When I first got into running and track way back when, there was an adage that if you are sprinting to run on the balls of your feet and if you are running more for distance run flatter and on your heels. That adage can be thrown out the window now. If you look at [...]
You can’t really train to get faster. You either are fast or you’re not. Rather than put in the effort to optimize your body’s ability to get as fast as it can, spend some time doing important things like another selfie pic. Now that we’ve laid that groundwork, let’s analyze the best reasons why you [...]
I continue to preach having kids to be multi-sport athletes, but ultimately I believe most kids will end up picking just one sport to play. At what age that happens will vary. Also, multi-sports nowadays means playing two different travel sports in the same season. Not quite what I was hoping for. Anyways, what happens [...]
Back in the day, the biggest thing that stressed us out was whether that sabretooth tiger was going to sneak up on you or not. Whether you’d be able to find food or whether someone was going to steal your food. We don’t necessarily have those worries, but stress is all over us like flies [...]
If you are married, there wasn’t really a book that you read on how to have a great marriage. I’m sure there are actually plenty of books on that subject, but most people don’t read them. Thus, you find out a lot about what married life is like by experiencing it. With that in mind, [...]
Part 3 of our series of how we got a track athlete (Anna Kessler) faster so she was able to have the necessary speed to make the state 100M finals. The previous two weeks, I discussed the previous season’s times and what the object was for the offseason to get her in a better position [...]
How to get a track athlete to run faster? That is the question that we will be discussing in part 2 of our post about Anna Kessler and how she dropped her times enough to qualify for the state track meet this past spring. Last week, I discussed her PR’s she had her freshman year [...]
Back in the fall, I wrote a blog post about one of our athletes, Aziza Ayoub, and the program we did with her to help her win the Ohio state track championship in the 800M (twice). You can read about Aziza’s program by clicking here. We were fortunate enough this year to have three athletes [...]
Club sports and year-round training has been a hot topic for a lot of parents of athletes I train. At some point in our conversation, I seem to be saying similar points about less practice and more pickup sports. Everything in an athlete’s training is structured and regimented. If you screw up, you have a [...]
I’ve written about this before, but summer is not the ideal time to think your athlete is going to make huge performance gains. It CAN be, but only if you will not be going on any family vacations, attending any camps that take you away from a gym, and not playing a fall sport. If [...]