About Us
Adrian Brough is a strength & conditioning expert with over 20 years experience in physical preparation, injury management and athletic performance. His proven success in keeping injuries to a minimum and athletic performance to a maximum has set the foundation for factor athletic preparation software.
Through decades of experience, Adrian has gained extensive knowledge in all aspects of elite athletic performance including training and recovery loads, injury prevention and rehabilitation, training for elite performance, musculo-skeletal imbalances and much more. Adrian has worked with World Champions, Olympians, National Champions and many other elite athletes. When working with these athletes Adrian would custom develop programs for maximizing performance and preventing injury, as he believes that you cannot improve at your sport or perform at your maximum level while injured. This has lead to Adrian working with over 100 international level athletes across many different sports including football, rugby league, sailing, swimming, tennis, equestrian, track and field, and includes people and athletes with disabilities. These years of experience and his hands-on approach to developing training programs provided Adrian with the expertise to design and create a software program to manage all areas of athletic preparation.
In Australia in 2005, the national level rugby league team Newcastle Knights had a terrible start to the season and were losing every game and amassing a huge injury toll. As the season progressed it only got worse as they lay last on the table and with 26 of their 54 man squad with some kind of injury. Adrian was engaged to help get the players rehabilitated and the team back on track. As Adrian began to return players to play the Knights began winning and went on to win 8 from their last 11 games. The players began calling Adrian the X-Factor because they said he was the only thing that had changed in the club and the club went from losing to winning. Over the following two seasons Adrian reduced the games missed with injury from 246 to 54 with only 3 non-contact injuries for one season and only 1 game missed with groin injuries in 3 seasons. This is still the best injury record in the history of the club.
The players and staff shortened the name from X-factor to factor and with such fond memories Adrian used the name for the software.
In 2016 it happened all over again as Adrian was approached by a professional rugby league team in England. An iconic rugby league team the Bradford Bulls were languishing in 6th position on the table and again had a huge injury toll. When Adrian arrived they had 10 players out injured and 18 of the 30 man squad had pain on the adductor squeeze test. Adrian worked hands on for 3 weeks reducing the players with groin pain from 18 to 1. He implemented rehabilitation programs for the injured players, returning all but 2 players to field training in those 3 weeks and while working hands on for those 3 weeks not one single player missed a game with injury. The team went on to play in the championship final and won their first piece of silverware in 10 years and they affectionately named him The Wizard.
Adrian is regularly approached by sports clubs and athletes from all over the world for advice but his passion truly lays in working directly with athletes and in more recent years the potential in developing athletes from junior ages. This passion is why he has created factor, the world’s best athletic preparation program, so athletes can experience the ultimate in physical preparation, injury prevention and overall improved performance.
Adrian Brough holds Australia’s highest qualification in Strength and Conditioning (Level 3) along with a Graduate Diploma in Sports Nutrition and more then 15 years massage experience. Adrian started with physical preparation in 1994 and successfully owned and operated his own fitness business for over 13 years and created a 1200 square metre rehabilitation medical centre. He launched factor in 2015.
Through decades of experience, Adrian has gained extensive knowledge in all aspects of elite athletic performance including training and recovery loads, injury prevention and rehabilitation, training for elite performance, musculo-skeletal imbalances and much more. Adrian has worked with World Champions, Olympians, National Champions and many other elite athletes. When working with these athletes Adrian would custom develop programs for maximizing performance and preventing injury, as he believes that you cannot improve at your sport or perform at your maximum level while injured. This has lead to Adrian working with over 100 international level athletes across many different sports including football, rugby league, sailing, swimming, tennis, equestrian, track and field, and includes people and athletes with disabilities. These years of experience and his hands-on approach to developing training programs provided Adrian with the expertise to design and create a software program to manage all areas of athletic preparation.
In Australia in 2005, the national level rugby league team Newcastle Knights had a terrible start to the season and were losing every game and amassing a huge injury toll. As the season progressed it only got worse as they lay last on the table and with 26 of their 54 man squad with some kind of injury. Adrian was engaged to help get the players rehabilitated and the team back on track. As Adrian began to return players to play the Knights began winning and went on to win 8 from their last 11 games. The players began calling Adrian the X-Factor because they said he was the only thing that had changed in the club and the club went from losing to winning. Over the following two seasons Adrian reduced the games missed with injury from 246 to 54 with only 3 non-contact injuries for one season and only 1 game missed with groin injuries in 3 seasons. This is still the best injury record in the history of the club.
The players and staff shortened the name from X-factor to factor and with such fond memories Adrian used the name for the software.
In 2016 it happened all over again as Adrian was approached by a professional rugby league team in England. An iconic rugby league team the Bradford Bulls were languishing in 6th position on the table and again had a huge injury toll. When Adrian arrived they had 10 players out injured and 18 of the 30 man squad had pain on the adductor squeeze test. Adrian worked hands on for 3 weeks reducing the players with groin pain from 18 to 1. He implemented rehabilitation programs for the injured players, returning all but 2 players to field training in those 3 weeks and while working hands on for those 3 weeks not one single player missed a game with injury. The team went on to play in the championship final and won their first piece of silverware in 10 years and they affectionately named him The Wizard.
Adrian is regularly approached by sports clubs and athletes from all over the world for advice but his passion truly lays in working directly with athletes and in more recent years the potential in developing athletes from junior ages. This passion is why he has created factor, the world’s best athletic preparation program, so athletes can experience the ultimate in physical preparation, injury prevention and overall improved performance.
Adrian Brough holds Australia’s highest qualification in Strength and Conditioning (Level 3) along with a Graduate Diploma in Sports Nutrition and more then 15 years massage experience. Adrian started with physical preparation in 1994 and successfully owned and operated his own fitness business for over 13 years and created a 1200 square metre rehabilitation medical centre. He launched factor in 2015.
