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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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Principles of Athletic Development : GAIN review 1
“Are you making athletes better or tired or more predisposed to injury?”
This was one of the key questions we were asked on the GAIN 2011 conference in Houston, Texas in June.
It is easy to make Athletes tired, it is easy to do STUFF, but making them better and knowing why you are doing things is difficult.
This is the 1st of 5 blogs that will review some of the things covered over the 5 day conference. It is a summation of my reflections and thoughts since then: hence the delay.
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