Tom Farrow is a performance coach and rugby combat consultant. He is the owner of Areté Performance (http://www.arete-performance.com/), a sports performance and personal training company based in London. Tom worked for Wasps RFC for the past 3 years as a strength and conditioning coach, both with their senior team and more recently with the academy. Tom has also consulted as a combat coach (applying wrestling techniques to rugby) for Wasps, England Sevens and England Women’s rugby, as well as various other clubs and schools in London and the surrounding Home Counties. Tom has recently taken on a position with Speedworks as a Performance Coach, working under renowned sprint specialist Jonas Dodoo. Speedworks oversee the training of some of the country’s fastest sprinters as well as World and Olympic champion long jumper Greg Rutherford. Tom has also recently been appointed the UK Director of the International Strength and Conditioning Institute, a newly born, educational association that promotes sensible, evidence based sport training methodology as well as bridges the gap between science and practice.

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