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Thinking Outside the Box in Coaching in High Performance Sport – Creativity is King!
There is a tribe in the highlands of Papua New Guinea who have never seen modern technology, who could not even imagine using the latest electronic tools, who can not comprehend western society concepts of computing, social media, high speed Internet links, laser technology or satellite navigation.
This tribe, believes that the best way – the only way - the way everyone must adopt to cut down a tree is to make an axe by lashing a sharp rock to a piece of wood. This knowledge has been passed down from generation to generation for centuries….this tribe knows for certain that the only way to cut down a tree is to use a hand made stone ax.
And then, one day, through the forest, comes a man from the USA carrying a chain saw……. Read more
May 4, 2010 | 6 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Diving, exercise, fitness, Football, Gymnastics, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, sport, Sports Management, sports science, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon
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
February 8, 2010 | 4 Comments
Tags: Coach education, Coaching, exercise, High Performance, Performance Science, research, sport, sports science, Training, UCNISS
Can you achieve the same or better performance results with reduced training volume? More with Less Part Two.
All coaches have five things in common:
- A love of the sport they coach;
- The passion and drive to be the best they can be;
- An unquenchable thirst for knowledge and learning;
- A desire to see every athlete they coach realise their full potential;
- An unbreakable devotion to their philosophy on training volume.
Why this obsession with volume of training? Why do coaches resist any attempt from sports scientists and others to reduce their training volume? Why do coaches resent any implication that they are training their athletes too hard?
Because, in spite of all the research and all the literature and all the advances in sports science, sports medicine and performance technologies, the ONLY thing that is proven – beyond doubt – to improve performance is consistent hard training. Read more
January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
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