Cornwall High Performance

Cornwall High Performance Youth strength & conditioning in Truro for ages 10–16. Fit Strong Healthy coaching for adults 45+. Co-owned by Rob Smaldon and Sam Guy

Safe, coach-led training to build strength, confidence and long-term health. Cornwall High Performance is a company offering an integrated approach to Strength and Conditioning. CHP delivers high level training and soft tissue therapy to a wide range of amateur athletes and general population in Cornwall. Whatever your sport is, training with CHP will enhance your movement, strength, power and all round athletic performance.

06/09/2026

Getting older does not mean you have to accept feeling less capable.

Strength training is not just about the gym. It is about staying able to do the things that make everyday life easier and more enjoyable.

Carrying your own shopping. Walking up the stairs. Getting down on the floor with the grandkids and getting back up again. Gardening, travelling, moving with confidence and continuing to live life on your terms.

These things do not suddenly become important when they become difficult. They are built over time.

Building strength does not need to mean training like an athlete or spending hours in a gym. The aim is simply to keep your body capable of supporting the life you want to live.

Small, consistent strength training can make a real difference over the years. The best time to start is before you feel like you have to.

03/09/2026

Padel might be social, but your body is still stopping, turning, reaching and reacting.

Getting older does not mean you have to stop playing. It simply means your training should support the way you want to live, move and enjoy your sport.

At Fit, Strong and Healthy, we help people aged 45+ build strength and confidence for the activities they love.

Don’t let age sideline you.

Book a free 15-minute chat via the link in our bio.

14/07/2026

The off-season is a gift most young athletes don’t use.

No games. No fixtures. No pressure. Just time — and what you do with it.

This is the window where the real work happens. Strength. Power. Speed. Movement quality. The physical foundations that carry over into every sport when the season starts again.

Most young athletes spend the summer resting. The ones who don’t? They come back in September and nobody can live with them.

If your child plays football, rugby, netball, hockey, athletics — any sport at all — the off-season isn’t downtime. It’s the opportunity to close the gap on the athletes ahead of them, or extend the gap on the ones behind.

You don’t need to train every day. You don’t need to go mad. But doing something structured, coached, and progressive over the next six to eight weeks will make a genuine difference when it matters.

We’ve got two ways to help right now.

The Summer Speed Academy — 11 coached sessions at Truro Cricket Club, 28 July to 1 September. A handful of spaces left on Session 2 (10–11am). Link in bio to book.

Child to Champion — our year-round youth S&C programme in Truro for ages 10–16. Still spaces available. Book a £20 trial session, fully redeemable against membership. Link in bio.

Don’t waste the window. 🏃

07/07/2026

The worst advice given to anyone over 45?

“Go light. Protect your joints. Stick to cardio.”

Sounds sensible. But it’s the reason your knees ache on the stairs and your back twinges every time you pick something up.

Your joints don’t need wrapping in cotton wool. They need the muscles around them to be strong enough to do their job.

Heavy, controlled strength training builds bone density, armours your joints, and keeps your body functioning the way it should — not light weights and wishful thinking.

If you’re over 45 and want to actually get stronger (not just go through the motions), we coach adults every day at our private facility in Truro.

Link in bio to book a free phone consultation.

06/07/2026

Speed is the one physical quality that transfers into every sport.

Football. Rugby. Netball. Hockey. Athletics. Cross country. It doesn’t matter what your child plays — if they can move faster, they perform better. Simple as that.

The problem is most young athletes never actually get coached on how to run faster. They practise their sport, they train hard, but the mechanics — the shin angle, the foot landing, the acceleration posture, the hip position — nobody ever breaks that down for them.

That’s exactly what we do at the Summer Speed Academy.

11 sessions. Tuesdays and Thursdays. 28 July to 1 September at Truro Cricket Club.

Every session is structured and progressive — we start with mobility and movement work, build into acceleration and top speed mechanics, work through specific sprint drills, and then put athletes into races and timed runs with electronic timing gates so they can see exactly how much faster they’re getting.

It’s coached. Not just practised. There’s a big difference.

Session 1 sold out in days. We pulled a second session (10–11am) and we’re now down to around 10 spaces on that.

Once they’re gone, that’s it. We can’t add a third session.

£209 for the full 11-session course. Ages 10–16.

If your child is in their off-season and you want them to come back in September genuinely faster — link in bio to book.

