About Abraham Spring

Founder, Head Coach, Strategic Consultant & Content Creator

Recovery-Led Performance Methodology

Abraham Spring has developed the UK's first recovery-led performance methodology, fundamentally restructuring how athletes approach sustainable development. Where traditional training treats recovery as optional post-training management, Abraham's approach positions recovery as the structural foundation from which all performance emerges.

R.A.C.E. Protocol: System, Not Program

The R.A.C.E. framework (Recover, Align, Condition, Execute) isn't a training programme: it's a performance system. Traditional programmes deliver progressive overload protocols. Systems deliver the infrastructure that makes sustained progression possible without extraction.

This distinction matters because sustainable performance requires more than periodisation. It requires integration across multiple domains that traditional coaching fragments or ignores entirely.

The Layers Beneath Triathlon

Triathlon is the visible tip of Abraham's methodology. The depth lies in what makes triathlon performance sustainable:

Strength & Conditioning Infrastructure – Not supplementary work, but foundational capacity that determines whether triathlon training builds or depletes the athlete.

Mindfulness Integration – Not performance optimisation through meditation, but contemplative practice that fundamentally changes an athlete's relationship to training, discomfort, and progression.

Cognitive Pattern Recognition – Understanding what actually drives training decisions. Whether athletes are building capacity or proving something. How thinking patterns shape training sustainability.

Psychological Foundation – What's pushing someone to train? What fuel are they running on? What happens when you remove guilt-based motivation and build from different foundations?

Abraham doesn't coach triathlon with recovery added on. He coaches human performance where triathlon becomes the expression, and recovery is the foundation that allows S&C, mindfulness, cognitive work, and psychological development to integrate into sustainable athletic capacity.

This is why recovery-led training requires an ecosystem, not just coaching.

Athletic Foundation: Over 20 Years of Competitive Experience

Abraham's methodology is built on direct competitive experience across multiple disciplines:

Multi-Sport Competitive Background:

  • Football

  • Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

  • Wrestling

  • Triathlon

  • Track and Field

  • Cross Country

This isn't recreational participation. This is competitive-level experience across combat sports and endurance disciplines that taught Abraham how different training systems work, where they conflict, what actually transfers across domains, and what extraction-based training costs when you push it far enough.

Contemplative Practice Foundation

Over 100 days of vipassana meditation training across multiple years, creating deep integration of contemplative practice with athletic performance. This combination (serious competitive background across combat and endurance sports paired with extensive contemplative training) allows Abraham to work effectively with both the psychological and physical dimensions of performance.

The contemplative foundation isn't biographical detail. It's methodological infrastructure. It's what allows Abraham to see patterns in athletic development that performance-obsessed coaching misses entirely.

Coaching Experience: Over a Decade, Hundreds of Athletes Across the Full Spectrum

Abraham has worked with:

Complete Beginners to World-Level Competitors:

  • Toddlers learning fundamental movement patterns and body awareness

  • SEND athletes requiring specialised programming, communication, and support structures

  • Adults overcoming water phobia and fear-based barriers to complete their first triathlon

  • Non-weak swimmers progressing to Blenheim Triathlon completion

  • Age-group athletes developing systematically from sprint distance to Ironman completion

  • Competitive athletes progressing to world championship level across multiple disciplines

  • Athletes processing trauma, fear, and deep psychological barriers while maintaining training progression

This range matters. Working across this spectrum (from toddlers to world champions) teaches you what's fundamental versus what's contextual. What principles hold when you're teaching a child to swim and refining technique with a championship-level competitor. The methodological depth comes from knowing what actually works when you strip away the performance theatre.

Technical Depth: Biomechanics, S&C Integration, Programming Architecture

Beyond coaching athletes, Abraham brings deep technical understanding across:

Biomechanics & Movement Analysis: Technical depth that allows precise diagnosis of movement dysfunction and systematic correction across swimming, cycling, running, and combat sports disciplines.

Strength & Conditioning Integration: Establishing S&C as non-negotiable infrastructure rather than supplementary work. Bringing systematic strength development into domains (triathlon, BJJ) where it's traditionally treated as optional or misunderstood entirely.

Programming & Periodisation: System architecture for long-term athletic development. Not just writing training blocks, but building the structural framework that allows sustained progression across years without burnout or breakdown.

Coach Development: Abraham has coached coaches, advising PTs, head coaches, and running coaches on S&C programming, periodisation implementation, and athlete development frameworks. Supporting PTs gaining qualifications by providing the practical application depth that certification courses often lack.

This technical foundation is what allows Abraham to deliver institutional-level consulting, not just individual athlete coaching.

