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 [...]
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 [...]
In my field, you will hear about athletes doing sand training as way to improve speed and conditioning. I don’t live around much sand, so I don’t get to experiment with this a whole lot. Until this past week. My family was down in Florida for spring break. With my daughters smack dab in the [...]
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 [...]
2019 has arrived and it might be time to put together a training calendar for your athlete. Even though it might not be a perfect 12 months depending on what sport your athlete plays and where you are in the season, this can give you an idea of what you need to do to get [...]
I was out with a couple of buddies recently and they enlightened me on an Oura Ring, which apparently Prince Harry has made famous. And from what they were telling me about this ring, it could be a gamechanger on how we train our athletes. In a nutshell, this Oura Ring is supposed to be [...]
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 [...]
When I was a strength coach at Columbus Academy back in the day, before they got this nice cushy weight room, we had our weight room in a place we called the barn. Garage door opening, no A/C, everything tucked in nice and neat. Yes, very “old school”. Even though, I am well-versed in SAQ [...]
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 [...]
I was in the process of prepping another blog post for you guys when I ran into one of my former athletes, Aziza Ayoub, at the Central District cross country meet. Aziza is now a sophomore at The Ohio State University running track. Before that, she ran at Jonathan Alder and part of the reason [...]