About
THE LEADERS IN BOXING PERFORMANCE AND SPORT SCIENCE
We help boxers and coaches improve strength, conditioning, and performance using evidence-based training systems used at amateur and world level.
Boxing Science have been established since 2014, and have consulted over 700 athletes for Testing, Nutrition and Sport Science support.
We are committed to applying evidence based training to unlock an athlete’s potential, driving to develop more research to advance our own training system as well as sharing these findings with the Boxing and Combat Sport community.
Our team is small, but it packs a punch when it comes to knowledge, experience and innovation for Boxing.
Danny Wilson – Co-Founder and Strength and Conditioning Coach
Danny is a UKSA accredited strength and conditioning coach with a wealth of experience in high-performance sport, coaching 100’s of boxers of all ages and abilities, from junior amateur to world champion professionals. He is the co-founder of Boxing Science and has spearheaded the development of Boxing Science into a world recognised organisation, with over 350k social followers and thousands of training programs sold worldwide.
Academically, Danny has a BSc (Hons.) and MSc degrees in Sport and Exercise Science, co-authored on several peer-reviewed articles and including ‘Physical profile of junior and senior amateur boxers’ – which validated the Boxing Science Testing Battery. This testing battery has been completed by over 300 professional and amateur boxers, creating standardised scores for strength, speed and fitness over multiple weight categories.
A.Prof Alan Ruddock – Co-Founder and Performance Physiologist
Alan has a PhD in sport science from Sheffield Hallam University, is a Fellow of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (FBASES), a Chartered Scientist (CSci) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Dr Ruddock has worked with Olympians, Paralympians and World Champions in a range of sports for over ten years and provided sport science support to boxers in more than 15 world-title fights. In 2021 Alan was honoured with the prestigious BASES Applied Practitioner award that recognises outstanding and innovative delivery in applied sport and exercise science.
Alan has co-authored 30 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts in leading sport science journals and has been invited by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association and English Institute of Sport to present his work on high-intensity conditioning for sports performance.
Lee Rickards – Performance Nutritionist
Lee Rickards is a distinguished performance nutritionist specialising in weight-making sports, notably boxing. He holds both a Bachelor of Science in Sport Science for Performance Coaching and a Master of Science in Sport and Exercise Science from Sheffield Hallam University. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD at the same institution, focusing on the effects of polyphenol supplementation on recovery from exercise-induced muscle damage.
In his professional capacity, Lee serves as a nutrition consultant for Sheffield United Football Club and works with professional combat sport athletes competing at various levels, including regional, national, and Commonwealth titles. His expertise encompasses strength and conditioning, underscored by his accreditation from the UK Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA), and body composition analysis, accredited by The International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK).
Lee is an integral part of the Boxing Science team, where he contributes extensively through articles and educational content aimed at optimising athletes’ performance and nutrition strategies. His writings cover a broad spectrum of topics, including fight week nutrition, intermittent fasting, and dietary approaches for boxers.
Customers worldwide - from World Champion Fighters, Coaches and Recreational Atheletes
Coaches have attended our workshops from all over the world, including Australia, USA, Brazil and many more locations
Meet the Team
Danny Wilson
Co-Founder | Strength and Conditioning Coach
Alan Ruddock
Co-Founder | Performance Physiologist
Lee Rickards
Sport Nutritionist
Danny Wilson
Sport Nutritionist
Danny Wilson is a UKSCA accredited strength and conditioning coach (2012), and co-founded Boxing Science in 2014 following building the successful Boxing program at Sheffield Hallam University.
Danny created the Boxing Science testing battery and training systems that have helped over 500 athletes get fitter, faster and stronger…
He has worked with a range of athletes from amateurs to world champions, such as Kell Brook, Kid Galahad, Jamie and Gavin McDonnell, Derek Chisora, Nicola Adams, Jordan Gill and Anthony Fowler.
Danny has provided sport science consultancy to England Boxing and Yorkshire Boxing, this was the first sport science delivery for nationally and regionally for England Boxing. Danny is also a qualified Level 1 Amateur Boxing coach, and helps out in the Sheffield City ABC as well as taking part in corner work during competition.
Away from Boxing, Danny is currently the Yorkshire regional strength and conditioning coach for England Golf and has experiences in youth and professional standards across a range of sports.
Danny is a United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association accredited strength and conditioning coach and has a Master of Science degree in Sport Science at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. For his final research project Danny profiled the physiological characteristics of amateur boxers and will share some of the novel findings on Boxing Science.
Danny is a key contributor to our educational content across the Boxing Science membership, presenter on our YouTube channel, author of the many free articles on our website and first author of Train Like A Champion.
Alan Ruddock
Sport Nutritionist
Alan is a physiologist at Sheffield Hallam University with a wealth of experience in sports science. He has worked with a range of individual athletes and teams, including FIFA World Cup referee Howard Webb and Commonwealth games medalists England Table Tennis.
Alan has worked extensively within Boxing at the highest level, having a huge influence on Kid Galahad’s British, Commonwealth and European Title wins and with Kell Brook’s IBF welterweight world title victory and his mega-fight against Gennady Golovkin.
Alan is a BASES accredited sport & exercise scientist and one of the UK’s first chartered scientists in sport science. Alan has also recently completed his PhD “Alleviating heat strain during exercise: Hand cooling and thermoregulation”.
Alan created the Boxing Science conditioning protocols, that have helped 100’s of athletes over the world improve their high-intensity performance. He is a key contributor to the Boxing Science membership educational content, author and editor of the website articles and Train Like a Champion.
Lee Rickards
Sport Nutritionist
Lee Rickards is a nutrition consultant currently working at Sheffield United Football Club and with professional combat sport athletes competing for regional, national, commonwealth titles. Lee is an UKSCA accredited strength and conditioning coach (ASCC) and an accredited body composition analyst by The International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK).
Lee was awarded his Bachelor of Science in Sport Science for Performance Coaching in 2013 and Master of Science in Sport and Exercise Science two years later at Sheffield Hallam University. Lee has now taken on a PhD investigating polyphenol supplementation and recovery from exercise with a specific focus on recovery in football.