Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Change
Coaches today face different challenges than I did when I started coaching in 1969. In my 49 year coaching career, the world has changed dramatically but now it is changing at a faster rate than ever ...
Strategies for Coaching Success
You must know yourself and your strengths and weaknesses as a coach. Just as you expect your athletes to work on their weakness and maximize their strengths you should also. Know the sport that you ar...
Commonalities of Movement
Human movement is fundamentally beautiful and flowing. Step back and look at sports from a movement perspective, not a sport skill perspective, you will see a commonality in movement, a beauty and a f...
Work Capacity – Application of the Concept
A month ago, I posted on the concept of work capacity, here is the follow-up. The application of the concept of work capacity is based on basic principles: At younger training ages volume and general ...
Contemporary Coaching Challenges
This is an excerpt from my book Athletic Development – The Art & science of Functional Sports Conditioning that I thought was particularly timely. “We do not coach in a vacuum. Within our society ...
Work Capacity – The Concept
Work capacity is the ability to tolerate a workload and recover from that workload. In order for an athlete to improve they must be able to do a certain threshold amount of work. They must be able to ...
So, You Want a Coaching Job?
In the course of my fifty years of coaching I have been fortunate to have had great mentors, influences and role models. I learned very early that I was not entitled to anything I had to pay my dues a...
The Athlete’s Growth Process – Making the Champions Choice
The athlete’s growth process is by no means linear or clearly defined. In my experience there are three steps of indeterminate length: First Step: Your start out on the journey. Basically, you physica...
Who Am I?
I am possibly going through an old age identity crisis, but I have been thinking a lot lately about how people define themselves or let other define them. It got me thinking about how I define myself,...