Many times we are proud as coaches of what we do and use youtube as a way to share with the world our accomplishments. Still, let's focus on every athlete that may not be the star. One of my own coaches made an effort that the slowest person on the team still be a model on how to do things the right way...just a little bit slower. Lesson learned for today is don't post a youtube video of athlete [...]

Who needs supplements when you can have a nutrient-rich super food like the one being made by Jimmy-Dean-hawking Paula Deen. Nothing says high-performance meal like a hamburger, a fried egg, a couple pieces of bacon, and 2 donuts. I'm glad I've found it in time for the start of the indoor track season. I think it will make a perfect pre-meet meal! [...]

Given the humor of the last 2 posts and the fact that such laughable training means were not only posted on YouTube but presumably posted by a coach who has been recognized as a leader in the field I thought it would be fun to make a YouTube hall of shame. If you've seen any goodies out there that can trump what's been already posted post a link in the forums. If we laugh hard enough perhaps we [...]

Thanks to our friends on Elitetrack.com we have more Guru Gotcha moments with this Santa Claus training program. After this link was posted on the blog discussion thread I had to professionally refute this method of training. I am not sure if Coach Dos is getting ready for Reindeer Combine training after the holidays but this nonsense is an example of what I call entertrainment. Entertrainment is [...]

Terms and phrases barge into our consciousness and are then used and re-used, often imprecisely, until whatever meaning they may have originally held erodes and they are left as shriveled and bankrupt as the word “LITE” on ice-cream containers and beer bottles. As McLuhan observed: “When a thing is current, it creates currency.” That is: an idea becomes accepted simply [...]

Some of the recent posts on the the forum have examined skill acquisition, movement accuracy and other motor learning concepts. With this in mind, I thought I'd take the liberty to make the leap to this insane video of some insane skill levels in some otherwise ridiculous and meaningless tasks. Check it out. You'll be amazed. [...]

While I do have a physioball that I used as my office chair at West Point and I don't have any problem with them being a PART of a balanced core training routine, this video pretty much sums up my feelings on unstable surface training and the way it's been pushed as the or athletic development. By the way, what is "Core Stability"? Has anyone seen a reasonable definition that holds up against [...]

There was a google adsense ad on the bottom of the page for LINK REMOVED and I couldn't help but click on the link. What a pleasant surprise! The site is like a comedy of errors and half-truths. Let's play a variation on "Where's Waldo"....check out the site and post your top 3 errors / funnies / untruths to the forum. [...]

I titled this Foamy Grossness part II only because this is my second go at a post-workout 4:1 homemade CHO/PRO shake. This time I put a little more effort than my late night debacle. The hope was to make this only from supermarket materials, but there were some key ingredients that I had to order online. Dehydrated Milk Powder - 8 g PRO/ 12 g CHO - 3 servings for 24g/36gDextrose - 16 g (approx. 4 [...]

Check out these results from this past weekend's IC4A championships at Princeton. All who were in the competition had jumped over 2m to qualify.I know what happened. Do you? Kudos to the person who can give the closest complete explanation for the odd results. [...]