Here's a thought provoking article from the Washington Post's Paul Farhi:World records fell like the Amazon rain at the World Swimming Championships that ended last Sunday in Australia. Led by the indomitable Michael Phelps, who set five records, swimmers in Melbourne cruised to the best times ever in 11 events. It's a remarkable outburst of history-making performances, but the fac [...]

I must admit when I first heard Wayne Goldsmith, an Australian sports scientist, speak about this I was a bit put off. My thought was how can focus on winning the workout and still have something left for competition? The more I thought about it the more sense it made. Before I can ever think about winning in competition I must win the workouts consistently. It is a mindset that each athlete must [...]

Because my wife and I are expecting our first child in less than a month we've both decided to take a year hiatus from serious athletic pursuits since the competitive season calendar of our current sport of choice came at an inconvenient time (now) and competing was quite time intensive. As a result, I've been taking a much less structured approach to training for the past couple months. I [...]

It's 4:30 am and I'm awake so I can be ready for 5:30 am practice. Usually there's a greater chance I'm still awake at this time than there is of me having woken up. Not a regular occurrence by any means but something we're forced to do several times a year when the athletes are allowed 'pass' on holiday weekends such as this one. Pass basically just means they are allo [...]

There are some loosely substantiated rumors floating around on the internet that Marion Jones is pregnant with Obadele Thompson's child and the two are set to marry. For those who haven't followed track and field for the past 10 years (what are you doing on this site then?), Marion Jones is the second fastest woman of all-time. Oba Thompson isn't too shabby himself. He's run a 9.87 [...]

As I was putting together my team for the IAAF World Championships Fantasy League...I started to look through the IAAF lists to make sure I wasn't missing anyone to put on my team.  As someone who doesn't look at the world rankings list too often, the thing that really stood out to me was how amazing the Russian women are. They are AT LEAST as good and deep as our men's and women& [...]

As many of you know I’m the proud father of a new baby girl. She’s now just over 6 months old. I love spending time with her and watching her physical, motor, and cognitive development. It truly is amazing. From time to time, I’ll work out with my daughter. No, we’re not doing cleans together or hill sprints….we go running together in a stroller sometimes or maybe I& [...]

I was inspired to write this on a red eye flight from Portland back to Sarasota on Friday night, impossible to sleep but a good time to think. Perhaps this will stimulate some thoughts for you and inspire you to lead. Focus, focus, focus – A laser like focus is imperative to leadChose to lead rather than to follow, you can’t lead from behind the pack Do the right thing and success will [...]

This is a passionate plea for sanity. I have seen and heard more misinformation, confusion passed off as knowledge and twenty and thirty something strength coaches and quasi experts with one experience repeated ten or 12 years that I have decided to stop mincing more words and confront this head on. If you are hanging your hat on an exercise, a machine or one concept then what you are doing is cre [...]

I was privileged to attend the USA Track & Field Coaching at Loyola University in Chicago from June 30 to July 3. I attended the presentations by Frans Bosch to Sprints and Jumps group. He did six presentations on six topics. I found them all very thought provoking and stimulating. He is an individual who literally combines art and science. He is an artist and brings the creativity and the eye of [...]