Jim Ashworth-Beaumont
Qualifications
- UK Athletics certified Coach in Running Fitness
- Freelance REPS Level 3 Personal Trainer/Instructor - endurance conditioning specialist
- State-registered Senior Orthotist at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
- MSc, PhD in the fields of neuro-rehabilitation and motor skills rehabilitation
- Formally trained expert in whole-body biomechanical analysis and multimodal rehab approaches
Experience and Achievements
Jim is interested in the big picture: as a healthcare and fitness industry multi-disciplinarian, his overarching commitment is to help competitive, recovering and fixed-impairment individuals achieve their stated functional goals by delivering interventions based on a sound understanding of the presenting athlete’s current condition and net benefits of the process towards achievement of clearly stated training objectives.
As a Personal Trainer and UKA accredited running coach he is commissioned to carry out comprehensive assessment of fitness, technique, training history and motivational approach. The focus is always on addressing the client’s stated objective, whether it be the quest for a new PB, the capacity to operate in a novel or extreme environment or find the solution to a chronic injury problem. The outcome of his analysis is most usually an evidence-based event-specific physical development plan, with the emphasis on technical refinement and physical preparation to support event-specific improvement and minimise injury risk or recurrence over the long term
Jim has also worked as an HCPC-registered NHS Senior Orthotist (specialist in the design and prescription of Orthotic devices) for approaching 20 years. This specialty involves the analysis of movement problems, identification of complex functional issues experienced by clients across the full spectrum of ability from acute spinal cord injured to Olympic and Paralympic athlete, and treatment via externally applied devices within the overall multi-disciplinary plan. He works autonomously and also within specialist multidisciplinary teams, both within the NHS and privately. His philosophy here is to apply orthotic intervention sparingly, where it is required at all, and to recommend treatment approaches in the best interests of the client supported by extensive multidisciplinary knowledge at postgraduate level.
Jim is keen to apply his academic interests to the development of solutions: on the adaptation of physiology, biomechanics and psychology to endurance across sporting and performance environments, in healthy and impaired states. He has extensive multidisciplinary knowledge at postgraduate level where he has gained an MSc and PhD researching the refinement of sensorimotor skills and associated central nervous system changes in healthy and CNS-impaired persons.
His own training background encompasses over 40 years in successful competitive endurance sport including road, cross-country, hill/mountain running and triathlon which continues to the present day. He served in the Corps of Royal Marines & UK Land Forces in a number of interesting roles and locations, specialising in long-range reconnaissance (ISTAR), and also has qualifications and experience in electronic/electronic engineering, telecommunications and retail management.