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7th November 2024
Essays to help sports coaches and P.E. teachers. My latest book, ‘Coaches’ Corner,’ is now available to buy on Amazon. It contains over 50 essays about athletic development, coaching, and physical education based on my work over the last ten years as Head Coach of Excelsior Athletic Development Club. How and what I’ve coached has […]
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How to warm up for Athletics
I was watching 4 of the athletes I train warm up before their track session last week and was amazed by the random and unstructured methodology they undertook.
Track and field athletes are a special breed and don’t mind a chat at every opportunity between exercises, so I do bear this in mind.
I asked one of them why he did what he did “I just copy what I have seen famous people do and mix them together.”
Here are some tips:
- Have a plan. Write it down if necessary. Make it simple.
- Make it personal to you- don’t copy what anyone else is doing.
- Move generally before you get ready for your specific event.
- Use large muscle groups first, get warm and sweaty.
- Introduce technical drills for form.
- Build up speed and intensity.
- Integrate speed work with mobility, so that you don’t get fatigued.
- Practice in training and experiment with what works for you.
- Keep it short- that way if you are called up sooner than expected you won’t panic.
Routine is key, it will be a comfort before you compete.
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Sean Clifford- Point Guard
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I feel that training with South West Talent and James Marshall has been the best thing I've done for my basketball career so far. It has greatly improved my overall athleticism which has been a real benefit to me when on court. More importantly, however, the training has enabled me to continue playing whilst suffering from a back injury which has caused me real problems over a number of years. It has made huge improvements more recently and I am confident that I will be in good shape to play this coming season.
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