I was going to talk about Day 1 of the BSMPG conference but I frankly was not there the whole time and much better writers exist and I am burnt out of blogging I wanted to finish strong without compromise. Since every conference has VIP and pre pre conference work I simply ran out of juice before the conference began and Friday evening dinner was perhaps the most interesting. Everyone talks about [...]

The pre-conference workshop was 5:15 on Thursday and I made sure I left about an hour ahead to beat Boston traffic into Northeastern. Art has hosted the BSMPG for years and is having pre conference workshops to stimulate learning and allow great people to network. The main interest I have is seeing the cross-fertilization of ideas from different people. If we have the same cult year after year we [...]

Last weekend my track and field team brought home their 6th district plaque in 7 years. Obviously, this is a difficult task to accomplish and I couldn’t be more proud of this group. The weather has been horrible all spring with wind, rain, and lots of snow. In addition we lost a couple of our best distance runners this year/last year due to relocation out of town. Outside of track my family has [...]

Mike Young did a great interview with Andreas a while ago, and I wanted to get more into detail about why I believe Andreas will be one of the new blood that will trickle down to new coaches. He is perhaps one of the most generous coaches in sharing, and he deserves all the accolades he gets now. He has paid his dues and I am one of his fans. I looked at some of the questions and can only comment [...]

Numbers are not good or evil, they simply are hosts to context. A lot of hype and commercialism now with technology and training with people monitoring and looking at player tracking data. When I was young I got a magic set when I was young and being a product of the 1980s, I thought I was going to be the next David Copperfield. I am a fan of magic still, and love seeing street magic in New York, [...]

When one doesn't see a catching blog title, the tone gets serious. While I see new articles of enlightenment (excuses) of why people should not do what works because they can't do it well, coaches like Brendon motivate me everyday. People have attacked him because he is good or desperately want to pigeonhole him because he "olympic lifts". What can he know about running mechanics? What could h [...]

What if ego is tossed aside and coaching was just about outcomes? My previous post was a focus on understanding that cueing is a part of coaching, not the root of it. With debates that I just walked away from recently, many coaches have emailed me asking what is driving such hype and marketing? Most of best coaches I have seen have a wonderful balance of what to say and when to pause. Feedback is [...]

One of the strangest emails I received was regarding the athlete's village in Rio, and what possible approaches to super families will be made with different federations or individual couples. Many athletes spend hours training and relationships are fostered between world class athletes. With so many elite athletes getting married to other world class athletes in pro sports, the age old problem o [...]

The irony of the picture is the FMS tool in the background, and should be be rethinking the limits of movement screens? With so many teams using it we are not seeing improvements in injury reduction? I use movement screens and believe in some of the tests in the FMS such as the overhead squat, but my concern is that we are not looking at the bigger picture or zooming into the smaller one. Let's t [...]

One of the current discussions on teaching is the use of cues and feel that the best approach is task given and letting the athletes figure it out. Athletes have brains and letting them use them right is the correct approach. Magic words sometimes work by wizard coaches , but if you are the Sorcerer's Apprentice, remember it's best to start off with light spells before getting into the more arca [...]