Jacques Piasenta helped develop world class athletes in France for decades, and his Physical Education background is a huge component of that. Lately we are seeing a lot of powerpoint slides of gurus talking about talking. Cues, magic words, internal and external influences? Don't believe the hype. Instead of listening to people who are filtering their impression of coaching, listen to those that [...]

I am approaching 15 years of coaching, or about a quarter of the way through my journey as a person who enjoys being part of sport. I am not a guru or even a collegiate super coach, but just a guy who is seeking the truth. At times the truth was rather humbling and now it's more exciting because it's about the relationship, not just the accolades. Unfortunately the process of getting better has [...]

We talk a lot about having our athletes get out of their comfort zones to move forward and progress. How about us? As coaches we all have our comfort zones. Some of us are good in certain areas. Some of us can prepare an athlete for a league or a district meet and then are out of our element when we have to prepare for a state of national competition. In short we all have our comfort zones. Step b [...]

Anyone not going to BMSPG this year will be missing some great people. I am happy that Art Horne got Dr. Cardinale, Dr. McGill, Fergus Connolly, Bob Alejo, Randy Huntington, and other great people such as Bill Knowles and Mark Lindsay. I strongly suggest attending if you can, as the Keynote presenter will be Marco Cardinale from Great Britain. London was a big success overall, but it will be inter [...]

"These tests are a big psychological builder. When the athlete has control of her times, she also controls her own psychology and physiology.”-Santiago Antunez The beauty of Athletics is that you must eventually get people better. Talent matters of course, but what keeps me hungry is the fact that great coaches have humbled so many by producing such wonderful performers. I am frankly tired each [...]

The missing link in today’s coaching is pedagogy. Webster’s defines Pedagogy as: the art, science, or profession of teaching. The term generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction. My generation of coaches was trained as teachers. We learned teaching methodology and teaching methods as an integral part of our education. A huge influence on my approach to coaching fr [...]

I will make this blog short as most of my blogs are often long and struggle with direction. One of the best presentations on strength and conditioning was done recently and the slides are available here. The information is missing the speaker of course and no power point can replace the person, but this is what is available. Too many times I see presentations that are more infomercial than informa [...]

After Jose Fernandez mentioned Klipfolio in his stellar interview I was a little worried that the good stuff was being leaked. Now on twitter I am seeing a lot of action with big names such as Marco Cardinale and Mladen Jovanovic. I am excited to see what Fergus Connolly presents at BSMPG this year as Art Horne has lined up many of the requested speakers and it should sell out soon. My prediction [...]

I was forwarded and likely baited two links to therapy about how foam rolling and tennis ball rolling of the feet were producing "great results" and I was taken back how one can not see the problems with the study designs. My belief is that American sport science's main export to the international community is placebo. Americans are masters of placebo. We are brilliant in snake oil that I think [...]

Lets not fool ourselves to get better you have to do the work, that is a given. Make no mistake that everyone who achieves at a high level does the work. All that being said just doing the work is not enough, anyone can work it is work with direction and purpose that produces results. We have this mistaken notion more prevalent today because of the “10,000 hour” myth that all you need to do is [...]