Being from Columbus, Ohio, I like to follow local athletes as they leave our city and monitor their athletic progress. One of those athletes is former Dublin Coffman track star, Abby Steiner, who is now a junior track athlete at the University of Kentucky. This past weekend, she won the NCAA Indoor Championships 200M title. [...]
As I talk with other coaches and friends I know across the country, I have to say that Ohioans have been lucky to be playing the sports that they have been playing. Our fall sports happened. Our winter sports are winding down the regular season and looking at the tournament. And I’m keeping my fingers [...]
I’ve been an attendee of an online seminar, for the better part of this month. It is focused on speed development for track and football players. One of the discussions has been on how much time should be devoted to speed development? With this particular crew of coaches, they think that top speed development should [...]
My daughter plays in this 3-3 basketball league. Nothing too complex. 12 minute games. Running clocks and kids call their own fouls. They do their own substitutions. Basically, pick up ball. There is supposed to be no parent involvement for most of the kids in this league. I think the younger kids are allowed to [...]
A few years back, I prepared an open letter to coaches describing why a service such as mine would be useful to his/her athletes. If you want to take a glance at it, you can CLICK HERE. I have created another letter for athletes who have to do a lot of off-season conditioning that isn’t [...]
As a speed and strength coach, I’m privy to a lot of research that is out there to help your kids get better at their sport. This is obviously beneficial to you since I am able to keep up with the latest cutting edge information while developing your athlete. I’m also a parent of two [...]
Here are two fun facts you might not have known about September. It is the month of my birthday and it is the month for National Childhood Obesity Awareness. My birthday, you probably don’t care about, but the other…well. Obesity rates in general are sky high in our country. It is only natural to assume [...]
For people in my industry, this is becoming more and more of an issue. You get an inquiry about your speed/strength services or you are coaching a current athlete and they tell you they are doing training with their team now. Their team started doing speed or strength workouts and they need to do the [...]
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 [...]