Separating fact from opinion is one of the hardest challenges coaches face. It’s human nature for perspective to be clouded. And, notions of effective coaching are not immune to the myths of success (e.g. falling prey to it’s always been done that way and struggling to distinguish between because of and in spite of.) “Stay down in your stance… Don’t cross your feet when …
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 …
Joe Bonai produces and shares a lot of very good stuff. In a recent post, he gives a thorough breakdown of what he calls a “Cut Stop” (Don’t get caught up in the name, delve into the concept and theory.) Here’s what he says… There’s one exercise that will decrease ACL injury-risk, immediately and dramatically …
This is a nice piece from ESPN’s Sport Science… Well done. /sef. Thanks @CoachLok for the share! #thankthepasser
The following article was taken from the Z-Health newsletter. I really enjoyed it and thought it worth sharing. There is a popular saying in sports: “speed kills.” Ask almost any coach in any game and they will say that what they daydream about the most is a team of ultra-fast players. But what does it …
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 …
The science of sport training and athlete development are two areas that most coaches definitely lag behind the rest of the world in basketball. Sportskool.com is a website dedicated to delivering in-depth sports instruction and coaching for a wide range of sports and athletic activities. I can’t say that I was overwhelmed with the basketball …
If A equal success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. – Albert Einstein. “Sport is play. As children we thought of running around and moving as play, and we loved to do it. As adults we call it …
The Sport Canada has updated its Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) and Canadian Sport For Life website: www.ltad.ca. A parent recently asked me to post the links to the theLLaBB, so here you go: Competition is a Good Servant, but a Poor Master – NEW! This document addresses the issues associated with the current structure of …