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Sport Dimensions on BBC Sport Academy

The BBC Sport Academy has teamed up with speed coach Mike Antoniades to deliver a programme online, aimed at helping everyone to become as quick as professional athletes. Underway since October 2002, Mike has devised a simple programme which will feature in eight sessions on BBC Interactive s leading Sport Academy site over the coming months.

The Times, Tuesday 19 October 2004 - Rejuvenated Perry given new lease of life by faithful Bath

"Perry, still only 27 and the most-capped England player in his position (36 caps between 1997 and 2001), has spent the past month in west London, learning to run backwards in order to take his career forwards.

"When he arrived his shoulders were hunched, his head down, he didn't talk much," Mike Antoniades,performance and rehabilitation director at the Sport Dimensions clinic at Stamford Brook, said. "Now he can see the future."

The Telegraph, 16 September 2005 - Sanderson just happy to be on the field

"There will be no favours when the Sanderson brothers pack down against each other this afternoon at Sixways even though Worcester's Pat, the elder, knows better than anyone the acute misery Saracens' Alex has undergone in the past 18 months.
"One step from the scrapheap, really," said Alex, 26 next month, who has had two vertebrae fused in his neck and a couple of slipped discs in his back, the latest of which persuaded two London specialists that his rugby career was well and truly over.
"I was clutching at straws when I rang Matt Perry at Bath, who had had similar back problems, and he put me on to this brilliant bloke, Mike Antoniades. He's essentially, a speed and conditioning coach and he's done a fantastic job. No operation, no injections, just great advice, a lot of sweat and a bit of luck and here I am, feeling very blessed even to be able to lace a pair of boots."

Daily Express - Sport Dimensions is "one of the best kept Secrets in Sports!"

One Centre dedicated to scientific exploration of athletes is beginning to produce impressive results. Sport Dimensions owned by Mike Antoniades is working on revolutionary training programmes and former Olympic Sprinter Ade Mafe, who is part of the conditioning team at Chelsea, said: "It is one of the best kept secrets in sport"!
Antoniades said: "Many teams are five to ten years behind other countries in using different training methodologies. A vast majority believe running their players to death in pre-season training will prepare them for the for the league programme."
He added "some clubs were sceptical about sending their players to us because what we do is unknown to them. But now we work alongside some of cream of the Premiership and First Division.
"Speed is a skill imperative to all sports, and like any other skill it can be improved. It is a fallacy to believe that you need to be big or have the right genetic make-up to be fast"

Rugby World - "How Frappier means happier"

The Americans are again setting the standards for all things sport-scientific. Fortunately, however, like most things in life they soon find their way across the Atlantic. The latest example is the Frappier Acceleration Sports Training System.
It is unique to Sport Dimensions' Performance & Rehabilitation Centre in Chiswick West London. London Irish's Matt Cannon has, since using the system, worked himself into the England sevens squad and the London Irish Team: " My footwork and explosive speed have really improved." He says.
Cannon's running style was videoed and studied and then a training programme was designed to improve his acceleration, reaction time and anaerobic fitness.

Running Fitness, Issue Twenty, August 2001

Your Rock Solid Guarantee To Run Faster….
"The Frappier System provides the environment in which professional and recreational athletes can improve their strength, power and running biomechanics, you can strive for greater speed; it removes some of the limitations imposed by normal track or sports field workouts. It's your Rock Solid Guarantee to Run faster."

Daily Mirror, Friday, January 17, 2003

British number 1 Henman endured weeks of intensive rehabilitation at the Sport Dimensions Gym in west London. Fitness guru Mike Antoniades spent two hours every day working with Henman on the damaged shoulder that forced an early exit from last year's US Open and his withdrawal from the Australian Open.
His work in the Gym also included a new revolutionary Training system called Frappier Acceleration. It is designed to develop the body's "fast twitch" muscles which improve reflexes speed and recovery times.
Antoniades said: "We've done a complete rehabilitation on his shoulder from a week after surgery and he's now got more power, has changed his service action and has also developed the muscle groupings in his shoulder."

Peak Performance Issue 169, August 2002

"The Frappier system does offer real potential for speed enhancement, having taken speed and power development theory from around the world and quantified it into a systematic methodology."

Running Fitness Issue 32, August 2002

Avoid Injury, Run Faster….

"Its time to take a deep breath, and go back to the beginning. Its time to look afresh at the building blocks of your running- your Biomechanics…learn how to get fitter and how to avoid injury. To learn more about improving your running efficiency contact Speed Coach Mike Antoniades who works with elite sprinters and professional Soccer and Rugby players.

BBC Sport Academy

"Speed coach Mike Antoniades was behind the incredible recovery and he tells the Academy just how they did it.
"I work with football clubs Chelsea and Ipswich, as well as the British Olympic bobsleigh team, but this was my first time with Tim. What he did up at Birmingham was brilliant, especially considering all the effort he went through to get fit.
But Tim's great to work with. He does everything you tell him to do, and a whole lot more.
He had been suffering with a sore right shoulder for a number of weeks. This can be caused by playing lots of tennis without enough rest or by overstretching the muscles during a game...""

Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle, Thursday, December 20, 2001

"Under an arrangement with a number of West London schools and the blues academy, a group of potential internationals will swap soggy games fields and a scramble for a ball amongst 20 schoolmates and train in a Specialised Performance Centre in West London. Sport Dimensions at Stamford Brook has the task of making Chelsea's boys faster and fitter in a revolutionary speed programme."
Leap into the big league ……. "

Jason Commissiong, 18, from Thames Valley Harriers (TVH)……. has been working out with elite Coach Mike Antoniades on the American-based Frappier Acceleration programme. Antoniades said: 'Jason can reach 7.50 (in the long jump), but it involves power weights work. At the moment the most important thing is improving his speed and he has improved his BP 7 times in three months.'"

ICONS Player Newsletter, December 2002

"Do you want to be quicker, more agile and more powerful as a player? If so a unique fitness programme developed by SPORT DIMENSIONS can help give you that vital edge over opponents."

Don Hutchinson "West Ham sent me down to Sport Dimensions when I was stepping up my rehabilitation and they were pretty impressed with the results. I only spent a couple of weeks on their programme but it was extremely beneficial"

Cherno Samba "I trained at Sport Dimensions during the summer break and it did me the world of good. My speed and strength improved dramatically, so much so that all the coaches at Millwall couldn't believe it when I came back do fit! I'd recommend it to any young player who wants to improve the physical side of their game."

Ade Akinbiyi "I had a serious knee injury last season that should really have kept me out for almost a year, but the rehab work I've done a Sport Dimensions has helped put me months ahead of schedule. It's hard work but the strength in my knee and in my other muscles has improved dramatically. If you've had a bad injury and are looking to get the best rehab possible - you should go to see Mike and the crew down in Chuot

Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle, Thursday, September 26, 2002

"Sport Dimensions uses the American Frappier Acceleration System as part of a rehabilitation programme for injured sportspersons and it was working for (Tim) Henman almost straight away."

Kensington & Chelsea News, Thursday February 14, 2002

"A small West London gym (Sport Dimensions) has saved injured Jesper Gronkjaer's bid for a World Cup place. The stricken Chelsea star hasn't played since September 16 last year and time was running out for the Danish forward since undergoing a knee operation in October. However, this week for the first time in three months, Gronkjaer trained with the first-team squad after a gruelling 12 days of double sessions at Sport Dimensions, working with Strength & Speed Guru Mike Antoniades."