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World Cup Fever: Top 5 football fitness blog posts
World Cup Fever is upon us
Love it or hate it, there is no getting around it (although I am going to Houston for GAIN next week and that is probably a football desert!).
I thought this would be a good time to highlight the top 5 football related blog posts since the last World Cup:
Read MoreMartial Arts- enhance or inhibit natural movement?
I was recently asked about using Martial Arts training to help a sports academy with their movement patterns. This is ironic because a lot of M.A. training actually inhibits natural movement patterns.
In fact, these artificial movements become more and more exaggerated, and then become the object of the training, rather than an aid to being a better fighter.
Read MoreHow to get faster for football
How to get faster for football
With the football season finally over (for barely a few weeks!), we take a look at how you can use the off season to give you or your team the best preparation for the season to come.
Football is an increasingly high intensity and high tempo game, often decided by the smallest of margins. Having the fastest players then gives your team the best chance of success.
Read MoreGet the dumbbells moving
“Move the dumbbells as far away from your body as possible”
when doing reverse flyes. Or “lower and retract shoulder blades whilst body is at a 30 degree angle and work in the transverse and horizontal planes with maximal extension“.
Which is better for motor learning?
Read MoreThe Challenge to coaches and coaching: Kevin Bowring
“The modern player adopts a ‘pick and mix’ loyalty rather than a long-term allegiance.”
He is becoming increasingly preoccupied with self and is more independent and less submissive to authority. He finds difficulty in accepting criticism and is more liable to conflict.
Read MoreMen In Tights! Lessons to be learnt from training for the performing arts.
Nick A
llen is the clinical director of the Jerwood Centre, and looks after the dancers of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. His lecture was well structured, informative and entertaining. He gave an overview of the different aspects of dance training, the problems he encounters and some of the solutions.
The lard works in mysterious ways- Anton Parker
Fat as an active system
So, our body fat deposits evolved as an energy store for tucking away excess calories for later use and helped our mammalian ancestors survive seasonal food shortages.
Read More11 questions every aspiring athlete should ask themselves
“If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.
You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something.
Ockham’s Razor- A Coaching principle?
William of Ockham lectured at Oxford in the 14th Century. He is most famous for his theory that when you have two competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is the better.
I use this principle in Coaching; if there are two ways of getting the job done, the simpler is the better. There are two reasons for this:
Read MoreThe Talent ID Bun Fight
“I feel pressurised as a parent to choose between sports for my daughters”.
Said a concerned Mum at a recent workshop.
She is far from alone. Well meaning, but concerned, parents are being asked to ferry their children from “selection camp” to “regional centre” to “talent pathway nuclei” (O.K. I made that last one up).
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