About Abraham Spring
Founder, Head Coach, Strategic Consultant & Content Creator
How I Got Here
I've spent over 20 years as a competitive athlete across combat sports and endurance disciplines, football, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, triathlon, track and field, cross country. This taught me 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.
I learned the hard way. I've pushed through burnout. I've trained through injury. I've built performance on foundations that couldn't hold. And I've sat through over 100 days of vipassana meditation across multiple 10-day silent retreats, which fundamentally changed how I see athletic development.
That combination paired showed me patterns in athletic development that performance-obsessed coaching misses entirely. It showed me that sustainable performance isn't about pushing harder. It's about building differently.
What I've Built
I founded Unbroken, the UK's first triathlon club explicitly structured around recovery-led methodology. Not because recovery is a new concept it isn't. Recovery has always been theoretically essential in sports science. But traditional triathlon programming often emphasises volume and intensity over systematic recovery optimization.
My approach is different. I position recovery as active foundational infrastructure from which all performance emerges. I integrate strength & conditioning, contemplative practice, cognitive pattern work, and psychological development into a unified system. Not as add-ons. As infrastructure.
The R.A.C.E. Framework: System, Not Program
I developed the R.A.C.E. framework (Recover, Align, Condition, Execute) over years of coaching hundreds of athletes. It's not 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.
What I Actually Coach
Triathlon is the visible expression of my methodology. But 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. This comes from my own practice. I know what it looks like when contemplation becomes methodology, not add-on.
Cognitive Pattern Recognition – Understanding what actually drives training decisions. Whether athletes are building capacity or proving something. How thinking patterns shape training sustainability. I've worked through my own patterns. I help athletes work through theirs.
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?
I don't coach triathlon with recovery added on. I coach 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.
Who I've Worked With
Over the past decade, I've coached hundreds of athletes across the full spectrum:
Toddlers learning fundamental movement patterns and body awareness (Swimming)
SEND athletes requiring specialised programming, communication, and support structures (Swimming)
Adults overcoming water phobia and fear-based barriers to complete their first triathlon (Swimming/Triathlon)
Non-weak swimmers progressing to Blenheim Triathlon completion
Age-group athletes developing systematically from sprint distance to Ironman completion
Competitive athletes progressing across multiple disciplines
Athletes processing trauma, fear, and deep psychological barriers while maintaining training progression
This range taught me what's fundamental versus what's contextual. What principles hold when you're teaching a child to swim and refining technique with a competitive athlete. The methodological depth comes from knowing what actually works when you strip away the performance theatre.
Technical Foundation
Beyond coaching athletes, I bring technical depth across:
Biomechanics & Movement Analysis: I can diagnose movement dysfunction and systematically correct it across swimming, cycling, running, and combat sports disciplines.
Strength & Conditioning Integration: I establish S&C as non-negotiable infrastructure rather than supplementary work. I bring systematic strength development into domains (triathlon, BJJ) where it's traditionally treated as optional or misunderstood entirely.
Programming & Periodisation: I build 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: I've coached coaches advising PTs, head coaches, and running coaches on S&C programming, periodisation implementation, and athlete development frameworks. I've supported PTs gaining qualifications by providing the practical application depth that certification courses often lack.
This technical foundation is what allows me to deliver institutional-level consulting, not just individual athlete coaching.
Institutional & Club Work
I've consulted for triathlon and BJJ clubs across:
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
British Triathlon Partnership: Unbroken operates as a British Triathlon registered club (Club 2978). I'm advancing recovery-led methodology within the triathlon landscape, bringing systematic recovery infrastructure into a sport that has traditionally prioritised volume and intensity over sustainable development.
Brand & Strategic Work
I've provided strategic guidance for athletic brands, social media influencers, individual athletes, fitness coaches, clothing brands, and professional sports clubs. Brands I've worked with include Zetrillo, Black Tri, BJJ House Academy, and GFA Fight Academy.
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. I don't treat branding as marketing overlay. I treat it as the external expression of internal coherence.
I also support 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 & Thought Leadership
The Unbroken Protocol Podcast: Long-form exploration of wellness culture, performance obsession, and recovery-led training. I examine dopamine hijacking, caffeine dependency, social media comparison, and the dark psychology of optimisation culture. I create 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
I publish regularly, systematically challenging extraction-based performance culture whilst establishing recovery-led methodology as a viable alternative.
The Unbroken Protocol: Foundation Version (Book): I published this in January 2026. It's not a training manual it's a philosophical and practical foundation for recovery-led athletic development. The book challenges extraction-based performance culture whilst providing a systematic framework for sustainable progression across the layers that triathlon coaching typically ignores: S&C infrastructure, contemplative practice, cognitive patterns, and psychological foundation.
The Unbroken Ecosystem
From over 20 years as a competitive athlete, over a decade coaching hundreds of athletes from beginners to competitive level, 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, I've built the Unbroken Ecosystem.
Unbroken Triathlon Club – The UK's first triathlon club explicitly structured around recovery-led methodology, built on the R.A.C.E. framework. A British Triathlon registered club 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.
Why It's an Ecosystem
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.
I'm not teaching theory. I'm teaching what I've lived, tested, refined, and proven across hundreds of athletes and multiple disciplines over a decade of direct practice. The ecosystem exists because I have the depth to hold all of it together, and the lived experience to know what actually works when you strip away the noise.