Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Difference Makers
The difference makers can be events, people or situations and much more. Mindset matters, maybe much more that we think. Accepting challenges and working in the discomfort zone are difference makers. ...
Role of Olympic Lifting in Athletic Development
In the athlete development process Olympic style weight training has occupied a large role. This has both good and bad implications. Olympic style weight lifting is a training method that is excellent...
The Coaching Process
Coaching is a process that has a firm foundation in pedagogy (practice of teaching), supported by science, forged in experience, proven and tested in the competitive arena. Part of the process is main...
Questions
Learn to ask the right (appropriate) question. Be willing to ask the hard questions others are unwilling to ask. Here are some questions I find myself asking quite often: What is the difference? Can I...
The Human Body – A Perspective
Think of the body as a versatile musician who can play beautiful classical pieces and shift rapidly to jazz riffs and then in the next instant to a hip hop beat. What is wondrous is that all this can ...
Real Smart People
I don’t why it took me forty years to figure out that the smartest people are not the ones who are always talking and telling you what they know. The real smart people are those who are listening and ...
The Job of Coaching?
Coaching is not a job it is not an industry! It is a way of life, a lifestyle, a profession. It is fueled by passion and driven by dedication to improving the lives of the athletes we work with work. ...
Coaching Tips from Chef Bobby Flay
Yesterday I caught the end an interview with noted chef Bobby Flay. He offered two pearls of wisdom that I found very appropriate for coaches. The first one was to never rest on your laurels, constant...
Work Capacity – Part Two
It is important to distinguish the development of a large work capacity from the development of an aerobic base. The development of an appropriate aerobic foundation is a component part of work capaci...