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Your chance to run faster
25th March 2025
The father of a 9-year-old boy asked me if I could coach his son 1-1 with his running technique. I said, ‘No.’ Boys that age should be playing outside with their friends, not stuck in an awkward situation with an experienced coach and an expectant father watching on. Unfortunately, the boy attends a private school […]
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““When you start to coach, you coach the system you played, but you begin almost to immediately discard what doesn’’t fit you or your material, and you look for what does…. All of us are takers, but if a person can’t add something to what he takes from others, he should get out.””

Vince Lombardi in “Run to Daylight“.

I have had a conversation very similar to this to two different people in the last two days. One was with a physio talking about S&C coaches going on courses and then applying the new information indiscriminately to all and sundry.

The other was to a young person who wants to be an S&C coach and I said to go to lots of different sources at the beginning of her career, but then to establish her own ideas and philosophy as she gets more experience.

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