Chris freebury
weightlifting coach
Loughborough University – BSc Sport and Exercise Science
Sheffield Hallam University – MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Science
British Weightlifting – Level 2 Club Coach
Sports massage academy – Accredited sports massage therapist
Chris has been an international weightlifter for 16 years and has represented GB at multiple European and World championships, as well as England on multiple occasions including the 2010 and 2014 commonwealth games.
Chris has 15 years of experience coaching weightlifting specifically and 11 years as a strength and conditioning coach. He heads up all of our weightlifting programmes, is head weightlifting coach at blueprint training Worcester and specialises in strength and conditioning for sports performance.
Chris has delivered weightlifting and strength and conditioning consultancy to Olympic, paralympic and commonwealth medallists and other international level athletes from a variety of sports including weightlifting, powerlifting, water polo, volleyball, athletics, swimming, American football, rugby league, basketball and table tennis.
Chris has extensive experience delivering as an associate lecturer for strength and conditioning and sport and exercise science and has previously been a course tutor for British weightlifting.
Most recently Chris has teamed up with Craig Richey to improve his weaknesses and coached him to victory at the 2022 British Weightlifting Championships using both the Strength and Technical bias weightlifting programme methodologies.