Athletic Development – Defining the Field
Focus on the Process – The Pursuit Of Excellence Has It’s Own Rewards
Foundational Beliefs #3 Focus on the Process – The Pursuit Of Excellence Has It’s Own Rewards It is so easy to get caught with results either in training and competition and lose sight of...
It Is Always About The Athlete
Foundational Beliefs #2 – It Is Always About The Athlete It is so easy to get caught up in the intricacies of technique and training and lose focus on the athlete. It is the athlete we are guidi...
Coach & Teach The Way You Would Want To Be Coached & Taught
Foundational Beliefs #1- Coach & Teach The Way You Would Want To Be Coached & Taught One of my biggest motivations in coaching is to NOT coach the way I was coached when I played football in c...
Foundational Beliefs – Guiding Lights
The following are some of the basic tenants that I believe in as a coach. These are foundational beliefs that make up the pillars of my coaching philosophy. I was taught from day one as a coach that t...
The Posterior Chain – Why?
Ten years ago I never heard the term “posterior chain” now I see it everywhere in both training and rehab literature. What is the posterior chain? Why did it appear out of nowhere? Is it a meaningful ...
The Science of Running by Steve Magness
If you coach any type of endurance athlete get this book. Even though it is about running it applies directly to swimming, biking, cross country skiing and triathlon. Read it, re-read it and apply the...
More to it than meets the eye?
In the nine years I have been writing this blog I have written many times about the role of warm-up. Despite that I continue to be amazed at the lack of understanding about this crucial part of the tr...
STOP – Don’t Just Do it!
One of the biggest enemies of excellence is just doing do it. Just doing it is in most cases is good, but there is a big difference between good and great. So much of training consists of mundane task...
What does it take to develop athletes?
In researching for my new book and several other projects I am working on I keep coming back to what it takes to develop athletes? There is certainly not one formula or one clearly defined model. If a...