Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Change
You must change to stay the same. Change is a constant. You can control change by carefully manipulating the variables and being the change you want to be. Embrace change; lead it because coaches are ...
Olympic Year Syndrome – Five Ring Fever
It is always interesting to watch coaches and athletes in an Olympic year. To see what they do and what they don’t do. I first became aware of this in 1968 and have seen it in each subsequent Olympic ...
GAIN V Summary – Part Two
Each year we pick a theme for GAIN, this year’s theme was Coaching that Matters. Regardless of everyone’s job we all coaching the people we work with to get better, in order to do that we must focus o...
GAIN V Summary – Part One
I am not sure where to start. For me it was one of the best educational experiences of my career, bar none. I am not saying that because I organized it, but because for first time I was able to sit ba...
Lack of Posts
Finished GAIN V (Gambetta Athletic Improvement Network Apprentorship program) on Sunday. An amazing five days of great learning opportunities, inspiration and sharing. I am now driving home to Sarasot...
GAIN Apprentorship Day One & Two
Outstanding first two day here at Rice University in Houston Texas. Some great teaching resulting in an atmosphere of learning and sharing. Outstanding presentations yesterday by Ed Thomas on historic...
A Few Random Thoughts
In my travels and I get the opportunity to observe a lot of different things. Here are some random thoughts based on things that I have seen over the past few months. Rethink the use and role of stren...
Connections
One of the key aspects of a good training or rehab programs is the ability to make connections. Recognizing that the body is a kinetic chain we need to always be aware of how we are making connections...
Phenology
Yesterday when I was going through some files in preparation for GAIN and I found this article from the New York Times science section in 2008. The article was “Weather History” by Anthony DePalma. ht...