How many times have you had people tell you could not do something? I have and for me I always took it as a challenge. Thank God I never listened to all the people who told me I could not do the things I have done. I truly believe people say this to put limits on people, because they cannot imagine doing the things they say can’t be done themselves. I was labeled stupid more once during elementa [...]

I work with a variety of athletes from different events in Track & Field as well as many athletes from other sports. Although the technical and biomotor qualities necessary for success may be very different across the spectrum of events and activities I train, one training commonality is that everyone sprints. At least a little bit. There’s an obvious need for some type of sprint training in [...]

The sad part of speed is that so many people train it out of their athletes. Especially with the endurance athletes, but I even see with speed and power athletes. It is about quality not quantity. Start with warm-up, some of these elaborate hour and fifteen minute warm-ups that include every drill under the sun are just getting the athlete tired not ready for explosive effort. Speed is about quali [...]

It is always interesting at this time of the year at the start of spring training and with the NFL combine to read the stories of how people have changed their technique. I have been following the Tim Tebow story with great interest. Apparently he has a team of “experts’ who have completely revamped his throwing style. He is not going to unveil his new technique at the NFL CONbine, but will wa [...]

I am reading Seth Godin’s new book Linchpin (Really thought provoking so far), he got me thinking of how hard people work at being average. It caused me to reflect on people and situations I have seen throughout my career. He is absolutely correct; people that are average, into job preservation really do work at it. They avoid risk and conflict for fear that someone will notice them. They talk m [...]

When I picked up the paper and saw that the New York Yankees has won their 27th championship all I could think of was sustained excellence. Literally since I was an athlete in high school and vaguely entertaining the thought of coaching sustained excellence has been a fascination for me. There was a school in our league, Santa Clara High School, that year in year out was dominant in football and b [...]

Preseason, two or three times a day practice is almost here in American football, collegiate soccer and volleyball. Each of the past three years at close to the same I have posted on this. In my 40 years of coaching and my additional four years of enduring six years of two and sometimes three a day practices as a football player I am convinced that this is where more championship are lost than won [...]

Yesterday the NY Times had the following article on the front page tiltled “Increasing Pace of Injuries.” I am formulating a detailed reply with specific ideas, recommendations and further questions for consideration. I will state though that this problem is bigger than baseball. The injury rate in most major professional sports needs to be addressed; it is more than a baseball problem. [...]

The following piece from yesterday's NY Times sports page made me decide to write this. Someone needs to set the record straight. The former Mets pitching coach Rick Peterson, who for 20 years has pioneered biomechanic analysis of pitching motions, said that he shielded athletes from the physics behind what they do. You can’t build a car and drive one at the same time,” Peterson said. “When [...]

I went to the Mets and Redsox game last week and had the chance to see a client of our Elite Athlete Network in action. It was great to see the effects of world class therapy and body alignment work in action. Still, baseball is in a strange transition as the sport is being hit by a lot of doping issues. The BALCO fallout is going to be a blessing in disguise if athletes decide to be progressive i [...]