Embedded group physical preparation · High-cognitive-load teams · Paris / Remote

Physiology in service of your teams' performance

Group physical preparation, embedded in the working week of high-cognitive-load teams, in R&D, deeptech and engineering. The goal: performance and intellectual durability, measured through objective testing. Not generic wellness.

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7+ yrsof experience
70+profiles coached
Hundredsin group classes
Technical coaching during a group session
Intellectual performance is prepared physically.
The approach

Intellectual performance is physiological.

In high-cognitive-load professions, the quality of decisions depends partly on the physical condition of those who make them. Properly programmed, training remains an often-underestimated lever of sustainable performance.

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Train the body that thinks

Clarity, attention and mental endurance also rest on a physical base. It is trained methodically, like strength or endurance.

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Fit into the team's week

The schedule is the number-one constraint. The service is embedded: one short session per week, at your offices, without overloading the working week.

For your teams

At the core of my work: your teams

Group physical preparation, embedded in the working week of high-cognitive-load teams, in R&D, deeptech and engineering. Results rest on objective testing, not just on what's self-reported. The angle remains performance and intellectual durability, not wellness.

Entry point · 90 min

Discovery workshop

A 90-minute session, with no free weights, to let your teams experience the link between physical condition and intellectual performance, through practice and through data. A half-day format is also available.

Embedded service · subscription

Continuous preparation

A renewable subscription: a one-quarter priming phase (one short session per week, progressive intensity), then renewal into continuous follow-up. A coached framework, with measured progression.

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Detailed outlines, method, tracked markers and terms on the dedicated page.

Strength training, fundamental patterns
Fundamental patterns, trained methodically.
The method

A simple frame, constant and progressive

My job is training as a physiological tool: no nutrition, no life coaching. The same method structures every coached programme, individual and collective alike.

Step 01
Strength-training fundamentals

Introduction to the fundamentals: posture, bracing and clean execution of the basic movements.

Step 02 · Testing
Fundamental patterns

Testing the fundamental patterns: squat, Romanian deadlift (RDL), push-ups, rows.

Step 03 · 30 min
Targeted training

Targeted work to develop these capacities, under progressive and supervised load.

Step 04 · 20 to 30 min
Adapted conditioning

Conditioning adapted to each person's level, as AMRAP, EMOM or HIIT.

This frame describes the coached programme. The 90-minute discovery workshop is a lighter version of it, with no free weights.

The markers we track

Strength
Progression on the fundamental patterns
Aerobic capacity
Higher thresholds and endurance
Body composition
Measured change over time
Adherence
Sticking with the protocol over time
Perceived energy
Stability across the working day
Autonomy
More freedom in everyday movement
The proof

What individual work has proven

Before it was deployed with teams, the method was built on individual coaching. Below are the trends observed across 21 documented programmes, over 12 to 24 months and beyond, not promises but trajectories.

Functional training, goblet squat
Trajectories measured objectively.
Strength

Fundamental patterns

Marked progression on the squat, the RDL and rows, over 12 to 24 months of regular coaching.

Endurance

Aerobic capacity

Improved endurance and a lower resting heart rate observed over time.

21 cases

Documented

A portfolio of varied profiles, measured on agreed markers, from beginner to advanced.

Representative profiles

R&D leadership 1.5 h / week

A very tight leadership schedule. A full-body programme centred on the fundamental patterns reached intermediate strength standards by maximising every minute of training.

Executive · analytical profile Clean recomposition

5 h/week, advanced periodisation across several cycles. A high-level body recomposition and continuous progression, over more than 18 months of follow-up.

Higher-education academic Performance & upkeep

A saturated schedule, ~2 h/week plus weighted running. A maintenance-and-performance goal: working loads and endurance in continuous progression.

Tech profile · highly sedentary role Beginner gains

A sedentary profile, a programme centred on six fundamental patterns. Strong progression of working loads from the first sessions, which builds a technical base.

See the detailed case studies
Vivien Strudel
About

The human behind the method

It was in 2017, amid the intensity of audit work, that I understood something simple: intellectual performance doesn't hold without a physical base. The long days, the constant mental load, the concentration demanded without let-up: all of it rests on a physiological infrastructure we almost always neglect.

That realisation is what shifted my path, from finance toward physical preparation. Since then I have coached 70+ individuals (university professors at top engineering schools, executives, researchers, high-level amateur athletes) and led groups: Volleyball at Nationale 3 level, group classes and training for hundreds of people, including 40+ in monitored sessions.

Today my work is focused on embedded group physical preparation for high-cognitive-load teams. Individual coaching remains, as proof and as the laboratory of the method.

2014-2017
The corporate system

Master's in Corporate Finance from a top French business school (Rennes School of Business). Audit roles at French Red Cross and KPMG France. The turning point, late 2017.

October 2018 to present
Strength & Conditioning Coach

Independent coach. Over 7 years of individual and collective coaching: 70+ individual clients, group classes and training for hundreds of people, Volleyball coaching at Nationale 3 level.

2019-2021
Scientific grounding

State-certified diplomas BPJEPS and DEJEPS Sport Coaching at the CREPS of Châtenay-Malabry.

December 2025 to present
Embedded physical preparation

Designing and deploying group physical preparation for high-cognitive-load teams (R&D, deeptech, engineering). Biomechanical and physiological coaching.

2025-2026
Continued research

Bachelor's in Sport Science, Sport Coaching specialisation (Université d'Évry Paris-Saclay), to integrate the latest physiological advances into protocols.

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