Meet Our Team
To give you a fully holistic service, we complement our own experience with that of trusted specialist practitioners.
We work alongside a multi-disciplinary team of experts to provide personalised strength training, health optimisation and lifestyle coaching,
to support you at every step of your journey.
Depending on your individual requirements we will help you to get help from the professionals you need.
Kriss Hendy - Head Coach
Kriss Hendy has been working within the endurance community for over 15 years now, studying, coaching, supporting (husband to an elite level athlete) and now helping other coaches and athletes within a mentoring and consulting capacity.
He is owner of Strength For Endurance, whose multi-disciplinary approach ensures athletes are employing a comprehensive approach to their endurance training; in order to overcome injury, prevent overtraining and keep doing what they love for many years to come.
When it comes to preparing for an endurance race or adventure, the training sessions are the easy bit. But what’s rarely considered is how this individual is going to integrate a high volume training program onto an already demanding work, family lifestyle. When someone is placing so much demand on their body physically, factors such as blood work and hormones, adequate fuelling, training load management, psychology and having a fundamental level of strength and conditioning are essential. From many years of professional and personal experience Kriss is passionate about raising the standard of coaching and education to the endurance community.
Sophie Tabor - Physiotherapist
Sophie is a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and Personal Trainer with 8 years’ experience helping people recover from injury and get back to what they love doing. She has worked with a range of athletes from rugby players, pentathletes, triathletes and runners.
Starting out as an NHS Physiotherapist, she then moved to private work in London, which included acute injury management rugby and work alongside a variety of strength and conditioning specialists developing her interest in getting athletes stronger and more resilient. She recently moved out of London and now works at a clinic in Wiltshire and remotely as a consultant for Strength For Endurance.
“A lot of the injuries I see are fully preventable and I am passionate about working with athletes to help them build a strong foundation and reduce the training errors that lead to recurrent injuries. Kriss and I are working together to help optimise performance, rehab journeys and longevity of athletes.”
In her spare time Sophie loves being on the trails or off on an adventure somewhere, mixing it up with trail running and triathlon events. After curiosity got the better of her she just completed her first ultra-marathon event.
Dan Dunford - SFE Coach
As part of the SFE Coaching team, Dan’s background in Sports Science & Coaching laid the foundation for his further interest in endurance coaching. He enjoys working with individuals on the finer details, building trust, and helping them achieve the challenges they have set for themselves. Personally he loves adventure and the overall challenge that sport brings. Living on the coast, watersports came naturally to him and it was his love of sea swimming that started his triathlon journey.
Dr. Ruth Wilde - Integrative & Functional Medicine Doctor
With a background in Emergency Medicine and General Practice alongside 17 years service in the military, Ruth now tailors her work more specifically to looking at the factors that underpin our individual experiences of health and wellness: genetics, lifestyle habits, energy imbalances and the link between the gut and brain to name a few.
Many of our clients work with Ruth to investigate areas such as their bloods, hormones and diet, which might be holding them back from optimal health and performance.
You can find out more about the work Dr. Ruth Wilde does at https://drruthwilde.com/
Niki Hurst - Specialist Pelvic Health Physiotherapist & Pilates
As a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist Niki is passionate about this supporting clients back to the activities and fitness levels they love, especially throughout and following pregnancy. Her knowledge and experience of the body enables clients to restore their confidence and take a measured and progressive approach to their rehab journey.
As a qualified APPI and Polestar Pilates instructor, Niki’s teaching compliments the training programmed by the rest of the team at Strength For Endurance, ultimately helping you get the most out ofd your body.
Find out more about Niki here: https://www.nikihurst.co.uk/
WHAT WE STAND FOR
It’s a long-held belief in the training community that pain is just part of the game; that we should be putting up with injuries, aches and daily pains as part of the pursuit of better performance.
However, pain can be a warning sign of a much bigger problem that’s just down the road. The reality of those niggling pains, or ignoring irregular or absent periods, can lead long term damage, bone stress fractures, REDs and even fertility issues for both men and women.
We’re here to change that.
As well as strength training, your hormone levels, blood-work and bone strength are all taken into account. By facilitating health and performance,
we aim to turn preconceptions on their head, and help you to listen to the warning signs before they can take effect.
We use strength and conditioning as a framework to teach the other elements needed for recovery: how to monitor and manage the amount of work you're doing, incorporate better nutrition, and integrate all of this into your lifestyle.
You can then apply this framework for the rest of your life.
“WE OPTIMISE YOUR TRAINING BY CONSIDERING THE VARIABLES YOU'RE NOT.”