 2 days training, 1 day rest, 3 days training, 1 day rest. Never train for more than 3 days in a row as you will need to rest. You will need weekly massage or physio to help avoid injury. Also a weekly ice bath (at least legs and midsection/back) of 10mins, no more, is practically essential if you are training well. If you have a depth jump element in your training you will need 6-8 weeks rest from that before you jump as this is the time your bones take to recover fully. This is different to any rebound box jumps you may be doing as these can be done leading up to competitions.
2) The heights of the boxes in the plyomectrics training videos are 30, 40 and 60 cm high. All the biomechanics research shows that any higher is not of any benefit to the power output of the rebound jump. So keep the boxes at 30-60 cm. If you are in doubt then keep the boxes low and focus on making the rebound jumps very quick and keep the body tall and light.
Good luck and let me know how the training goes and please let me know of any competitions you are in (any country) as I would love to see you jump. If you can send me a video of your training/jumping I can comment.”
I was wondering , do you know how quick the body of a 17 year old recovers after a workout? generaly….im training alot seeing i do gymnastics and track (hurdle). hope you have time to anser
Thanks
!
Aleksander
Hi Alex,
I think at your age you will recover on a daily basis as long as you nutrition is good and you are getting the right vitamins (c, d and b etc..) I have a few years in gymnastics too. You live in oslo… cool so do I. I coach at bislett statium on wednesdays and thursdays. I would like to meet you and talk to you. Give me a call on 48210445.
Mvh Simon Hunt
i train also at bislett stadium! but on monday wednstay and friday
. yeah sure we can talk 
seems like you know alot 
send me a mail, maybe you got msn or something?:) id rather talk to you online first and maybe ill se you on the stadium one day 
:) ive seen you there before 
. with a blond young boy doing box exercises 
cheers Aleksander
hei simon!
I so your comment about bislett and iam think is very good ! see you in bislett.
att . julio cesar
Hi Simon-
Do you happen to know the song and artist for the music playing during the Stefan Holm video where he jumps all six styles of High Jumping- thanks!
Hey. Great site! Very good job.
Hi Simon,
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We will send you a copy of confirmation of your degree to your address in two weeks time, because your student file is stored in the modern record department in the University Main Library.
If you wish to purchase a replacement certificate from the University online shop, please visit the website on http://www.as.bham.ac.uk/replacementcertificates. There is a £30 charge for a replacement certificate.
Any more queries please do not hesitate to contact me.
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Hi Si…just wondering if you have heard anything about passive stiffness? Can you use this to improve someone’s ability to generate power?
Hi,
I am a high jumper from Canada but am considering coming oslo for an exchange with my university. (probably for the 1st semester in 2009) Would you be able to send me contacts of coaches or do you know of any groups that I can train with for the 5 or so months I will be in Oslo? If you e-mail me, I can give you more info on personal bests, etc. Thanks so much!
Hei Simon,
great site and keep up the enthusiasm.
Augusto
Hei Simon, had a great first exercise with you today! Looking forward to the next one.
Hi Simon…thanks for the workout today! See you soon
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hi Simon, got another question for you, ive strugeled with a pulled hamstring for a while now ; ive had this injury for 9 months now of in witch i re-pulled it in the 4 month. now im finaly good but ive lost a significant amount of power and explosivity during this period. I currently working it up by regular strength training like manuals and mashines, im a fraid my progress will stagnate if i dont come up with some new exercises, got any good once for me? exercises im moust likley not to have done before would be greatly apreciated! Thanks!
hi.
your website looks great and i got very interested in trying some of yout drills.
is it possible for me to get a program from you, that i can follow every week.?
kenneth
Hey,
You know what you are talking about and your website is very professional. But, I was wondering if its possible to get a weekly workout from you that involves lifting workouts, and plyos. I am a high school triple, vaulter, and long jumper.
Thanks, Nick
Hey Simon,
I was trying to get ahold of you through e-mail and hadn’t heard from you in a bit, so I thought I would try the wall. Just wondering if I would still be able to train with you this coming fall/winter? I am just deciding when to book my flight now (thinking end of July or early August). Would there be any meets that late in the season? If you could give me a shout, that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks so much!
Lindsey