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Fit for Work and Resilient Performance
14th and 15th October 2026
We hope you found this event of value, where we provided a combination of services including resilience and exercise presentations. As you will have learnt on the day, our health and wellbeing is multifactorial and these factors interlink. Meaning different aspects of our wellbeing can have a positive or negative affect on other aspects too, dependent on our lifestyle and behaviours.
If you would like signposting to more in-depth reading on any aspect of what you may have discussed, please don't hesitate to ask. There isn't one book which pulls all our content together but there are great specialists out there on parts of it. We have compiled our own resources to try and help and these are explained further below together with links you can use to access them.
Please contact jo@7futures.com if you would like any further explanation or support. All enquiries are treated as confidential.
Olympic Lifting for Better Movement & Safer Work -- Slips, Trips & Falls – Proprioception and Balance -- Building and Maintaining Mental & Physical Stress Resilience -- Building Physical Capacity: Functional Fitness for the Job and for Life -- Body Composition Analysis --
Olympic Lifting for Better Movement & Safer Work -- Slips, Trips & Falls – Proprioception and Balance -- Building and Maintaining Mental & Physical Stress Resilience -- Building Physical Capacity: Functional Fitness for the Job and for Life -- Body Composition Analysis --
Olympic Lifting for Better Movement & Safer Work with Aidan Syers
Olympic lifting is built around moving heavy loads efficiently and without injury: the biomechanics are tried, tested and directly transferable. The 45-minute session with Aidan applied those principles to the kind of lifting and loading that features in everyday life, building the core strength and movement quality that protect you over the long term. Practical, hands-on, and useful whether you’re at work or away from it.
Aidan Syers is a Sports Performance Coach and Sports Scientist from Loughborough University who specialises in developing speed, power, and conditioning in elite athletes, combining applied coaching expertise with a strong scientific foundation.
He has coached numerous international athletes across a range of sports, including football and boxing, with experience supporting players from clubs such as Manchester United, Chelsea, and Bayern Munich.
As an international sprinter who has represented England and Great Britain, Aidan also brings lived experience of elite sport to his work. His background includes four seasons as a Sports Scientist at Crystal Palace FC, and he currently serves as Head of Sports Science at Unique Football Academy in London.
Functional Fitness with Henry Cleminson
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Modern working patterns often reduce the amount of useful movement people get, with many of us spending more time sitting than our bodies are designed for. But being active at work isn't the same as having the physical capacity to cope with it. Manual handling means repeated lifting, carrying, twisting, reaching and working in awkward positions, and tolerating that takes genuine physical capability, not just good technique. The 45-minute session with Henry used functional fitness principles to build that capacity, because someone who is physically fitter is typically far less susceptible to injury. It promoted:
Improved Posture: Reduce the risk of musculoskeletal issues.
Enhanced Mobility: Increase ease of movement and flexibility.
Improved Energy Levels: Feel more alert and engaged during daily tasks.
These benefits carry beyond the session itself. Individually, you’ll notice the difference in how you move and feel. As a team, people who are physically more comfortable tend to be more focused and consistent.
Henry Cleminson is a former UK martial arts champion and was the coach to UFC world champion, Leon Edwards.Using his sports science degree and close relationships with other elite sports coaches he has developed his own functional integrated training and high intensity interval training programmes. These transformative programmes are central to his CoreFit Academy and to our own workplace wellbeing services. His resistance bands expertise is exceptional and is currently being used to support workers at the British Antarctic Base.
Above is a series of resistance band based workouts, led and designed by Henry. Click to view.
Slips, Trips & Falls: Proprioception and Balance with Henry Cleminson
Slips, trips and falls are among the most persistent risks in any manual handling environment, and avoiding them takes more than technique and strength. It comes down to how quickly your brain and body communicate, the proprioception and balance that let you react and self-correct without thinking. Those senses dull with age, inactivity or an old injury, and that's when people fall. The session with Henry sharpened that coordination and reaction, reducing fall risk and helping you move with greater confidence and control, on demanding ground and beyond it.
It focused on:
Sharper proprioception: Train the body to sense changes in position and load and correct itself faster, the reaction that stops a stumble becoming a fall.
Balance under load: Build postural control while carrying awkward loads across uneven ground and around obstacles, where it matters most.
Resilience after injury: Rebuild the sensory awareness an old injury quietly blunts, protecting against repeat incidents.
Coordination that lasts the shift: Hold movement quality as fatigue sets in, when the risk of a slip or trip climbs on long and night shifts.
Building and Maintaining Mental & Physical Stress Resilience with Nathan Douglas
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Building and maintaining mental and physical stress resilience requires a deliberate blend of evidence-based practices that strengthen body and mind: regular aerobic and resistance exercise to enhance physiological coping and reduce inflammation; prioritised sleep hygiene to restore cognitive function and emotional regulation; structured routines and time management to reduce decision fatigue; mindfulness and cognitive reappraisal techniques to shift stress appraisals and increase psychological flexibility; social connection and supportive workplace culture to buffer stress responses; and targeted training in problem-solving and recovery strategies (including paced rest and active breaks) to prevent chronic strain. Integrating these elements into personalised, sustainable habits—supported by organisational policies that enable reasonable workloads, clear roles and access to early support—creates a resilient foundation that preserves performance, reduces injury and illness risk, and promotes long-term wellbeing.
As a double Olympic athlete, 8 x GB champion and Team GB captain, Nathan brings lived experience of exceptional and consistent performance under pressure. He works equally well with senior leaders and frontline operational teams and receives excellent feedback for his technical expertise and down-to-earth, energising style.
Nathan has delivered resilience, performance and motivation training for major rail, engineering, construction, energy and financial services organisations. Teams trust him because he speaks openly about performance struggles, recovery, setbacks and staying operationally sharp: helping people connect elite-sport lessons to the realities of shift work, project delivery and high-risk roles.
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Body Composition Analysis
Body Composition Analysis using a Tanita machine is a quick, non-invasive method of assessing an individual’s overall body composition and health status. The machine uses bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) to estimate key measurements such as body weight, body fat percentage, muscle mass, visceral fat, body water, and basal metabolic rate (BMR). These results provide a more detailed picture of health and fitness than body weight alone. By analysing the measurements, individuals can identify areas for improvement, set realistic health and fitness goals, and monitor changes in body composition over time. Regular assessments can also help evaluate the effectiveness of exercise and nutrition programmes and support informed decisions about maintaining a healthy lifestyle.