Found Time
As a teacher and coach I’m obsessed with time, it defines my professional life. This week on Thursday and Friday something unusual happened, we got inches of rain. Like it rained nonstop...
Strength and Conditioning
Vampires
I wanted to take this post and talk about something that’s really important for a coach and a teacher, time and energy vampires. For those of you not familiar with these, time...
Run Fast to be Fast
I put out a tweet about speed training a while ago, to the effect that using sprints as punishment or sprinting until one is sick is not a good way to develop...
Coaching Has to Adapt to the Athlete
I got an interesting email a few days ago about an athlete with Down Syndrome, competing at a pretty high level in sport, that wasn’t responding well to the coach’s approach. This...
An Energy System Primer, Part 2
Being able to break down ATP for fuel is important for exercise, but also for living. We touched on its importance and how we access it for short-term, high intensity activities in...