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• Thoughts from Bill Bowerman

  
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  Bill Bowerman is a legend in track & field coaching. He was the coach at University of Oregon for many years and one of the founders of Nike. He ideas and thoughts have had a huge influence on my coaching from the time I first heard him speak as a senior in college in 1968. Yesterday I was fortunate to have my ...
  11 hours ago

• Strength Training and The Growing Athlete - Part Three

  
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  The key concepts to consider as precursors to beginning a comprehensive strength training program are: Build a broad a base of activity and general fitness Build a firm foundation in movement skills Young growing athletes are not miniature adults therefore we must adjust everything to the size, weight and ...
  4 days ago

• Strength Training and The Growing Athlete - Part Two

  
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  The fact is that strength is a basic motor skill, which is an important precursor to other motor skills. To ignore strength development will only serve to limit the development of other key motor qualities such as speed, coordination and flexibility. Everything, regardless of the level of athlete, is related to a ...
  5 days ago

• Strength Training and The Growing Athlete – Part One

  
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  The common myths about strength training the growing athlete are: Before puberty the young athlete cannot put on muscle mass or make significant strength gains because of the lack of androgenic hormones It stunts growth because of stress on the growth plates It will limit flexibility and hinder skill ...
  6 days ago

• The Process

  
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  Training to improve performance in the athletic arena is a process. Here are the steps in the process as I see them: Define the process – Lay out your goals and objects. Be clear on the ultimate destination Trust the process – Get started, a journey of 10,000 miles starts with the first step. Proceed step ...
  1 week ago

• Youth Sports – Problems & Solutions

  
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  Problems Training at the beginning level focuses on winning rather than the process of learning how to train and appreciating the joy of participating and learning to test limits. Young developmental athletes over compete and under train. The ideal training to competition ration is 4 or 5 training sessions to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smart Body or Dumb Body?

  
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  You have a choice: Do you think your body is smart or do you think your body is dumb? Lets look at the two viewpoints of the body, the dumb body approach and the smart body approach. The dumb body approach looks at the body in segments with training and rehab consisting of putting the pieces together, essentially ...
  3 weeks ago

• Instant Experts & Snake Oil Salesmen

  
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  Now we have another phenomenon going that I find quite interesting and actually very alarming. I call it the “Teach for America Syndrome”. You get admitted to an elite program like Teach For America (Actually quite a good program) you serve your two years, you leave, you write a book about your experience, now you ...
  3 weeks ago

• Buyer Beware

  
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  There is a whole of genre of “you tube’ like channels on the net that feature workouts and exercises with absolutely no context. No experts to provide expertise. This may not matter to you, but it does matter to me. All this is just “stuff” without any frame of reference; no why, just a whole lot of what, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Training Advice from the Culinary Arts

  
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  You never know where or when you will get training advice and information. Yesterday I was listening to one of my favorite programs on NPR, The Splendid Table ( splendidtable.publicradio.org/) with Lynne Rosetto Kasper. The discussion was salt. They said that if the recipe called for salt and the proper amount was ...
  4 weeks ago

• Specialization

  
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  The other day someone asked what me specialty was in coaching? It is not often I am at a loss for words, but I had to stop and think for a minute. I have no specialty; I specialize is in being a generalist. As a track & field coach my specialty was combined events – decathlon & heptathlon, in many ways that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Learning - A Persepctive

  
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  It is a given that a coach should be as knowledgeable as possible. What are you doing to today to learn and to get better? As coaches we should be constantly learning. No doubt we should question the specialists and experts, read and research, observe other coaches and other sports – that is all fine and well but ...
  4 weeks ago

• 20/10 x 5

  
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  When looking at the training of endurance sports of biking, distance swimming and distance running strength training is often an afterthought. A sound strength program has tremendous potential to improve performance and to prevent injury. If you think about the demands of endurance sports the goals of strength ...
  4 weeks ago

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