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 [...]
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 [...]