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The #1 Recovery Supplement
As you can see from the picture, if it was sold in a can, marketed and advertised in all the health and sport magazines, this would be much more talked about.
Developing young athletes: Jonah Barrington
“Kids are brittle and fickle”
Jonah Barrington, squash legend. I worked with Jonah for 5 years when I was Head of Athletic Development at Millfield school.
He was always a great sounding board on things to do with coaching, squash and life.
He gave a heartfelt presentation to all of the coaches at the school, and I have just uncovered the notes I took. Here are some of his insights:
Read MoreAn Accurate Observation Is Never Wrong or What a Coach Needs to Know: Thomas Kurz
Human physiology (including its expression in human psychology) doesn’t change from decade to decade, not from century to century, hardly from millennium to millennium, so accurate observations of human nature hold true no matter their age.
Read MoreYoung sports people in Oxford get expert support
Excelsior Athletic Development Centre comes to Oxfordshire.
Easter saw the first Athlete Support Day of 2014 for Oxfordshire athletes, with 5 different sports represented.
Preparing to win: athlete support day review
“If you’re getting into the ring with Mike Tyson, your warm up better be good”.
Was the message of my first section of the most recent athlete support day in Exeter. We had 21 players from 8 different sports take part.
The lack of preparation immediately before a match from young sports people constantly needs addressing.
Read MoreSkeletal Muscle Hypertrophy: an overview. Mike Stone
Mike Stone’s lecture about endocrin influences on hypertrophy training.
A review of a lecture I attended at the UKSCA conference a few years ago. T
he lecture was quite technical at a cellular level and offered an overview of different factors affecting the body’s ability to adapt to hypertrophy training.
Read MoreStrength and conditioning coaching
“Lost in Transition”
was the motto of the recent Level 2 strength and conditioning course I ran at Oxford Brookes University (The coaches were kept busy going from venue to venue and task to task, we lost a few on the way sometimes!).
How to practice: should we teach this first?
“Rather than teach what to practice, I should start with how to practice”
This was the lesson I learnt from working with golf coach John Jacobs on a recent training day.
John had set up a simple pitching task for the 10 golfers: they had to try and pitch 10 balls into some different spaces he had marked out with cones.
Read MoreBeware the Volume Trap
How to improve performance
If you are a beginner exerciser then one of the best ways to improve performance is to increase volume.
If you are training for 20 minutes every day a week, or for 45 minutes twice a week, then increasing to 45 minutes 6 times a week will lead to performance improvements.
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