This one means a lot to us. 🏅Ben joined us at 12. Tall, gangly — his mum Helen’s words, not ours — little core strength ...
23/06/2026

This one means a lot to us. 🏅

Ben joined us at 12. Tall, gangly — his mum Helen’s words, not ours — little core strength and struggling with coordination. He was a kid who wanted to get better but didn’t quite know how yet.

What happened over the next 3 and a half years is why we do this.

Consistent work. Session after session. Strength and conditioning, speed clinics, learning to move properly and trust his body. Ben put the effort in every single time.

And the results speak for themselves. County Championships at 200m, 300m and shot put. Cornwall Schools 200m champion. 4th at the South West Regionals under 17s. And this week — selected to represent Cornwall Schools at the National Championships in Birmingham.

But honestly, the medals aren’t even the bit we’re most proud of.

It’s the confidence. The kid who came in unsure of himself leaving as someone who backs himself to compete at the highest level. Who joined an athletics club, started racing, and found out what he’s actually capable of.

His big love is rugby, and that work has shown up there too.

Ben — we’re incredibly proud of you. Go and enjoy Birmingham. You’ve earned it. 🙌

This is what Child to Champion is about. Not just the elite. Every young athlete who’s willing to do the work.

30/05/2026

Our Stronger After 45 workshop is running on Saturday 6th June, 9–10am at our facility in Truro.

We’ll cover what’s actually happening to your body as you get older, why strength training is the single most important thing you can do about it, and you’ll get a full walkthrough of our Fit, Strong & Healthy programme — including live demonstrations so you can see exactly how we train.

£25 per person, fully redeemable against your membership if you decide to join us.

If you’ve been curious about what we do, this is an easy way to come and find out.

Link in bio to book your spot.

26/05/2026

Female athletes are up to 8x more likely to suffer an ACL injury than their male counterparts.

That’s not a small gap. And for most young female athletes, it’s a risk they don’t even know exists.

The reasons are well documented — hormonal differences, wider Q-angle, different landing mechanics, and crucially, a lack of structured strength and conditioning work during the years when it matters most.

The good news? It’s not inevitable.

Proper S&C training — building hip strength, improving landing mechanics, developing body control under fatigue — directly reduces ACL injury risk. We know this. The research is clear.

The problem is most young female athletes aren’t getting it. They’re playing sport, going to training, working hard — but nobody is addressing the physical foundations that keep them on the pitch.

That’s exactly what we do at Child to Champion.

If your daughter plays sport, this is worth watching. 👆

He came in wanting to lose weight. He left winning competitions. In his 50s.Wes joined FSH at 85kg, not sure if he could...
24/05/2026

He came in wanting to lose weight. He left winning competitions. In his 50s.

Wes joined FSH at 85kg, not sure if he could really change things at this stage of life. 15kg down, stronger than he’s ever been, and last weekend he won his Masters category in Enduro mountain biking.

Here’s what he said:
“I’ve achieved a level I never thought possible.”

“You think you know how to lose weight and eat healthily, but this was a real eye-opener. It’s been a proper education — something that can be maintained and repeated long term.”

“The programme is clearly personalised and tailored to my current fitness level and future goals.”

Wes didn’t just lose weight. He got fitter, more capable, and it transferred directly into the thing he loves most — riding his bike harder, longer, and better than before.

That’s what strength training in your 50s actually looks like. Not just numbers on a scale. Real performance. Real life improvements. Real confidence.

Structured. Personalised. Progressive. No guesswork.

If you’ve been thinking about making a change, the link’s in our bio.

📍 Truro
🔗 Book your free phone consultation.

19/05/2026

What does a typical FSH session actually look like?

No mirrors. No intimidation. No one watching you.

Just a small group of like-minded adults, all on the same journey — and your coach.

Here’s how it runs:

First 10 minutes — mobility and movement prep. Getting your body ready to work, not just jumping straight in.

Then we move into power and strength work — tailored to YOU based on your individual profiling. Not a generic plan. Not what the person next to you is doing. Work designed around the qualities you need to improve your day-to-day life.

We finish with targeted accessory work — single leg strength, upper body, core — building the foundations that keep you moving well for years to come.

Every session. Every week. Consistent, structured, progressive.

This is what strength training should look like after 45.

📍 Truro
🔗 Link in bio to book your free consultation

Address

Unit 4, Cathedral Compound, Heron Way
Truro
TR12XN

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 9pm
Tuesday 7am - 9pm
Wednesday 7am - 9pm
Thursday 7am - 9pm
Friday 7am - 9pm
Saturday 7am - 9pm
Sunday 7am - 9pm

Telephone

+447855315710

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