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Rethinking Why Your Body Hurts
June 2, 2023
When relating this to injury, tearing down a factory is the same as athletes tearing their ACL. Getting surgery is rebuilding the same factory because the mind has not been addressed. An ACL tears within the first several milliseconds of landing on the ground, yet non-contact injuries don’t happen in one moment, just as alcoholism […]
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Training and Exercise for Children and Teenagers
June 2, 2023
It is important to start off on the right foot with correct knowledge of how the human body works and with correct training technique. Children and young adults who embark on a training regime normally drop out within the first three months of training. Most are disillusioned with training as the results don’t come quick enough or […]
How We Won our League and Region Championship
June 2, 2023
We focused much more on coaching the fundamentals, things like blocking techniques, leverage steps, finishing blocks and carrying out fakes. The 2018 season was the most memorable season of my coaching career. This was without a doubt my best season to date. We finished the regular season 5-2. However, we went undefeated in the playoffs! We […]
Defending Four Verticals in Youth Football
June 2, 2023
In order to effectively stop the four verticals concept, without sacrificing stopping the running game, the answer is to teach the alley players to play through the number two vertical on their way to the flat. As the spread offense continues to move across the country and create an impact at all levels defensive coordinators […]
Responsible Sports: Dealing With Disrespectful Players at Practice
June 2, 2023
The challenges of game-like activities and the problem-solving situations they present are not only fun, but they help players develop to a higher level of soccer.  Last month, a Responsible Sports Parent wrote to our panel of experts to ask: “I coach a soccer team made up of 13 and 14 year old girls. I have a couple […]
Patience the Key to Making Fundamental Changes
June 2, 2023
Patience may be a virtue, but it’s one that can be tough to come by. Especially in today’s world where everyone wants results now. I know I’ve talked about this many times before but one of the problems fastpitch softball players face in our “instant-everything” world is an expectation that they can fix major issues, or go […]
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Hockey Drills for a Power-Play Practice
June 2, 2023
A slight modification to this drill allows the defense to shoot it from the point with the other player going to the net for a screen, tip and rebound. A hockey practice that focuses on the power play is not to be confused with a practice where you play power play versus penalty kill for […]
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Weight Training for Sprint Swimmers
June 2, 2023
Choosing what exercises to do is hard for a swimmer. Not everything obviously translates from the weight room to the pool. As a sprinter you need to train the same way in the weight room as you would in the pool. A big misconception that sprinters have is that they have to lift heavy weights […]
Do You Know Who Your Best Blocker Is?
June 2, 2023
You now have a couple of statistical methods for rating your blockers. I suggest you try one or the other during a team scrimmage. For me, blocking is one of the most difficult skills to teach and assess. We all know about “penetration” and how important that is to successful blocking. However, I would contend […]
Ask the Expert: Age-Based Guide to Goal Setting
June 2, 2023
Goal Getting is based on what a young athlete can achieve through effort. Goal Setting is based on win/loss types of outcomes. While it makes intuitive sense that effective goals for fourth graders differ from those made by juniors in high school, it’s important for parents and coaches to understand how to help youth athletes […]
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