I love creative coaching! And, earlier this week I stumbled upon Fitness Quest 10’s Brett Klika. Check out this video he recently posted called ‘Foundational Strength‘. In it, Klika walks you through a fun and effective progression for helping young athletes develop the functional strength to do push-ups. What’s So Important About Push Ups? As …
Here’s a video that I picked up from Swedish coach and friend David Leman’s blog: Leman Coaching. (BTW – If you can translate Swedish, let me know. I know he’s got more nuggets on his site, but I just can’t understand them!) In the video, Lithuanian coach, Evaldas Kandratavicius, takes a young basketball player through …
What’s the difference between your core and your pillar? Are they the same thing? Why is it even important to you as an athlete or coach? In this video from EXOS, Performance Specialist, Nick Winkelman, does a great job of explaining it all in layman’s terms. “Most people think your abs and lower back comprise …
Really enjoyed this article, The Everything Push-Up, by Nick Tumminello and was able to walk away with some very good ideas for training: “The other day I decided to break from my low carb ways and have a bagel. Bagels aren’t normally my first choice as a splurge food, but I got a weird craving. …
I’ll stay on theme here with this video from Core Performance on what they’ve termed, “The World’s Greatest Stretch.”
NYtimes.com has a very good article posted called, Stretching: The Truth. “The old presumption that holding a stretch for 20 to 30 seconds — known as static stretching — primes muscles for a workout is dead wrong. It actually weakens them.” Check out the article as it’s a quick read and challenges old paradigms of …
… (a.k.a. the Cayman Islands) after having been back in Canada these past few weeks. One of the reasons I was there was for Canada Basketball’s Centre for Performance (CP). They’re are up and running across the country and we hosted the men’s and women’s CP head coaches in Hamilton, Ontario, for our annual Head …