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Teaching and coaching: thoughts from Lombardi
Show, Do, Teach
I mentioned this yesterday on the SW Fencing hub when asked by a coach how I structure my sessions.
When coaching groups I try to structure the session like this:
Read MoreThe best weightlifting book: a review
What are the best books to read about Olympic Weightlifting? It depends on whether you are a lifter or a coach, and whether you are new or experienced. It might be that you are just interested to learn about the sport. You might be looking for technical information, or for a programme to follow. Here…
Read MorePlanned Performance Training: Bill Knowles
Envelope of healing
The upper limit of the envelope is for the elite athlete, but too much work leads to inflammation. Too little work is safer, but it is not causing enough adaptability.
There are no time frames for the rehab procedures, instead criteria based progressions are needed
Goal setting for sport: 4 secrets to success
Lots of the athletes I work with have done a goal setting for sport exercise with their various coaches in the summer. This can quickly become consigned to the dustbin of history once the first three matches of the season have been played.
Read MoreImproper Application and Interpretation of Sports Science Statistics
The latest craze in competitive sport appears to be the use of data to aid understanding of, and improvement in sporting performance. This has resulted in a glut of material, each item claiming to have established some new result which may have useful implications in the development and performance of human athletes.
Read MoreGetting fit for Archery
“Whatever’s wrong ain’t the bow and whatever’s right is the archer.”
For the last 18 months I have been working alongside the Gloucestershire Archery Society and a number of local clubs as part of the.
The role of the coach: Insights from Boxing Champions
Do you tell athletes what to think or how to think? The excellent “In This Corner” by Peter Heller is a collection of World Champion boxers across 7 decades. There is a lot of experience contained in those recollections and it is interesting to hear from people who have been there and done it. Tommy…
Read MorePioneering Sports Club
Pioneering Sports Club Excelsior ADC is now affiliated to British Athletics, British Weightlifting and British Gymnastics; the only sports club in the UK to do so. Access to coaching for children in the Culm Valley is limited, every Gymnastics club in Devon is oversubscribed, the nearest Weightlifting clubs are in Plymouth and Bristol, and good…
Read MoreThe Agony and the Ecstasy: Excelsior athletes in Europe.
Highlights of a Summer of Sport We have had lots of our athletes and ex athletes competing with a European flavour this summer, so here is a brief round up. Ex Excelsior athlete Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe won the European Modern Pentathlon Championships in Bath. Jenny McGeever also competed here in the team relay. Part of…
Read MoreAre girls more flexible than boys?
Are girls naturally more flexible, or is it training?
We often get asked this question when training our athletes. At Excelsior mobility is one of the four pillars that form your structural integrity (posture, balance, stability being the others).