Browsing: long term athlete development

“Sometimes in the peaking process, it is not what you do, it is what you don’t do.” John Larralde, track coach speaking at GAIN on preparing his milers to win…

The most common default when making the choice between more work or less work in training is to do more volume. After all it is easier to quantify more jumps,…

Warm-up and cooldown are essential parts of the whole training process. It is helpful to think of the warm-up as preparation for training and cooldown as a reset to prepare…

I was first introduced to the concept of Hard/Easy at the first clinic I attended in January 1968 by Bill Bowerman, the coach at University of Oregon. The Hard/Easy concept…

My first four years coaching were at La Cumbre Junior High School in Santa Barbara California, in the neighborhood where I grew up. I taught Physical Education and, over the…