Just a quick update for those wishing to read some good blog content. Here are four blogs I read and I think you should check out from time to time. Over in Arizona a great collection of people are writing some thought provoking information. For me I read blogs to see what other's are doing as it's easier to leverage the blogosphere for learning and getting good information. Here are 4 nice read [...]

When I get back from Trinidad I am going to start work on a new book on game changers. What is a game changer? A game changer is a person, idea, method or event that changed or is changing the way we train and play sport. Here are a few that I have so far:Nort Thornton – SwimmingDoc Counsilman – Swimming and training in generalBob Hoffman – Strength TrainingBob Gajda – Functional TrainingL [...]

Here are some of my thoughts on training middle distance and distance runners. I continue to be amazed at the things that I see going on in training. We have been down this path so many times before I am amazed that the same questions are being asked and the same mistakes are repeated. In my 41 year coaching career I have been fortunate to work with some great middle distance and distance athlete [...]

I am doing a private intensive workshop on hamstring injuries in late June and I am excited to hear feedback from several sports medicine staff members . This is perhaps the most detailed summary of what the leading therapists in North America are actually doing regarding soft tissue injuries from fascial work, cyriax work, body alignment, foot biomechanics, EMS, aquatic therapy, and strength trai [...]

Sometimes we get too wrapped up in the mode of strength training and lose sight of what we are trying to accomplish. Select a mode of strength training that is appropriate to the sport are training for. Do not lock yourself in to one mode. For example, pulling movements can be accomplished in a variety of ways using a variety of implements. It all depends on the ultimate goal. If you accept that s [...]

Getting strong is relatively easy, but preparing to get strong is hard. This is not to demean or disparage anyone's ideas, rather it is reaction to what I have seen throughout my career. It is easy to get someone on a strength training program and load them up and make very significant measurable strength gains on traditional exercises in relatively short periods of time. There is nothing wrong w [...]

What books don't you lend out? That question was asked the other day and I will respond with some specific respond. I have a lot of books and videos but most are not priceless. Go to bookfinder and you can find them for a price, sometimes dirt cheap sometimes very expensive. What to me is important are not the writers but the coaches who put down their beliefs and solutions. Perhaps a fight with [...]

Many times a stage will share what the illusionist wants you to see. This happens now on the internet and at some seminars where the presenter shares videos of athletes, before and after pictures of posture, and of course corrective exercises that feed the audience. Tom Myers did a great job of sharing 18-24 months of work, in order to work. If I was a GA at a D1 program I would videotape guys lif [...]

In the final installment in this series on training injured athletes I'm going to take a look at an athlete who I've written about before on this blog and who many of you have helped out through financial donations or kind words. I am of course writing of Jade Ellis who now has the dubious distinction of having ruptured both Achilles tendons, with the left one being the most recent injury only 5 [...]

Posture is not easy. Some athletes walk around like they lost the Superbowl and this is why I like Alan's talk at the BSMGP. Alan brought up the fact that personality has a correlation between injuries with athletes, perhaps hinting that corrective exercise is not the panacea many think. He saw the relationship between the art of coaching and sports science (namely sports medicine). When I read a [...]