Athletic Development – Defining the Field
No Secrets
Always good for a laugh when I see a new article or a post on the unveiling of the latest secret training method. I will let you in on a little secret there are no secrets! There are no shortcuts to t...
Testing =Training & Training = Testing
Testing and training go hand and glove. Evaluation through testing is an ongoing process that will determine the direction and content of training. Therefore it is important to build testing into the ...
The Bowerman Influence – 50 Years Later
Bill Bowerman had a huge influence on my decision to be a track coach. In the winter of 1968; my senior year in college at Fresno State Bowerman came to speak as the featured speaker at the first ever...
My Coaching Journey Continues
January 2018 marks the beginning on my 49th year of coaching. It has been an adventure every step of the way – a journey of continual learning and discovery that started with Santa Barbara High School...
Two Great Sprinters
Two great sprinters died within weeks of each other in the fall of 2017. You would have be close to my age and a real track nut to know who they were. These two sprinters had a huge influence on my in...
GAIN 2018 – Apply Now
This is the eleventh year of GAIN; it started 2007 with twelve attendees and four instructors and has grown to eighty attendees from all over the world and eighteen faculty. GAIN is a community of pro...
Athlete Development Process
This framework first articulated by Frank Dick many years ago is elegant in its simplicity. Follow this process and you will produce athletes who have a chance to be champions. Please note that the at...
Another Classic Resource
In July of 1986 I flew into Tucson to visit Anne E. “Betty” Atwater, a professor of Biomechanics at University of Arizona, in order to pick her brain about throwing. This was an area where she had don...