Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Thinking About Strength – Part One
Yesterday as I watching Free Solo https://tinyurl.com/y98yt7ra all I could think of is how strong Alex Honnold ,as he was suspended by one hand thousands of feet above the ground. Yet I hardly think b...
No Track, No Problem
Congratulations to Tove Shere, Track Coach at Santa Fe Prep for being inducted in the New Mexico high school track & field coaches Hall of Fame. Tove’s teams have won multiple state championships ...
GAIN 2019 – Applications Open
GAIN is a community of professional’s eager to learn and willing to share ideas and information. GAIN is not about more exercises, sets, reps and training methods it is about passionate people who pur...
Herb Elliot and Ralph Doubell – Some Lessons for Today
Sadly, I doubt that unless you are a diehard track fan you do not know these names. I am surprised at how many of the current generation of track coaches and athletes do not know these names. Herb Ell...
50 Years and Counting – The Journey Continues
Next Monday marks the anniversary of my first day of coaching fifty years ago. I thought this would be an appropriate post to start the new year. Even though it is now fifty years since the first Mond...
False Prophets Bearing Gifts
Beware of false prophets bearing gifts! There are many silver tonged devils out there who needlessly complicate simple things and are then selling you machines to measure or train those things. Machin...
My 2018 Best Books
Of the 150 books I have read in 2018 these are my selections for the best. It is an eclectic collection reflecting my various interests. Hopefully this will give you some ideas for good reading...
Looking for Secrets
When I see a new article or a post on the unveiling of the latest secret training method my cynicism meter goes off the scale. One secret that I have learned is there are no secrets. There are no shor...
Using Olympic Lifting – A Perspective
The following is excerpted from my book Athletic Development – The Art and Science of Functional Sports Conditioning – Chapter 10 Full Spectrum Strength with some updates. In the athlete development p...