Ryan Gibney Coaching

There isn’t one best programme. 
 
There’s the programme that’s right for you, right now. 
 
A programme can work very well for one person and still be completely wrong for another. 
 
Your training history is different. 
 
Your goals are different. 
 
Your strengths and weaknesses are different. 
 
Your available time and recovery are different. 
 
So copying someone else’s training because it worked for them doesn’t mean it’s the right place for you to start. 
 
That’s why I built the Programme Finder. 
 
Answer a few questions about your training, goals and where you are in your season, and it’ll point you towards the most appropriate place to start. 
 
If you’re not sure where to start, DM FINDER.

A lift can stop building new strength and still be protecting the strength you’ve already built. 
 
Two different jobs. 
 
Only one of them shows up as a number going up. 
 
Drop a lift completely for a few weeks and it doesn’t wait for you. 
 
Early signs show up in two to three weeks. Quietly. Before it’s obvious on the bar. 
 
So in my programming, strength doesn’t disappear before a race. 
 
It changes shape. 
 
Volume comes down 
Intensity stays high.  
 
The lifts change too. 
 
More concentric based.  
Pin presses.  
Anderson Squats, 
High Box squats etc  
Lifts that limit the lowering phase. 
 
Same near max intensity. 
Far less soreness and damage. 
 
Strength stimulus stays. 
 
Recovery cost drops. 
 
The goal was never to keep every method forever.  
It’s to keep the ones still doing their job.

You’ve only got so many hours to train. 
 
That doesn’t mean you can’t make serious progress. 
 
It means you need to be more selective about what you spend those hours on. 
 
Especially when you’re trying to develop more than one quality. 
 
Get stronger. 
Get fitter. 
Run faster. 
Stay athletic. 
Prepare for a competition/ race/game 
Work on a weakness. 
 
You can absolutely do all of those things over time. 
 
You just can’t give everything equal priority and effort at the same time. 
 
That’s where I think a lot of training programmes fall flat on thier arses  
 
Not because the individual sessions are necessarily bad. 
 
But because they haven’t been properly organised around the person doing them. 
 
Your training history is different. 
Your strengths and weaknesses are different. 
Your goal is different. 
Your available time and recovery are different. 
So the programme should reflect that. 
 
Identify what matters.  
Build around it.  
Review it.  
Adjust it. 
That’s personalised coaching. 
 
More isn’t better. Better is better. 
 
If you want to know how I can help you 1-to-1,  
DM COACHING and I’ll send you the details.

The Ryan Gibney Coaching Performance Scholarship 2026 winner is Gwion Ellis. 
 
Congratulations Gwion. 
 
After reviewing the applications,  
Gwion stood out as the athlete I wanted to work with over the next 12 weeks. 
 
The scholarship isn’t about giving someone a generic training plan. 
 
It’s about taking an athlete from where they are now, identifying what is limiting their performance, and building the training around that. 
 
I’m looking forward to getting started and seeing what we can build together. 
 
A big thank you to everyone who took the time to apply. 
 
I genuinely appreciate the effort and thought that went into the applications. 
 
More from Gwion’s journey to come. 
Give him a follow and stay tuned

I am 47 today.
And rather than asking for anything, I wanted to give something.

I’ve decided to give one athlete 12 weeks of 1-2-1 online coaching through the Ryan Gibney Coaching Performance Scholarship.

I’ve had some really strong applications and I’ll be making the final decision tonight.

For me, the scholarship is about giving someone the opportunity to experience genuinely individualised coaching.

Not just being handed a programme.
Looking at where they are, what they’re trying to achieve, what’s currently limiting them, and working out what we need to do next

That’s coaching.

I’ll announce the winner tomorrow.

Applications close today.

And thanks for all the birthday messages.
Genuinely appreciated.

AI can write you a programme in 10 seconds. 
 
So why would you pay a coach? 
 
Because the programme isn’t the coaching. 
 
AI can give you exercises, sets, reps, running sessions and progressions. 
 
It can probably give you a decent programme too. 
 
But then real life happens. 
 
Your niggles start hurting. 
 
You sleep badly for a few nights. 
 
Work goes mental. 
 
Your recovery tanks. 
 
You smash a session you weren’t expecting to smash. 
 
You miss two sessions or they get cut short  
 
Or the programme that looked great on paper just isn’t working for you. 
 
Now what? 
 
That’s where coaching starts. 
 
A coach listens. 
Looks at what’s actually happening. 
 
Uses your feedback alongside your performance and history. 
 
Questions things. 
 
Makes decisions. 
 
Changes the plan when it needs changing. 
 
And sometimes tells you that the problem isn’t your programme. 
 
It’s you. 
 
That’s accountability. 
 
Not someone shouting “work harder”.or blowing smoke up blowing smoke up your arse 
 
Someone who knows what you’re trying to achieve and is willing to call you out when your actions aren’t matching your goals. 
 
There’s also something a programme doesn’t have. 
Skin in the game/real world experiance 
 
If I get something wrong, I don’t just generate another programme. 
 
I speak to you. 
 
Find out what happened. 
 
Fix it. 
 
Move forward. 
 
And yes, coaches make mistakes too 
 
We’re human. 
 
Good coaching isn’t about never being wrong. 
 
It’s about recognising when something isn’t working and having the experience to change it. 
 
I use AI. 
 
It’s a great tool. 
 
But there’s a difference between: 
 
“Here’s your programme.” 
and 
“Here’s what we’re doing, here’s why we’re doing it, and here’s what we’re going to change when real life gets in the way.” 
 
You’re not paying a coach for a PDF or a spreadsheet  or app access
 
You’re paying for the thinking behind it. 
 
The decisions. 
 
The adjustments. 
 
The accountability. 
 
The experience. 
 
The relationship. 
 
That’s coaching. 
Not just exercises ,sets and reps