Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Periodization – Myths & Reality, A Coaches Perspective
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” Dwight Eisenhower Training Talk with John Kiely (Part 1) on HMMR Meida was excellent interview. It ...
Growing The Athlete
Growing the athlete is an organic process. It takes time and timing of the appropriate stimuli for the level of the athlete’s stage of development. My father was a gardener and I remember the first ti...
Coach John Wooden – A Twitter Coach
John Wooden died June 4, 2010 at age 99. Twitter was founded in 2006. He retired in 1975 thirty-one years before Twitter yet he was a twitter coach. Why? How? We know that Coach Wooden is acknowledged...
The Grind
What grind? Grind is not in my vocabulary. If what you are doing in coaching is a grind take a giant step back and reconsider what you are doing. If you approach it as a grind it WILL BE A GRIND and a...
No Pain, No Gain?
No pain, no gain was a very prevalent attitude when I began coaching in the late Sixties and surprisingly it continues to persist today. I personally have never been able to figure out the appeal of t...
Coaching
Coaching is a process with a foundation in pedagogy, supported by science, forged in experience, proven & tested in the competitive arena. Lest we forget coaching is not about training, technique,...
Bastardization of Functional Training
Unfortunately the concept of functional training as it has evolved and been co-opted by the “fitness industry” has been bastardized and compromised into a weird amalgamation of crazy exercises without...
The Continuum of Function
Movement is a complex event that involves synergists, stabilizers, neutralizers, and antagonists all working together to reproduce efficient triplanar movements. Therefore the basic foundational princ...
The “Complete” Adaptable Athlete
To thrive in the performance arena demands a versatile highly adaptable athlete whose training reflects the demands of the sport and the needs of the individual athlete. We must recognize that for the...