Athletic Development – Defining the Field
The Crows
Crows are attracted to shining objects. Are you a crow? Are you immediately attracted to shining objects? Crows in coaching are those who are constantly attracted to the newest shining object in the f...
Making Practice Better
Don’t try to replicate the game in practice, instead distort the game. Use varied constraints and restraints that force faster decision making speed and demand higher speed of action. Never allow the ...
Some Thoughts From This Mornings Walk
How do you measure results? Wins & loses? Improvement? Perfect effort? Different muscles perform different functions depending on the demands of the activities. Bad training methodology enhanced b...
Measurable Immeasurables
One of the keys to growing and enhancing coaching ability is learning to measure the immeasurable. Honestly I have not lost my mind; hear me out on this one. The measurables are given, distance, time,...
Trampled in the Rush
I get the very distinct feeling that in the rush to embrace analytics and all its permutations that coaches are being trampled in the rush. Does anyone else think we need to stop for a minute and take...
Common Sense of Training
Yesterday I highlighted the nonsense I have been seeing in training. Today lets talk about some common sense in training. Any effective training program is based on sound fundamental principles. There...
Free Your Minds – Training Sense & Nonsense
Yesterday in three different situations I saw the nonsense of training. Randomly putting together a series of exercises with no connection to each other and inappropriate for the athlete and calling i...
Bridging the Gap
We have been talking about bridging the gap between science and practice in sport for thirty plus years. You have to ask yourself with all we know today why is there still a gap? In fact in many ways ...
Crucial Questions
These are basic questions every coach should ask on an ongoing basis as a check to make sure training is on target. What are you doing? Who are you doing it with? Is what you are doing appropriate for...