Browsing: recovery and restoration

The key to recovery and proper adaptation is good planning. Plan the recovery days. It goes back to Bill Bowerman’s Hard/Easy principle, an easy session following a hard session to…

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After you finish working/training the rest should be easy or is it? There is certainly an increased awareness of the role that recovery plays in training. After all it is…

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Many of you outside of track & field may not have heard of Kevin McGill. He is a great friend and confidant who is perhaps the world’s foremost authority on…

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We are getting involved in a discussion between coaches and parents of young athletes on the topic of over-specialization and the impact of club programs on athletics. I am a…

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Yesterday I wrote about pinball coaching, which really is not coaching. Real coaching is quite different. There is a well defined plan that everyone involved has participated in formulating. The…

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