Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Read this Book! The Playmakers Advantage
For the past fifteen years I have been focused on what to do to get better at getting better. I have explored cognitive neuroscience, recognizing that the brain and how we train the brain is the key t...
Fit for the Test or Fit to Play for the Game
Do you want your athletes fit for the test or fit to play for the game? There is a real and distinct difference on one hand and some real lessons to be learned on the other. It all depends how the “fi...
Clearing the Path or Preparing the Athlete for the Path
This post reporting Tony Strudwick’s comments is what prompted me to write this post. http://trainingground.guru/articles/tony-strudwick-why-sport-science-has-lost-its-way Let’s stop putting inordinat...
Junior World Championships
Recently the Junior World Track & Field Championships were televised. I watched with great interest. It was interesting to see the wider variation in body types than what you see at the senior lev...
Where are you looking?
A drunken man was intently searching the ground near a lamp post. My friend asked what he was looking for. The drunk replied that he was looking for his car keys, so my friend helped him look without ...
Training Talk: Conversations with a Dozen Master Coaches
The following post is taken from the Foreword I contributed to Martin Bingisser's new book Training Talk: Conversations with a Dozen Master Coaches. Back in 1987, I took a leap of fai...
Perils of Reductionist Thinking
Focusing on muscles and isolated movements is mentally convenient. It is very easy to break the body and movements into parts and separate systems and focus on thus parts to the exclusion of the whole...
Some Food for Thought Regrading Functional Movement (From Athletic Development – The Art & Science of Functional Sport Conditioning)
As a coach, particularly as a conditioning coach, following the functional path has at times been frustrating but ultimately a very satisfying experience. The path has been narrow and very winding at ...
EMG Studies and Muscle Action
Put a muscle at a mechanical disadvantage or isolate it and you will get high degree of muscle action on an EMG. Put that muscle into a movement where it is has to work with other muscles and now watc...