Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Functional Path Training Blog – Update
Ever since I started this blog in the summer of 2005 an ongoing theme has been exploring myths, misconceptions, half-truths and lies. I doubt that will change. I think because I am informed skeptic wh...
GAIN 2022 In the Books – Best Ever!
GAIN 2022 was amazing! After being online for two years it was so great to be back together in person. Special thank you to those behind the scenes that helped to make it special: Martin Bingisser who...
Building and Rebuilding the Complete Athlete
Interested to hear from any of you that attended this seminar. I started teaching it in 1992. Taught three that year and four each subsequent year until 1996. From 1996 to 2003 I taught twelve a year....
Food for Thought?
When you are planning your training program or evaluating your program, I have found it very helpful to ask the following simple and very basic questions: Strong for What? Fast for What? Fit for What?...
Learning the Craft – The La Cumbre Years 1969 to 1973
My first four years coaching were at La Cumbre Junior High School in Santa Barbara California, in the neighborhood where I grew up. I taught Physical Education and over the four years there I coached ...
Body of Work
I am a coach who specializes in being a generalist. I do this by being a synthesizer, connecting the dots in seemingly disparate areas looking for similarities, differences and patterns that may not b...
Common Training Mistakes Relating to Poor Planning
It does not have to be hard to be good – Each workout is part of a larger picture. If you put their backs to the wall in each training session you will quickly lose sight of the big picture. Eve...
Coloring Outside the Lines
Do you remember when you were a child, and you got your first coloring book and box of crayons. Remember the instructions to color inside the lines because that was the way you were supposed to it. Yo...
Making Shapes
Looking at shapes will give you a different perspective on viewing, analyzing, and effecting change in movement. Look closely at the shapes your athlete must make while performing in their sport. Then...