Books
A body of work in performance science.
Plus a recent one for the cyclists.
The flagship
Bestseller · the flagship
How to Support a Champion
The art of applying science to the elite athlete
In 1998, Sir Steve Redgrave looked across a lab and asked: “Are you going to make me go faster?” The question reshaped Ingham's career. Drawn from thirty years inside elite sport with athletes including Redgrave, Pinsent, Sotherton and Ennis-Hill, this is a book about what it actually takes to support people pursuing the summit of their potential. The science matters. So does trust, judgement, adaptability, and the willingness to be useful when it counts.
Self-published, 2016 · 8,000+ copies sold
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Most recent
And one for the bike.
Most recent
The Cyclist's Codex
Protocols for pedalling and preserving
A tongue-in-cheek field guide to riding well, riding right, and not being the reason the group chat goes quiet. A different lane to the rest of the work — and the most recent book on the shelf.
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Selected works
Two more, pointing the same direction.
Practitioner companion
The First Hurdle
Searching, applying and interviewing for jobs in sports performance
A practical guide to searching, applying and interviewing for jobs in sports performance. The market is viciously competitive and most aspirants are unprepared for what hiring really looks like from the other side of the table. Drawing on years of interviewing and developing thousands of practitioners, Ingham shares what hiring managers are actually looking for, how to stand out, and how to give yourself the best shot at the role you've trained for.
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Academic foundation · with Colin Clegg
Exercise Physiology and Anatomy of Movement
With Colin Clegg
Co-authored with Colin Clegg, this textbook bridges introductory physical education texts and the specialised literature — covering essential exercise physiology with clear training and performance applications. Used in further and higher education, fully illustrated, with a colour section on the anatomy of movement.
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Coming next
Dr Steve Ingham
What Persists
21 Lessons from the Leading Minds in Performance
Coming next
What Persists
21 Lessons from the Leading Minds in Performance
One hundred and sixty-nine conversations. Olympic champions, fighter pilots, neuroscientists, surgeons, coaches, and West End performers. Over five years of the Supporting Champions podcast, Steve Ingham sat down with people who operate at the sharp end of human performance and asked them one question: what have you learned?
The answers kept arriving at the same places.
Not because he steered them there. Because the lessons that matter — about knowing yourself, building trust, creating culture, doing the work properly, and understanding what winning actually means — don't belong to any single domain. They persist across all of them.
What Persists distils those conversations into twenty-one lessons, told in the guests' own words. Each chapter is built from direct quotes — real voices saying real things — with Steve's interpretation woven between them. It's not a textbook. It's not a self-help manual. It's a field report from the front line of performance, organised into five parts: self-knowledge, relationships, culture, methods, and meaning.
Every chapter ends with a challenge, not a checklist. Because the people in this book didn't get where they got by following someone else's instructions.
Coming soon.