Omniathlete Professional Mentorship
Omniathlete Professional Mentorship
Who the Mentorship is For
The programme is designed for strength and conditioning coaches, sport scientists, physiotherapists, athletic trainers, sports medicine practitioners and students who have completed their foundational education and want to develop a more integrated way of reasoning about performance.
It suits practitioners in three situations in particular. The first is those working in an applied environment who have access to testing technology but are unsure how to interpret and integrate the data they collect. The second is those who understand the individual components of training but struggle to organise them into a coherent plan across a season. The third is those who want to develop a specific area of expertise, such as speed development, isometric training, athlete monitoring or return to play, in greater depth than a course or a workshop allows.
The Omniathlete Professional Mentorship is a one-to-one education programme for practitioners who want to work through the problems they are actually facing, rather than follow a fixed syllabus. Each programme is built around the questions the participant brings, and the content is agreed before the first session.
How the Mentorship Works
Every programme begins with a scoping conversation in which the participant describes their working context, the athletes or teams they support, the technology available to them and the problems they want to address. From that conversation we agree the topics for the sessions.
Sessions are delivered live over Zoom and last two and a half hours each. They are conversations rather than lectures: material is presented where it is needed, but the majority of the time is spent working through the participant's own cases, data and programmes. Participants are encouraged to bring their own testing data, training plans and video, which are examined and discussed directly during the session.
The longer programmes include coaching support between sessions, so that decisions taken during a session can be reviewed once they have been applied in practice.
Mentorship Programmes
One week, two online sessions of two and a half hours each. Suited to practitioners who want to work through a single well-defined question, such as the interpretation of force plate data or the structure of an in-season strength phase. Priced at €300.
One month, eight online sessions of two and a half hours each, with coaching support between sessions. Suited to practitioners who want to review and rebuild an area of their practice rather than address a single question. Regular price €1,200, currently €960.
Two weeks, four online sessions of two and a half hours each. Allows a topic to be developed across several sessions, with time between them to apply what has been discussed. Regular price €600, currently €450.
Three months, fifteen online sessions of two and a half hours each, coaching support throughout, and three days in person at our office in Italy. The in-person days are spent on hands-on work with the testing technologies available at the facility, and coaching practices on the field with our athletes. Priced at €3,000.
What We Work On
The content of each programme is agreed with the participant. The areas most frequently requested include the design and periodization of strength and speed development programmes; the selection, interpretation and integration of testing data; athlete monitoring and the assessment of readiness and recovery; the use of isometric and plyometric methods; return to play decision-making after injury; and the practical application of sports technology within a performance department.
The common thread across all of these is an emphasis on reasoning rather than protocols. The aim is not to provide a set of methods to apply, but to develop the ability to decide which method is appropriate in a given context, and to recognise when the available data does not support a decision at all.
About Antonio Robustelli
Antonio Robustelli is the founder of Omniathlete and an international high performance consultant working all over the world since 23+ years across sport science, sports medicine, and strength & conditioning.
His applied work spans individual athletes, including competitors at the last five Olympic Games, and professional teams in soccer, basketball, rugby and baseball, in Europe, Asia and the United States. He is a regular Keynote and invited speaker at international conferences around the globe in sport science and sports medicine.
His approach treats athletic performance as the product of interacting systems — neuromuscular, biomechanical, biochemical, neural and psycho-physiological — rather than as a set of qualities to be developed in isolation.
Alongside consulting, he serves as Faculty Member and Programme Leader at the National Institute of Sports in India (SAI-NSNIS) and delivers continuing professional development for performance and medical departments internationally. The mentorship programmes are the reflection of his philosophy of work: rather than following a fixed curriculum, they address the specific questions a practitioner brings from their own working environment.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a specific qualification to take part?
No formal qualification is required, but the programme assumes a working knowledge of training theory and physiology. It is designed for practitioners and advanced students rather than as an introduction to the field.
Can the topics be decided after the programme has started?
The main topics are agreed before the first session so that the material can be prepared, but the direction can be adjusted between sessions as questions emerge from the work.
Are the sessions recorded?
Recording arrangements are agreed individually before the programme begins.
Can a team or department book a programme together?
Group education for performance and medical departments is delivered through the Staff Education and CPD service, which is designed for that purpose and can be delivered on site.
How do I book?
All four programmes can be purchased directly from the store. For questions about which programme is appropriate, or to discuss an arrangement not listed here, use the contact form.