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August, 2010
Training Based Research Studies: the Biggest Con in sport since the Muffin.
Remember how when we were kids everyone liked to eat cupcakes.
Then when we got older and a bit more health conscious we were told to give them up because of the sugar and flour and other stuff in them.
Then along comes a sports nutritionist who said “Muffins are a great food for athletes – nutritious, high carbohydrate energy foods”. So we all started eating them again even though they are basically still just big cupcakes.
What a big con.
Almost as big a con as Training Studies in Sports Science Research. Read more
August 19, 2010 | 6 Comments
Tags: Coach education, Coaching, exercise, High Performance, Performance Science, research, sport, sports science, Training
Winning Against the Odds
Question:
How may times do you actually go out on the field with all of your best players 100% fit and healthy and in the best form of their lives?
Answer:
a. Sometimes
b. Often
c. All the time
d. Never.
If you answered d. Never – give yourself a round of applause. Read more
August 5, 2010 | Comments Off
Tags: AFL, American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Coaching, Cricket, Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Training
Coaching in the Century of Entertainment
“Enter-Training”: “Entertained, not just trained”
Coaching in this century is more about entertainment and enjoyment than just education and athletic excellence.
Coaches, teachers and instructors around the World are experiencing frustrating times coming to terms with the rapid changes in society and the impact these changes are having on the learning behaviors of kids. Read more
August 5, 2010 | 6 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training
The future – who will get there first?
By Wayne Goldsmith
In business and in elite sport there are three basic types of people.
Those who are innovative, creative, rule breakers, risk takers – leaders: people who have a vision of what’s possible and make the future theirs.
Those who watch the leaders and innovators and copy them.
Those who don’t care about the future – they just keep repeating what they do now over and over and over and over and over…
Which one are you?
August 5, 2010 | Comments Off
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon
