national institutes of sport

• what is the English Institute of sport

  the EIS is a national institute of sport which has a network of high performance centres across England providing a range of services to elite performers.
• The EIS and UK sport

  The EIS is a subsidiary of UK sport and wholly owned by that organisation. It receives £40 million over four years from UK sport and generates its own income by providing services to NGBs such as performance analysis and sports medicine. E.g., in 2012 London Olympics NGBs invested £6.1 million in EIS services to help and support elite performer development.
• EIS and elite athletes

  The EIS is UK Sport’s science, medicine and technology arm (e.g., via research and innovation programme), which acts as the team behind many of Team GB’s most successful Olympians and Paralympians. Its job is to increase the probability of a potential elite athlete being successful by providing a range of different services to improve their health, fitness, training and preparation
• EIS and sporting services

  EIS operates World Class Performance environments via no. of high performance centres, & numerous other training bases across England. Partner sites include the Team GB Intensive Rehabilitation Unit at Bisham Abbey, as well as the Holme Pierrepont National Water sports Centre in Nottingham.
• EIS pt 2 - how do the institutes help to improve performance

  staff work with high level coaches & NGBs performance directors to help improve the performance of their best athletes, by delivering range of services to enable them to optimise training programmes and maximise performance in competition (e.g., performance lifestyle programmes