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 [...]
Several of our athletes were competing in their sports’ state championship this past weekend. Lacrosse was one of them while others were in track. I was lucky enough to have an athlete qualify for the state meet from the track team that I coach. This athlete also happened to be my daughter. That being said, [...]
One goal that a lot of young athletes have is to be able to play their sport in college. With the development of all these travel sports, one of the draws to these teams is that they will get you in front of college coaches who might want to recruit you. My bet is that [...]
If you can drive, have you ever sat at a red light and then accelerate as soon as you see that green light appear? I’m not saying you are playing the Fast & Furious with your car, just trying to get going as soon as you see that green. Your acceleration will begin based on [...]
Taking video to help enhance your sports has been done for years. When I was in high school, we would come in the day after a football game and watch video of the game. If you had screwed up big time in the game, you certainly were not looking forward to having the coach point [...]