Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Words
Communication is the essence of coaching. Obviously there is verbal and non-verbal communication. Lets focus on verbal communication. What you say and how you say it has incredible power to convey the...
Changing the World
The challenge of the day is: What are you doing today to change your world? Notice I did not the world I said your world. It is the only world you have the power to change on a daily basis. Your world...
Meaningful Training
There is training that is just work and leads nowhere – this is training as performance. This is the Crossfit WOD mentality that each workout is an end unto itself and must be as hard as possible to b...
Getting Better
The daily challenge for you and your athletes is getting better. How do you get better? How much better can you get? It is a simple proposition: How much better do you want to be? How far out of your ...
Training Mistakes – Part Two
Repetitious Exercises This usually overloads one area or one component; the end result is a poor training response. I always say hunt with a rifle, not a shotgun. Training to failure This leads to fai...
Training Mistakes – Part One
The following is a list of some mistakes that I have made in my coaching and teaching. If you learn from your mistakes I should be a genius, but unfortunately some of the lessons were only learned aft...
The Bowerman Influence
Bill Bowerman had a huge influence on my decision to be a track coach. In the winter of 1968; my senior year in college at Fresno Sate Bowerman came to speak as the featured speaker at the first ever ...
Simplicity Yields Complexity
I am a simplifier. If I can’t explain it in five minutes or less and explain to someone who knows nothing about training an athlete then I should reconsider what I am trying to do. The following is a ...
Training Session Management
In coaching there are three management functions 1) Training Session Management 2) Competition Management 3) Injury management In this post I will give you some ideas on Training Session Management. T...