DR ROBIN THORPE

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  • Performance Strategy AND Discovery

  • Sports Performance Leadership

  • Recovery, Readiness & Fatigue Management

  • Health & Performance Infrastructure Design and Development

Performance ScIENCE COACHING
& Strategic Advisor in Elite Sport

An experienced practitioner and performance leader with a proven track record in advancing high-performance athlete support, health optimisation, and strategic organisational outcomes across professional sport.

A highly detailed and effective human performance consultant and specialist insights advisor, working across international sport. Previously served as Director of Performance & Innovation within multi-sport and multi-club football ownership groups, and has supported Olympic athletes at the highest level.

Bridging science,
performance and leadership
Developed within an
elite sporting environment
World-leading expertise in
  recovery and performance

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Performance Strategy AND Discovery

Intimate collaboration with coaches, directors, and support staff to enhance leadership capability across your performance environment. Team dynamics knowledge acquired from high-stakes performance and health environments across multiple sports, leagues and cultures at the highest level. Through mentoring, workshops, and performance reviews, we embed principles of clarity, accountability, and team alignment. The result is a culture that consistently drives high standards, sporting excellence and sustained success.

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Sports Performance Leadership

Intimate collaboration with coaches, directors, and support staff to enhance leadership capability across your performance environment. Team dynamics knowledge acquired from high-stakes performance and health environments across multiple sports, leagues and cultures at the highest level. Through mentoring, workshops, and performance reviews, we embed principles of clarity, accountability, and team alignment. The result is a culture that consistently drives high standards, sporting excellence and sustained success.

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Recovery, Readiness & Fatigue Management

World-class approach integrating the latest in recovery science with practical solutions tailored to your sport, schedule, and athlete needs. Pragmatic and established research and innovation approaches to enhancing athlete preparedness performed by the world’s best athletes and teams. We help organizations build systems to monitor load and response, manage fatigue, and support athlete well-being. By reducing injury risk and promoting consistent readiness, you gain a critical edge in performance.

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Health & Performance Infrastructure Design and Development

From next-generation physical facility conceptualisation and planning to digital infrastructure and workflow design, we help create environments that support elite performance. We collaborate with architects, performance staff, and leadership to ensure infrastructure reflects and enables strategic goals. Whether building from scratch or refining existing systems, we guide development from concept through execution.

Where Elite Experience Meets Applied Science and Decision-Making

Prior to this, he spent a decade at Manchester United F.C. as Head of Recovery & Regeneration and Senior Performance Scientist & Coach, overseeing performance and medical recovery systems across the entire professional organisation. During this period, he contributed to a sustained era of success, achieving 10 national and international titles, while working alongside and learning from some of the most respected leaders in global sport.

Alongside his applied work, he completed a PhD and has published innovative research within elite sport environments, pushing the boundaries of athlete health surveillance, load monitoring, and performance benchmarking. His work bridges the gap between academic insight and real-world application, translating complex data into actionable strategies that inform decision-making at the highest level of sport.

Trusted by Partners

Post-exercise Recovery: Cooling and Heating, a Periodized Approach

Monitoring Fatigue Status in Elite Team-Sport Athletes: Implications for Practice

The Influence of Changes in Acute Training Load on Daily Sensitivity of Morning-Measured Fatigue Variables in Elite Soccer Players

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