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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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Garbage Yardage

This is a phrase given to me by a swimming coach – Alan reed- I work with. It refers to work being done with little or no end result except work. There is no purpose to the session, any results or transference to an improved results are purely by chance, rather than design.

This term isn’t used much outside of swimming, but it certainly could be. Someone said to me last week that S&C coaches and medical staff have to jump through hoops to justify and account for the work they are doing, but coaches can just turn up within team sports and put a series of totally irrelevant sessions together.

Coaches are pretty good at doing team runs, tactics and unopposed drills, but are they putting a sequence of sessions together that have an end result in 6 months , a year or heaven forbid, 3 years time?

Or is it more garbage yardage?

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