A couple of years ago I picked up a book called One Great Game by Don Wallace, it was about a game about De la Salle High School from Concord California against Long Beach Ploy high school from Long Beach California. The account of the De La Salle program left me amazed and wanted to know more. For those of you that don’t follow it De La Salle owns the record for consecutive wins at 151 gam [...]

Just because you are an elite athlete do you really need a stretching coach, a strength coach, a massage therapist, a technique coach, a speed coach and a conditioning coach? I came a across an article about an elite athlete the other day who was taking this approach. This is actually quite common. Isn’t this a little over the top? I wonder if they all have certifications for their specialt [...]

It was interesting reading the responses on This Stuff Has to Stopbecause Ryan Lee’s name came up several times. I really think he is theultimate source of all this nonsense. He has made a business out ofteaching people how to be internet “experts.” He seems to have noregard for quality or content it is all about packaging or branding. Helike Brian Grasso sucked me into writing a [...]

Sometime thispast year I was contacted by a person named Brian Grasso to do aninterview on athletic development for youth. Since this is a passion ofmine I agreed and did the interview. I understood that it would be usedfor a pod cast. Instead he is using the interview and by association myname to sell product and endorse his certification. I deplore this; Ido not endorse his products or his group [...]

I am continually amazed at howexperience is both undervalued and overvalued. It is overvalued becausewe get caught in the trap of thinking of experience in terms of yearsrather than what went into the years. My mentor and friend Joe Vigil putit quite well when he said to me one time: “You can have thirty tearsexperience by having the same experience thirty times or you can have anew experie [...]

I think theongoing dialogue in regard to my posts about getting it and the musclehead mentality has really been quite good and interesting. In the next week or two I will post more on the concept of adaptability and creating adaptable athletes. Manyof you have asked me to give specific examples and some ideas andprogressions of things I've used and things that I've seen to achievethis. [...]

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 must admit I left with my head spinning. Not 100% sure what I expected, it had been three years since I last attended the NSCA Convention. The attendance was certainly impressive. The composition of the attendees seemed to be different than three years ago, less personal trainers more people oriented to performance. That also may reflect bias, because you do see what you are looking for. I could [...]

Let me start by saying that I am all for education and knowledge. I feel even more strongly than I ever have that more certification does not mean more knowledge; in fact there are so many certifications now that it is confusing. Do we have more knowledge because of these certifications or do we have more information being passed around as knowledge. How many letters can you have after your name b [...]

You ask who is Charlie Mattison? Charlie is a friend of Steve Myrland in Madison, Wisconsin. Charlie is a veteran PE teacher who is very passionate about what he does. At present Charlie is in Bagdad serving with the Wisconsin National Guard. Here are a few thoughts from a letter he wrote in response to Steve sharing with him some ridiculous mindless stuff presented at the Wisconsin State PE confe [...]