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Teams Development
Hiring and Developing a COACHING / PERFORMANCE TEAM
Gone are the days of the “GURU” coaches.
Sure, the great names of coaching have all been “one man bands” – strong, decisive, authoritarian, leadership focused head coaches who controlled every aspect of the team’s performance.
However, elite sport has developed at an incredible rate over the past twenty years and the knowledge and skills required to win an elite sporting competition are greater than any one person can bring to the table.
Think of the advances in sports science, sports medicine, analysis, IT, nutrition, psychology and technology since the 1980s.
How can we expect that any one person can be THE expert in all performance areas plus coach the team, deal with the media, work with Club Board and Executive, recruit new players, talk to sponsors, meet the fans etc etc etc?
So – the Coaching Team and Performance Team concepts are born.
April 14, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Football, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field
Running better meetings in football: too long, too much, too similar.
There are five key elements in professional football these days:
1. Training
2. Playing
3. Recovery
4. Life Activities – e.g. work, study, family life, business.
5. Meetings!
Teams are spending more and more time meeting and discussing past games, future games and all the other games, training activities, travel and logistics issues involving the team. Read more
April 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: American Football, Coaching, Football, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer
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
April 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: AFL, American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Coaching, Cricket, Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Training
The Jersey is Dead: Long live the Players
By Wayne Goldsmith |
The Jersey. The Strip. The Colors. The Jacket. The Jumper.
Doesn’t matter what you call it – the “jersey” is dead.
Gone are the days when a bunch of blokes could train two or three days a week, have a poor diet, skip training sessions, enjoy a few beers and then, come Saturday, suddenly get Amazing Super Powers because of the magic of putting on the “jersey”.
In those days, poorly prepared players relied on the emotion of the jersey for their performance. Putting on the old “black and green” colors – usually incorporating a “rev-up” by a former player about the “pride of the jersey” etc was enough to fire the spirit and inspire the soul.
That’s not to say that tradition is wrong or respecting and celebrating the past is a bad thing. The point is that the jersey is just that – a jersey – a piece of clothing (usually made in China) – and, as a performance enhancement tool in 2008 – it is dead.
Why do I say the jersey is dead? Read more
April 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: AFL, American Football, Basketball, Coaching, Cricket, Football, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer
