Building a Basketball Speed Philosophy It’s funny to think about is how hard coaches work on their X’s and O’s but completely miss how they want their players’ footwork to be performed. Not all coaches fall into this category, but a lot do. Many basketball coaches will use “motivation” to get their players to move …
What a coach says can be Powerful! If we were to take a deep look into how we teach a skill, there is usually some introduction of the new skill. The introduction is often followed by giving the athletes some basic context for how the skill is used in the sport. Next, we use demonstrations …
Boy, oh boy, it’s not easy being a parent. There are personal decisions we have to make for ourselves that are difficult enough- now, having to decide for the health and safety of our children takes it to a whole new level. The problem is when the decisions we have to make for our kids …
Don’t Empty The Tank of Your Athletes! It’s almost like a badge of honor. You know -when a coach gets a high off physically destroying their athletes with punishing amounts of conditioning! The problem with this approach is the athletes rarely recover from that kind of workout and don’t have enough left in the tank …
How often do we see athletes performing running arm drills in positions inconsistent with arm action during acceleration or max velocity? Actually, quite a bit. The problem is, we have been taught wrong from the get-go. How many times have you heard “arms should always be at 90 degrees”? I am here to tell you …
This is a topic that has been hot for years… Why should kids play at the park, or with friends, in an unorganized play structure versus having all their sports and activities organized by a coach? Have you ever watched a 30 for 30 on ESPN or a documentary about star athletes? Without fail, it …
A Guide On How To Use Skipping Coaches need to stop and think before they speak! People often say things because we’ve heard them told before. We regurgitate words as we’ve listened to them—an all too common strategy in coaching. How many times have you heard your coach say, “Well, that’s the way my coach …
How many times have you heard, read, or said “No Pain, No Gain”? Maybe a gazillion? There’s a lot of good and bad with this simple statement. We don’t want aimless pain and discomfort without purpose and without a plan of working through it. But we want to be challenged physically, mentally, and competitively to …
Any mechanics will tell you, having more options in your toolbox allow for more solutions to fixing problems on the job. The same goes for strength and conditioning coaches. If you have a very limited toolbox, you will limit yourself on how many problems you can solve. This doesn’t mean you can’t be successful with …
Your Job is To Improve This Quality The great news about the overabundance of social media and YouTube videos is a never-ending supply of videos to use in your training. The bad news about the overabundance of social media and YouTube videos is a never-ending supply of videos to use in your training … Your …
