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January, 2012
Exploding the Home and Away Myth
All professional team sport competitions around the world are based on the “Home and “Away” philosophy, i.e. that it is more likely a team will win at “Home” that it is when they are “Away” (from home).
The central theme of the philosophy is that by giving teams the chance to play each other at “Home” and “Away” they have an equal chance of winning over the season without favouring one team over the other.
There was a time that everyone involved in professional sport more or less accepted the “fact” that is was more difficult to win “Away” than it was to win at “Home”.
But now is the time to challenge the whole “Home and Away” concept and expose it for the myth that it really is. Read more
January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Tags: AFL, American Football, Away, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Home, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union
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
January 5, 2012 | 6 Comments
Tags: Coaching, Generation I, generation y
The Rebuilding Phase..the biggest cop out in sport.
What’s this Rebuilding Phase people in professional sport are talking about?
Are they reconstructing their offices?
Are they redeveloping their grandstands?
Or is it the biggest cop out of all time- justifying poor performances by spruiking, “We’re in a rebuilding phase” to anyone who will listen?
January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments
Tags: draft system, Professional football, Professional Sport, recruitment, salary cap, team rebuilding
The Passion to Prepare = or > The Potential to Perform
What are we all chasing in high performance sport?
What is high performance coaching seeking to achieve?
Why do we focus so much on player leadership?
Why do we spend so much time talking about professionalism, standards, attitudes, commitment and passion?
Because we want to achieve one thing: we want to create an environment where our athletes’ Passion to Prepare is equal to or greater than their Potential to Perform. Read more
January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments
Tags: Athletic Potential, Coaching, High Performance, Sporting Potential
Sports Coaching in 2030 – Future (coach) Shock – Where will Sports Coaching be in 2030?
What will sports coaching look like in 20 years?
How will a training session differ in 2030 to a training session in 2010?
How will our coaching have changed, improved and evolved over the next 20 years?
It will have changed so much that it will be barely recognisable.
The future is already here. And it is a scary place for those living in the past.
Are you ready for it? Will you race towards it? Will you resist it?
Read on. Read more
January 5, 2012 | 14 Comments
Tags: Coach education, Coaching, High Performance, Sports coaching, The Future of Coaching
Recovering from Recovery: Recovery in Perspective.
The sporting world has gone Recovery Crazy.
Over the past ten years, Recovery has gone from being something you did when you got tired, to an integral aspect of every training session, every day, all year round.
First it was massage.
Then came all the countless variations of hydrotherapies: spas, saunas, ice baths, contrast showers, high-flow shower massage, wading pools, hydro pools…….
Then the recovery nutrition stuff: creatine, sports drinks, gels, bars, Slushies….
Now the focus is on sleep: sleep research, quality of sleep, quantity of sleep, timing of sleep, power naps, managing sleep, monitoring sleep and even the genetics of sleep.
It is now at the point where many coaches and athletes are making Recovery a higher priority than actual hard training! (The only time this should happen is in the dictionary).
So it’s time to Recover from Recovery: let’s consider Recovery in Perspective. Read more
January 5, 2012 | 4 Comments
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