Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Practice Based Evidence & Coaching Significance
In the move to evidence based practice are we shooting ourselves in the foot once again? So much “evidence based practice” is questionable, inaccurate, fraudulent or flat out wrong. I put my stock in ...
Free The Children
We are effectively working hard to destroy a generation of children by what we are doing and not doing to them in the name of education. The headline in our local paper last Sunday was: Mandatory Cram...
LTAD – Let Them Be Kids First!
It is one thing to say that young athletes are not miniature adults and then to turn around and treat them as miniature adults by imposing adult training, competition and practice schedules on them. T...
Some More Books for Educated Coaches
Here are some that I neglected to share last week. I want to call you attention to two true classics – Science of Swimming by Doc Councilman and Modern Training For Running by Ken Doherty. These are t...
The Trouble with 40 Yard Dash Times
This article is way off base. http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/3/1/4038740/2013-nfl-combine-high-school-40-yard-dash-times It assumes that all 40-yard dash times are comparable. There is ...
Guru or Coach
Guru is all about style – Coach is all substance Guru is a fountain of information & disconnected facts – Coach is about knowledge Guru has secret training methods – The coach is...
Focused Training
Multitasking does not work in life nor does it work in training. In designing and implementing an effective training session focus is essential. It is tempting to include more, to tick off the boxes s...
Some Books for Educated Coaches
Here are books that I recommend if you want to consider yourself an educated coach. All these books are books I find myself referring to on an ongoing basis. Some are classics and some are contemporar...
Seeing Things Differently
Are you seeing what you want to see or what is actually happening? There is an old aphorism that is particularly appropriate: “You don’t need to see different things, but rather to see things differen...