Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Finishers
If you are doing so-called finishers – Whether they are heavy sled pulls or sets to exhaustion, anything in the form of a so called “gut check” to make the athlete tougher – Think again and ask yourse...
How do I know what’s right?
Recently during a presentation to swim coaches on dryland training, a coach asked me how he could know that what I was saying was right? He pointed out that the next day someone else was going to spea...
Making Shapes
This is another way to look at flexibility. You can look at flexibility as the range of motion around a joint that you can control – certainly valid. You can also look at it as the correct amoun...
Changing the Game
The only way you change the change the game is to change how you prepare for the game. Now we are in NBA preseason and on the NBA channel they are traveling to the various training camps and interview...
Countdown to Rio – What are you doing?
Right now as I write this post there are athletes all over the world preparing for the Olympic games in Rio. I can’t help but wonder how many will be victimized by that fatal disease called the Olympi...
Mach Sprint Drills – A Personal Perspective
The so-called Mach drills were part of a comprehensive system; frankly that is what I see missing today. Just because it looks like the sprint action does not mean there is much transfer. Similar is n...
Lessons from Japans Win in Rugby World Cup
When Japan beat South Africa I went back to my notes of Eddie Jones presentation at Global Coaches House in London 2012 during the Olympic games. In that presentation he detailed out exactly what thei...
What about LTAD?
LTAD has almost become a cliché. Everyone has an LTAD program and they all look the same. How can that be? We need to seriously rethink the whole concept of LTAD. It is not a model, a framework or a p...
We do that!
Nothing will take the air out of a conversation with a coach for me faster than the statement “we do that.” Usually I just walk away muttering to myself while shaking my head. Great, if you do that th...