Institutional & Club Consulting

Triathlon Clubs:

  • Swimming programme design and implementation

  • Periodisation planning for major events including Blenheim Triathlon

  • Club structure and training philosophy development

BJJ Clubs:

  • Media strategy integration

  • Establishing S&C as non-negotiable infrastructure (Zetrillo, GFA Fight Academy, BJJ House Academy)

  • Athletic development programming

Head Coach Support Across Settings: Strategic consulting for head coaches integrating S&C methodology into triathlon and combat sports domains. Bringing systematic strength development into environments where it's been historically fragmented or misapplied.

British Triathlon Partnership: Working with British Triathlon to advance recovery-led methodology within the institutional triathlon landscape. Bringing systematic recovery infrastructure into a sport that has traditionally prioritised volume and intensity over sustainable development.

Brand, Media & Strategic Positioning

Abraham has provided strategic guidance across:

Athletic Brands:

  • Zetrillo

  • Black Tri

  • BJJ House Academy

  • GFA Fight Academy

Brand Development Work:

  • Market positioning and voice development for athletic brands

  • Social media influencers finding authentic positioning and sustainable content strategy

  • Individual athletes defining competitive identity and public presence

  • Fitness coaches developing brand clarity and service architecture

  • Clothing brands establishing philosophical identity

  • Professional sports clubs developing coherent culture and brand expression

This work integrates athletic development with brand clarity because they emerge from the same foundation: knowing who you are and what you're actually building towards. Abraham doesn't treat branding as marketing overlay: he treats it as the external expression of internal coherence.

Media Strategy & Content Development: Supporting clubs, coaches, and athletes in building media infrastructure that serves their actual work rather than performance theatre. Real moments, real meaning. Content that captures what training and transformation actually look like when you strip away the optimisation culture noise.

Content Creation & Thought Leadership

The Unbroken Protocol Podcast: Long-form exploration of wellness culture, performance obsession, and recovery-led training. Episodes examine dopamine hijacking, caffeine dependency, social media comparison, and the dark psychology of optimisation culture. Using the Story-Insight-Application framework, Abraham creates confrontational content that challenges listener assumptions about what sustainable performance actually requires.

Writing Platforms:

  • Medium: Articles on training methodology, performance culture, and athletic development

  • Substack: Long-form essays exploring the intersection of contemplative practice and athletic performance

  • Regular publishing that systematically challenges extraction-based performance culture whilst establishing recovery-led methodology as viable alternative

The Unbroken Protocol: Foundation Version (Book – End of 2025): Comprehensive training methodology in book form. Not a training manual: a philosophical and practical foundation for recovery-led athletic development. This book challenges extraction-based performance culture whilst providing systematic framework for sustainable progression across the layers that triathlon coaching typically ignores: S&C infrastructure, contemplative practice, cognitive patterns, and psychological foundation.

What Abraham Has Created: The Unbroken Ecosystem

From over 20 years as a competitive athlete, over a decade coaching hundreds of athletes from toddlers to world champions, deep technical expertise in biomechanics and S&C integration, institutional consulting for triathlon and BJJ clubs, partnership with British Triathlon, strategic brand work for athletic companies and influencers, and content platforms challenging wellness culture exploitation, Abraham has built the Unbroken Ecosystem.

Unbroken Triathlon Club – The UK's first recovery-led triathlon club, built on the R.A.C.E. framework. A partnership with British Triathlon that challenges traditional performance-obsessed triathlon culture in favour of sustainable, recovery-led training methodologies.

Mindfulsubmerge – The clothing brand and philosophical identity of the ecosystem. Calm design, clear philosophy, grounded performance. The visual and conceptual language that holds the entire system together.

AbesMedia – Cinematic storytelling for athletes. Real moments, real meaning. Media work that captures what training and transformation actually look like when you strip away the performance theatre.

The Unbroken Protocol – Book, podcast, and methodology. The systematic articulation of recovery-led performance across all the layers that extraction-based coaching fragments: triathlon programming, S&C infrastructure, contemplative practice, cognitive patterns, psychological foundation.

Integration and Coherence

The ecosystem isn't a business model. It's the structure that emerged from doing this work across all these domains for over a decade.

The club delivers triathlon methodology. The podcast challenges the extraction-based culture and guilt-motivation patterns. The book establishes the full system across all layers. The media shows what this actually looks like. The clothing brand holds the philosophical identity.

You can't deliver recovery-led training (with its integration of S&C, mindfulness, cognitive work, and psychological foundation) through fragmented services. The ecosystem exists because the methodology requires it.

Abraham isn't teaching theory. He's teaching what he's lived, tested, refined, and proven across hundreds of athletes and multiple disciplines over a decade of direct practice. The ecosystem exists because Abraham has the depth to hold all of it together, and the lived experience to know what actually works when you strip away the noise.

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