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 [...]
Watched another ball drop and low and behold another year has begun. The time certainly does fly by. Seems like it was yesterday I was struggling to stay awake and see that ball drop. Oh wait, that was just yesterday. Moving on. As we look forward to this year, there are some trends I have [...]
The older you get, the more opportunities you have to regret certain choices that you might have made. Do you think Pete Carroll regrets going for the pass in the Super Bowl when you had Beastmode in the backfield? I hope he does. Something about him irritates me. I’m sure there are choices that you [...]
A couple years ago, my youngest and I were having a discussion about club soccer. She was trying to convince me to play and then came with the phrase, “I’m not going to get any better if I don’t play club.” I had to stop and think about what she said. The statement wasn’t entirely [...]
I have officially become that “old school” guy. The “back in my day” individual watching these new age athletes. I don’t feel bad because so has Lebron James and he is way younger than me. Athletes have a big advantage nowadays with all the knowledge that is out there on how to train and what [...]
I try to make it out to as many games possible that my athletes play in. That being said, I can usually tell the type of effort my athlete will give during a game based on what I see during the warmups. Part of my mission with athletes is to teach them what it means [...]