Why monitor

The end goal of any training plan is to make sure players are ready to perform at the peak of their abilities on race day. A big part of this is trying to make sure athletes are being worked at the appropriate level without risking injury through overtraining. Monitoring the load athletes experience during training …

Record Everything

"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so...……….and record EVERYTHING" Galileo Galilei Ok so I added that last bit but I'm sure Galileo would approve. Having been recording the basics for quite a while, last season I made a concerted effort to measure more and track more. The result was a much …

Mindfulness & the Christian Coach

You simply cannot live in todays world and not have heard of mindfulness. It has become a bit of a buzzword these days. an article in the Sunday New York Times pointed out ...Mindfulness has come to comprise a dizzying range of meanings for popular audiences. It's an intimately attentive frame of mind. It's a …

Finish the Race

Now, when I started this blog I had grand ambitions, I was going to post thought-provoking coaching insights on a daily basis, I was going to challenge the status quo (not the band), I was going to be a pioneer in my field.  That was the plan, then I realised, I don't have that many …

Worried for the future…..

I was never a particularly good swimmer, I was ok i guess. Not that different from the vast majority of youth athletes who walk through the doors of our swimming clubs every day. I disliked training and I disliked what, at the time, felt like constant nagging hindsight shows it was simply the insistence on …

H is for……..

Ok so I know I have skipped a few letters there but I will go back to them next I promise. in the meantime is for............... holistic Characterized by the belief that the parts of something are intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole, the treatment of the whole person, taking into …