I am as guilty as any private coach when selling my services. You have a prospective new client in front of you and you start discussing all the fabulous people you have had the pleasure to work with. You start discussing this athlete that won a state title and that athlete that is participating at [...]
I don’t know how many people read my blog posts. I’m guessing it is in the tens of people. I’ve always focused the blog on sports – training for sports, sports athletes, interviews of my clients, what is working for these athletes to make them better. I like to focus on sports because you know [...]
This pandemic has affected so many facets of our society. I know and get that, but I’m going to talk about the cancellation of sports and the young athletes that it affects. I am a speed and strength coach, so you don’t want me analyzing the economy correct? School sports are suspended or cancelled. Club [...]
I was talking with an athlete recently asking why he was giving up the sport he grew up with and played every year since he could pick up a bat and baseball. He was on the varsity baseball team the previous year and he was giving it up to switch sports. His answer boiled down [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
If you have kids who play sports then you probably have witnessed this a lot. Parents lining along the sideline trying to coach their kids in the disguise of cheering for the team. I’m a parent so I kind of get it. You want your kid to be the one to score the goal or [...]
The New England Patriots have won yet another Super Bowl. Julian Edelman was named the Super Bowl MVP. Edelman had an interesting year, as he was coming off a torn ACL from last year and a 4 game suspension at the beginning of the season. Here’s the interesting story about Edelman. He was a college [...]
When I was in 8th grade (so understand this was ages ago), I went to watch my brother play in a 4th grade basketball game. This was one of the few games I was able to watch because a lot of times my own basketball schedule conflicted with watching him play. This particular game they [...]