[This is a guest post by John Grace. John is one of my assistant coaches. For a year he worked at my training center, Athletic Lab and he recently joined me in Vancouver to work with Whitecaps FC. John has his CSCS and USATF Level 1 certifications and coaches youth to professional athletes] An elite Track & Field athlete may only have a few major competitions in the season. Those few competitions [...]

Mike Young did a great interview with Andreas a while ago, and I wanted to get more into detail about why I believe Andreas will be one of the new blood that will trickle down to new coaches. He is perhaps one of the most generous coaches in sharing, and he deserves all the accolades he gets now. He has paid his dues and I am one of his fans. I looked at some of the questions and can only comment [...]

Performance and Sports Medicine information is the currency, and information now is faster and more demanding than ever. What is the best information? Who has it? How do we validate it? What is private and what should be public? Who do we learn from? What are primary and secondary resources? I recently read Shawn Windle's article on the 40 yard dash and was concerned about the response and what w [...]

I just left the theater with my wife and it got me thinking about how we need try to look for the silver lining. Recently across the United States had been hit by multiple massive snow storms. Some of the worst of these storms were in Missouri where I coach. Of course our winter had been mild with little action until the start of spring sports. Now in our first week of outdoor track we have only b [...]

[This is a guest post by Drake Webster. Drake is one of the coaches at my training center, Athletic Lab. Drake has his CSCS and USATF Level 1 certifications and coaches youth to professional athletes at Athletic Lab] Recently I watched the 30 for 30 ESPN special titled 9.79. This was a documentary of the events of the 1988 summer Olympics when Ben Johnson of Canada broke the world record in the 10 [...]

[This is a guest post by John Grace. John is one of the coaches at my training center, Athletic Lab. John has his CSCS and USATF Level 1 certifications and coaches youth to professional athletes at Athletic Lab] A little over a month ago, I was lucky enough to attend the USA Track & Field Level 1 Certification with some of the best coaches in the United States in their respective fields: Loren Sea [...]

While I am happy to see medicine ball use increase over the last decade, I have seen some "bro" knowledge approaches and sloppy use of the system. I have also seen a lot of "cons" with education of people sharing some magic solutions to performance with just 3 x 6 reps of the magic medicine ball. Coming from a classic USATF environment as well as a swimming background, I feel that medicine bal [...]

When speed gurus come up we hear a crop of names that seem to come to mind, but Tony Wells is one of the few master coaches in the USATF ranks. He has produced for as long as I have lived, and after more than three decades of coaching he is gone. Months ago I thought google or twitter would be sharing more about this great man but it seems that SEO and affiliate marketing is more important than lo [...]

After my visit to the Olympic training Center I came back with a new perspective on training, coaching, and life. I couldn’t help to think how far I have come in a relatively short time. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was a coach’s nightmare in college (talented, injury prone, and opinionated). Now here I stand at the OTC as a coach trying to push the limits of my knowledge, philosophy [...]

It happens. Sometimes mysteriously, or sometime eventually. At the end of every life death is waiting. At the end of every career retirement is there like the grim reaper. Somewhere between the start and end of a season a crash may occur, or a time when an athlete is injured or just hits a wall and performs poorly. Most of the time like a crime scene coaches are able to see why, only after steppin [...]