Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Future Olympians?
The 2020 Olympians are 14 to 18 years old and the 2024 Olympians are 10 to 14 years old right now. For me that is cause for alarm. Why? Sport does exist independent of society it reflects society. We ...
Preseason Training
Preseason training & training Camps are usually characterized by multiple practices in a day. In my experience this is the genesis of many more negatives than positives. The resulting residual fat...
Meaningful Measurement
Just because it is convenient or easy to measure some physical quality does mean that the measure is meaningful. If you do measure it (whatever it is) make sure it is meaningful and will yield actiona...
No Short Cuts
Don’t believe the marketing hype, there are no shortcuts to improved performance. Gains that are easily attained are cannot sustained. There are no quick fixes when something is amiss. Crash programs ...
Can Do
I see too much emphasis on limitations and dysfunctions either imposed from the outside because of results on an artificial movement screen or self-imposed by the athlete. As a coach I am much more in...
Coaching Simply To Coach Effectively
Ask yourself are you a complexifier or a simplifier? Heed the advice of Einstein: “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” Einstein may not have been thinking abo...
Gaelic Athletics True Sport
On Sunday July 12 we got to see an amazing athletic event the Munster Hurling final between Cork and Limerick. What a sport – it completely captured me. Curling along with Gaelic Football is part of t...
The Art of Tapering & Peaking
A few thoughts on taper and peaking, the swim teams I work with are in this process now with championship meets all coming in the next month so this has been on my mind. The effectiveness of the taper...
Hamstring Solutions
The solutions to the issue of the explosion of hamstring are quite straightforward. Here some of the things that have worked for my colleagues and me. All of these take a deep commitment to coaching m...