Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Monkey See, Monkey Do
The conversation starts out like this after Joe Blow wins a world championship. “Yea I heard that every other day he ran backward up a 400-meter hill wearing a snorkel while he was barefoot. Wow I thi...
Spanish Swim Coaches Convention
It was a very enjoyable three days with the Spanish swim coaches at their annual convention. I read Spanish fairly well but I am very rusty on my spoken Spanish so it was very interesting attending th...
Function and Functional Training– Are there a better words?
The words function and functional training have been bastardized and trivialized to the point that they are virtually meaningless. We need to come up with a better more exact term that is descriptive ...
Dotting the i’s
Interest – Stimulate it. Keep the athlete interested by challenging them, by testing their limits and capabilities. Never allow them to be comfortable. Involvement – All in or nothing. You can’t make ...
Injury Prevention and Causes
Actually in most situations it is quite simple, the cause and the prevention are one and the same. It is either something you are doing or it is something you are not doing. Let me give you an example...
Fresno State Football 1964 – 67
We were going through and doing a general cleaning and we came upon a practice jersey from my days playing football at Fresno Sate. We also came upon a t-shirt from my 1977 track & field team at S...
Building the Complete Athlete Seminar in UK
For those of you in the UK I will be presenting a two-day workshop titled Building the Complete Athlete November 3 & 4, 2012 at Leeds Metropolitan University, there are still some spots still avai...
Meaningful Practice & Training
It too easy to go through the motions, to put in time on you feet and call it practice or training, I see it everywhere I go. Punching a clock is not training. There must be focus and intensity. You p...
The Four T’s
Teach – Coaching is teaching. Look for teachable moments and take advantage of them. Recognize all learning styles and use them. Technique – Establish a sound technical model and then continue to refi...