How to practice: should we teach this first?

“Rather than teach what to practice, I should start with how to practice”

golf warm upThis was the lesson I learnt from working with golf coach John Jacobs on a recent training day.

John had set up a simple pitching task for the 10 golfers: they had to try and pitch 10 balls into some different spaces he had marked out with cones.

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New Year’s Resolutions- Healthy Eating

healthy eating at christmas for an athleteI always like to get a step ahead of my competitors by ensuring that I start training before they do.

December is an ideal opportunity to do this as most people are switching off and over indulging.

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March Training Plan- How to run a sub 40 minute 10k

March training plan

Now the sun is out and the evenings are longer, March and April are time for me to work on my endurance, dust off the tennis racket and lose some body fat.

Strength, power and speed have been developed over the last 3 months (came in useful when the handbrake on my car failed and I saw my son rolling backwards down a hill in the car. Had to sprint and jump in. Stuntman is still a career option I think).

I am aiming to do a sub 40min 10k in 6 weeks, and to lose 2kg of bodyfat.

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