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 [...]
The baseball hall of fame announcements were made last week and Derek Jeter, not surprisingly, made it his first time on the ballot. When hearing anecdotes about Jeter, one of the recurring themes was how confident he was in his ability to get the job done. He felt he was going to have success each [...]
This may be a whacky idea, but I’ve been thinking about this idea for club sports for a while. Maybe it is more specifically for club track or individualized sports, but what about a virtual coach or club for your travel sports? Let’s take my sport, track, for example because I’m not quite sure this [...]
When we have athletes start training with us, one of the more popular long term goals that is mentioned is they want to play in college. If that is the case, then you certainly need to be aware of what college coaches are actually looking for in recruits. I’ve been around for a long time, [...]
Back in the day, the biggest thing that stressed us out was whether that sabretooth tiger was going to sneak up on you or not. Whether you’d be able to find food or whether someone was going to steal your food. We don’t necessarily have those worries, but stress is all over us like flies [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]