"One of British Sport's Foremost Research Scientists"

Greg is currently the Professor of Applied Sport and Exercise at Liverpool John Moores University. He has worked as a consultant physiologist for a large number of Olympic and professional sports including Liverpool and West Ham Football Club, Benetton Formula One Racing and the UK's Olympic triathlon, modern pentathlon and biathlon teams. His research for the British Olympic Association spans altitude training, pre-acclimatisation, exercise-induced asthma and supplement analysis and he is the Director of Acclimatisation Strategy for the GB team at the Summer and Winter Olympics.

Greg studied for his BSc (Hons) at Brunel University, completed his MSc in human performance in the USA, and completed his PhD in Sports Science at the University of Wolverhampton, where he was research co-ordinator. Greg has written two books, 'The Physiology of Training' and 'ABC of Sports and Exercise Medicine' and has published research extensively in the area of cardiovascular function in health and disease and performance physiology. He is currently writing this third book, a mainstream exercise book that is being published in Spring 2008.

An international modern pentathlete for 16 years, Greg competed in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games and won European bronze and world championship silver medals. Greg is also the honorary chairman for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young).

His TV credits include the 'Challenge of a Lifetime' strand on ITV1's 'This Morning' where he trained four viewers to swim the English Channel, 'Little Britain's Big Swim' on BBC1 which followed him coaching David Walliams to swim the Channel for Sport Relief - David swam an amazing time of just over 10 hours which puts him in the top 50 Channel swimmers of all time.

Greg has also worked on 'The Challenge' for BBC where he was the expert physiologist, training the contributors for a range of challenges including an endurance race in Borneo, a cycle race across America and a climb to the summit of Everest.