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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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How to make an athlete efficient
ef·fi·cien·cy (
-fsh
n-s
)n. pl. ef·fi·cien·cies
1.
a. The quality or property of being efficient.
b. The degree to which this quality is exercised: The program was implemented with great efficiency and speed.
2.
a. The ratio of the effective or useful output to the total input in any system.
b. The ratio of the energy delivered by a machine to the energy supplied for its operation.
This is a word used by the physios I screen athletes with. If the athlete is moving efficiently, then they can utilise their energy systems to provide work for tactical moves at key times. If they are inefficient, energy is wasted on compensating movement patterns and maximal efforts will not be produced.
The key is to work the athlete as a whole, with the kinetic chain working together. The athlete is not a series of micro managed individual muscle actions – so the training should reflect this.
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