Consider the Source
Consider the Source The sports coaching field is filled with information, especially with the internet, social media, and pdf’s. It can be overwhelming and impossible to keep up with. When I...
Real World Strength and Conditioning
How coaches use strength and conditioning to improve the performance of their athletes
Found Time
As a teacher and coach I’m obsessed with time, it defines my professional life. This week on Thursday and Friday something unusual happened, we got inches of rain. Like it rained nonstop...
Vampires
I wanted to take this post and talk about something that’s really important for a coach and a teacher, time and energy vampires. For those of you not familiar with these, time...
Run Fast to be Fast
I put out a tweet about speed training a while ago, to the effect that using sprints as punishment or sprinting until one is sick is not a good way to develop...
Coaching Has to Adapt to the Athlete
I got an interesting email a few days ago about an athlete with Down Syndrome, competing at a pretty high level in sport, that wasn’t responding well to the coach’s approach. This...