Providing best practice in the athletic development and coaching of youth athletes
Recently I was interviewed for the “Growing Up Strong” Podcast, a podcast dedicated to the development of young athletes, hosted by Sam Joyce. You might remember Sam from our most recent “Ask the Expert” interview. In this episode. We discuss a range of topics including strength programmes, periods of accelerated growth and the effects working with athletes part-time.
You can listen to the interview here: http://growingupstrong.podbean.com/
The latest Ask the Expert interview comes from Nottingham Forest FC U18 Sport Scientist, and host of the “Growing Up Strong” podcast, Sam Joyce.
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I’m very pleased to announce that I will be delivering a workshop in Edinburgh on behalf of Edinburgh Community Sports Hubs on “Strength and Conditioning for Youth Athletes.” Please see the full details on the poster below!
John Wooden is a legend in the sport of Basketball. He was an All-American 3 times a s a player, he was the first person to inducted into the Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach and is largely regarded as one of the most successful sport coaches EVER.
John Wooden is a legend in the sport of Basketball. He was an All-American 3 times a s a player, he was the first person to inducted into the Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach and is largely regarded as one of the most successful sport coaches EVER. He won 10 NCAA championships in 12 years with UCLA. So, it’s fair to say he probably has a few good ideas on coaching…
Music was an integral part of my childhood. When I say integral, I mean when you could walk you got handed an instrument. At the age of 3 (yes you read that right) I was given a cornet (small trumpet) and inducted into whatever band was practicing at the time. This was totally normal in my family. The youngest of 5, we had a guitarist, singer, bass player/pianist, drummer and myself. Legend has it, before I could talk, I was humming a Charlie Parker solo in the back seat of the car to the amazement of an onlooker.
Continue reading “What Jazz taught me about coaching…”
I’d heard a lot about this month’s book. Relentless was a book surrounded with a fair bit of hype due to the career of the Author Tim Grover and his worker with numerous high profile NBA stars…
Child to Champion is a conference focussing on youth athletic development organized by James Baker at Proformance. Unfortunately, this year I was unable to attend, so I have asked Andy Bruce from ACB Coaching to give us a review of the key insights from the 2017 conference.
Continue reading “Child to Champion 2017 Review and 30% off 2016 videos!!”
