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December, 2011
Can You Guarantee Winning in High Performance Sport?
Yes you can!
December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Making Sense of Testing Athletes
A renowned swimming coach was walking up and down the side of the pool working with a world record holder. A younger, relatively inexperienced coach who was eager to learn, asked, “How do you know how your swimmer is going?” “How do you know when she is ready to do her best?”
The senior coach replied, “I just know”.
Testing does not replace the skilled eye or instinctual feel of an experienced and talented coach. It aims to provide measurement and objectivity to some of the elements of performance that coaches “see” and “feel” and “know”.
This article discusses some of the current issues in the testing of high performance athletes and looks at the crucial aspects of the measurement and evaluation of elite sports performance. Read more
December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Tags: Coaching, Performance Science, Sports coaching, sports science, Training
Top Ten Talent I.D. Tips for High Performance Sport – The T.O.P. Approach
So much of the world’s high performance sports dollars (or Yens or Yuans or Euros or Pounds or Pesos or Rands depending on where you come from), time, energy, focus and attention is spent on three things:
- Talent identification;
- Talent recruitment;
- Talent development.
Or if you like, find them, sign them, refine them.
And most of the world has still got it wrong. There is a better way. Read more
December 6, 2011 | 10 Comments
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It’s not the workout that wins…you have to win the workout.
One of the greatest myths in sport is that it is the workout that wins.
That is, that the secret to sporting success lies in how you manipulate volume, intensity and frequency.
Coaches spend years and years crafting their workouts, building invincible programs and creating the perfect combination of work and rest that will deliver them and their athletes the success they dream of.
And it is largely a myth.
It is not the workout that wins…you have to win the workout. Read more
December 6, 2011 | 2 Comments
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