Halfway through our track season, I am more convinced than ever that whatever success you will have in your season is almost always related to what type of work you are doing in the off-season. Yes, you have to have practice and learn plays, etc. But, however well you personally are performing in my opinion [...]
Having watched track athletes all these years, I see this all the time. It never fails to occur the first time in the season you have warm weather and a nice sunny day. At least it never fails in Columbus, Ohio where I reside. Maybe if we lived in Florida year round I wouldn’t see [...]
One of the biggest issues I am dealing with right now is shin splints. I coach track and runners usually are the athletes dealing with shin splints, but it can happen in various sports. Knowing how to care for your shin splints can be the difference to whether they go away or linger and become [...]
As a track coach, I am in a constant battle with my players about proper warmup. Specifically, what the heck they are wearing when it is 50 degrees prior to their workout. If it is called a warmup, why is the athlete making it that much harder for him/herself by warming up in a shirt [...]
We had a track meet this weekend. It wasn’t a huge meet, but I was trying to make sure a few of my athletes had opportunities to decrease their times. One of my sprinters was in a position to improve her time for a couple of events and really solidify her position to qualify for [...]
This past Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers were taking on the Kansas City Chiefs. San Francisco is led by $137 million dollar man, Jimmy Garoppolo. The one who TMZ loves following because he dates super models and porn stars apparently. On a scramble out of the pocket, Garoppolo was running for the first down when [...]
When we assess an individual to find out how we can improve speed, we have to look at everything. Running mechanics are huge and faulty running mechanics are usually due to some type of strength and/or flexibility imbalance that needs corrected. Speed coaches sometimes refer to your ankles and feet as an athlete’s wheels. Just [...]
I was recently pondering over a lot of our workouts we’ve written these past months and something donned on me that was familiar over a good amount of them. We seemed to be doing drills that focused a lot on glute activation no matter what the issue was for the athlete. Whether we were working [...]
I had my first experience with an athlete who had Vocal Cord Dysfunction (VCD) about 6 – 7 years ago. I had never heard of it, but this particular athlete would start exercising or playing her sport and then would have issues breathing. It is commonly misdiagnosed as exercise induced asthma as in this particular [...]
Every year it seems I write a blog post inspired by the heat. I probably say some very similar things each time I write a post. But, there are new groups of people that are subscribers to what we preach and I’m sure they have not scoured every nook and cranny of our blog to [...]