Many of you emailed me last night regarding the Overtraining CD and it was not an advertisement, just a reminder that even in the internet age information is not always easily available. What is exciting is Håkan Andersson is having his annual seminar on training, and it should be a good one. I am going to be especially interested to see how much Pfaff or Tellez influence has when Takanori shares [...]

About 10 years ago in Sweden, Håkan Andersson was one of the organizers to a private seminar in Stockholm. I was invited of course because it was on overtraining, but could not attend the set of presentations by the top people in the sport. Information from Marco Cardinale, Tapani Keränen, Henk Kraaijenhof, Mehis Viru, Göran Kenttä, and Dave Clark was outstanding, but how many other resources [...]

It's no mystery that we have a lot of focus on internal versus external cueing and this is out of hand. If someone is too narrow or too wide in a squat stance, just tell them. No need for excessive analogies. Sometimes good cues done too much or at the wrong time create excessive recruitment when muscles need to relax. It's not easy to get athletes to relax, especially if fatigue shows up a lit [...]

I went to GAIN a few years ago and much of the education was on the PCA or Physical Competence Assessment for those who only are familiar with the FMS. The PCA is frankly a better tool in my opinion because it has no constraints. The overhead squat is not owned by any system, so even the PCA can be disrupted by better ways to get more relevant information. Recently my comments on corrective exerci [...]

At the end of the season it is very important to take a deep breath and evaluate your season. I think it is always good to write down the things that went well and the things that didn’t go so great. As a coach every year you will need to make minor adjustments. I want to emphasis the word minor. After a really good year we may want to ignore things that can grow into problems if left unchecked. [...]

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Stu and Henk have two very different posts in regards to working with athletes. I find it difficult each week to blog about something such as the difference between listening our bodies and using science to help with that sixth sense. I find myself not in the middle, but on both sides at the same time. No coach is perfect, but the advantage is being closer in accuracy in running the program versus [...]

"after each day the club requires players to log in and record how much they have eaten and of what to better control what goes into the bodies of the players and control differing levels of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and sugars. "-bleedinggreennation.comIn the NFL, the Philadelphia Eagles is getting a lot of attention for integrating sport science into their program. One comment I will say i [...]

I think it's ok to do conditioning tests to gage fitness. Testing and Monitoring are similar, but after reviewing the notes I have with some workshops the monitoring hype needs to calm down. First, watching heart rate and GPS data on small-sided games is not coaching or sport science, just pretending to be busy when the general issues such as doing the basics or trying to get get better is not at [...]

I just wanted to link to the Tucson Kettlebell blog post on the craziness of corrective exercise. It was nice to see another voice in the dark here, but we need to start looking at the issue more now that we are heading towards a data driven and evidence based therapy world. Craig Liebenson had this link on social media and it's nice to see therapists driving out of the nonsense. Instead of longw [...]