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Category Archives: Youth Training
A Review of the Elite Athletic Development Seminar 3.0
There are very few people and few products I’m happy to affiliate for. Joe Kenn and Mike Robertson’s Elite Athletic Development 3.0 Seminar hits the mark on both counts! Hopefully, this article will help you work out whether or not … Continue reading
Coaching, Conferences, Exercises, Performance, Prehab & Rehab, Psychology, Youth Training
Abs, Big House Power, Block Zero Training, Breathing, Core Training, Elite Athletic Development Seminar, Joe Kenn, Mike Robertson, Periodisation, Periodization, Planning, PRI, R7 Approach, The Tier System, Training, Youth Training
Do You Know What The FMS Actually Is?
The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) has, for some god-known reason, become a contentious topic in strength and conditioning. This week, social media has been full of comments in a relation to a master’s thesis published in 2014 that reported higher … Continue reading
The Warm-Up – My ‘Systems Approach’
Inspired by Dan John’s ‘A Systems Approach to Coaching’ seminar – which is fantastic by the way – I thought it time to reflect on some of my own systems and approaches to training and coaching. Where better to start … Continue reading
When You Say Nothing At All…
Ronan Keating had a bloody good point, sometimes we need to learn to shut up and let everything else do the talking. Maybe doing just that could make your coaching a lot more effective. Rule 1 – Do my words … Continue reading
When Not To Coach (Part Two)
There are some things you have to learn on the job when it comes to coaching, knowing when to correct and when to step back is definitely one of them. In the first part of this double header I introduced … Continue reading
When Not To Coach (Part One)
Athletes aren’t robots. As it’s highly unlikely that an athlete will be able to perform every movement to the exact coaching model we have in our minds, it’s therefore inevitable that we’ll see flaws and inefficiencies in technique on a … Continue reading
Partner Training (…and My Top 5 Partner Exercises)
I’ve had this article on the ideas pile for a while now but when I saw George North pick up Isreal Falou like a gold, Quantas sponsored sandbag I knew it was time to bring this piece to fruition. Enter … Continue reading
Break Them Down To Build Them Up?
The perceived importance of ‘movement quality’ has exploded over the last few years, but how do we judge movement quality? Do we really know what we’re looking at? Movement screening The increasing emphasis on movement quality has led to an … Continue reading
A Primer On Plyo’s
‘Plyometric’ is probably the most abused training term in existence. Colloquially it seems to be employed to encompass any power exercise, regardless of how it’s performed. This article will recap what Plyo’s actually are and how they work. What is … Continue reading
10 Mistakes I’ve Made As An S&C Coach (Part Two)
Missed the first part of my 10 mistakes series? You’d better catch up here then! Today we’re moving through 5 more of the mistakes I’ve made so far during my S&C career. Assume the coach knows how important we are … Continue reading