Good coaching has boundaries.

Performance coaching

OXOLT provides coaching designed to support swimming performance, physical preparation, training consistency and related goals.

Our coaching is not a substitute for medical diagnosis, medical treatment or emergency healthcare.

Strength & conditioning and swimming coaching involve physical exercise and training. Programmes are designed around the information you provide and may be adapted where appropriate, but no training programme can eliminate the possibility of injury or guarantee a particular outcome.

You should tell us about relevant health conditions, injuries, medications, symptoms or other factors that could affect your ability to train safely.

Where something falls outside the scope of our coaching, we may recommend that you seek advice from an appropriate healthcare professional before continuing or progressing training.

Strength & conditioning

OXOLT strength & conditioning is swimming-specific performance coaching.

It may include resistance training, power development, conditioning, mobility, movement preparation and other forms of physical training.

The purpose of this service is to improve physical qualities relevant to swimming performance and training. It is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure medical conditions or injuries.

Training should be performed within your individual capabilities and in accordance with the guidance provided by your coach.

Swimming coaching

OXOLT swimming coaching provides training guidance, programming and performance support based on your goals, experience, events and available training environment.

Swimming coaching does not constitute medical advice, clinical assessment or treatment.

You remain responsible for following appropriate pool safety procedures and any rules or requirements of the swimming facility, club or organisation in which you train.

Nutrition support

OXOLT nutrition support is focused on performance nutrition, including areas such as fuelling, recovery, training nutrition and body composition where appropriate.

Nutrition guidance is provided within the qualifications and scope of the individual practitioner delivering the service.

OXOLT nutrition support is not a substitute for medical nutrition therapy, diagnosis or treatment of a medical condition.

If you have a diagnosed medical condition, complex nutritional requirements, an eating disorder, or another circumstance requiring clinical management, you should seek appropriate support from a suitably qualified healthcare professional.

Injury support

OXOLT injury support is intended to provide guidance around training, movement, rehabilitation considerations and return-to-training where appropriate.

The nature of this support depends on the qualifications and professional scope of the specialist providing it.

Injury support does not replace medical diagnosis, emergency care, imaging, surgery or other clinical treatment where these are required.

Where appropriate, we may recommend assessment or treatment from a GP, physiotherapist, osteopath, sports therapist, consultant or other suitably qualified healthcare professional.

If you experience a new, severe or rapidly worsening symptom, you should seek appropriate medical attention rather than relying on OXOLT injury support.

Scope of service

OXOLT services are provided within the qualifications, experience and professional scope of the individual practitioner delivering them.

Where a request, condition, injury or concern falls outside the appropriate scope of a service, the practitioner may decline to provide advice or modify the support being provided.

Where appropriate, OXOLT may recommend assessment, treatment or advice from a suitably qualified external healthcare or professional provider.

The fact that a service is available through OXOLT does not mean that every aspect of that service is appropriate for every individual or circumstance.

Your responsibility

You are responsible for providing accurate and complete information relevant to your participation, including relevant medical conditions, injuries, symptoms, medications and other circumstances that could reasonably affect your ability to participate safely.

OXOLT can only make appropriate coaching decisions based on information that has been provided to us.

You should keep OXOLT informed if your circumstances change during your service.

This includes significant changes to your health, medication, injury status, training environment or ability to exercise safely.

You should follow the advice and instructions provided by your relevant healthcare professionals where these apply to your training.

Changes in circumstances

If your health, injury status, medication or another relevant circumstance changes during your service, you should notify OXOLT before continuing with training where the change could affect your ability to participate safely.

Your programme or service may need to be reviewed, modified, paused or temporarily discontinued while appropriate information or professional advice is obtained.

If you are unsure whether you are medically fit to participate in exercise, you should seek appropriate medical advice before beginning or continuing training.

Modifying or pausing support

Your coach may modify, pause or discontinue an exercise, session or programme where they consider this appropriate within their professional scope.

OXOLT may also modify, pause or decline to provide a service where continuing would fall outside the appropriate scope of the service or may not be appropriate based on the information available to us.

Where a concern appears to require clinical assessment, we may recommend that you seek appropriate medical advice before continuing.

When training should stop

You should stop an exercise or training session if you experience symptoms that make continuing inappropriate or unsafe.

Depending on the circumstances, this may include significant pain, unusual or concerning symptoms, acute illness, injury or a significant change in your ability to complete the planned activity safely.

Your coach may also modify or stop an exercise where they believe this is appropriate within their professional scope.

Where a concern appears to require clinical assessment, you should seek appropriate medical advice.

OXOLT is not an emergency medical service.

For an emergency, serious injury or potentially life-threatening situation, contact the appropriate emergency service.

Your OXOLT performance team

OXOLT brings different specialists together around the swimmer.

The Performance Director helps coordinate the overall approach and keeps the wider performance picture in view. However, the Performance Director does not replace the professional responsibility or specialist expertise of the individual coach or practitioner delivering a service.

Each specialist provides support within their own qualifications, experience and professional scope.

Where appropriate and with the relevant permissions, information relevant to coordinating your OXOLT services may be shared between members of your OXOLT performance team in accordance with our Privacy Policy and the arrangements applicable to your service.

Specialist practitioners

Some OXOLT services may be delivered by specialist practitioners with expertise in a particular area of performance or support.

Each practitioner is responsible for delivering their service within their own qualifications, professional scope and applicable professional requirements.

The role of the Performance Director is to help coordinate the wider performance approach. It does not replace the professional responsibility of the specialist delivering an individual service.

Working alongside your healthcare team

OXOLT can work alongside your existing healthcare and professional support where appropriate.

If you are already working with a GP, consultant, physiotherapist, osteopath, sports therapist, dietitian or another healthcare professional, you should follow their clinical advice where it relates to your health.

Where appropriate and with the relevant permissions, information may be considered as part of your wider performance support.

No guaranteed results

OXOLT cannot guarantee a particular swimming time, competition result, strength level, body composition change, injury outcome or other performance result.

Performance is influenced by many factors, including training consistency, health, recovery, sleep, nutrition, competition conditions, previous training history and individual response to training.

Past results, testimonials and examples of client progress are not a guarantee of future results.

Our role is to provide informed, structured and individualised support designed to give you the best opportunity to progress.

Your consent and onboarding

Before beginning an applicable OXOLT service, you may be required to complete a PARQ, informed consent documentation or other onboarding information.

These documents help us understand your circumstances and establish whether the service is appropriate for you.

You are responsible for providing honest and accurate information.

Your PARQ and Informed Consent form part of the wider onboarding process and should be considered alongside this page and our Terms & Conditions.

If your circumstances change after onboarding, you should notify OXOLT so that your support can be reviewed where appropriate.