The Adjustable Basketball Hoop: How It Changed the Game for Young...
The home basketball hoop used to come standard. A rim, permanently bolted to a wall overhanging the driveway where anyone interested could play.
However, the...
3 Things to Remember These Holidays to Help Make 2018 Your...
School’s done for another year (phew!). The sun’s out and there’s only a few more sleeps until Santa comes! Time to put your feet...
Beware the leaky bucket
The quickest way to fill your bucket of potential is to dump as much water as possible into the top. To find any old...
EP 28 – Hugo Inglis – The Ultimate Competitor
ADS 0028: Hugo Inglis – The Ultimate Competitor
Playing sport on the world stage requires a huge work ethic, incredible skill, and a dogged...
Pat Chat: Nutrition advice for youth athletes
In the first in a three-part series, AD Academy Programme Manager and Lead Coach Patrick Davenport focuses on demystifying nutrition for young athletes.
Nutrition plays...
3 Exercises for getting faster
Explosive athletes win games.
Imagine the rugby player who tears through the gap to score a try in the last minute, or the footballer who...
Do your athletes trust you?
Trust - It’s Not A Coach's Right
It’s easy to think that an athlete’s trust is your right. But it’s not. It must be earned.
Please...
How to motivate your athletes without being over the top: Part...
Part 1 . Turn Up Ready To Work Hard
Skills can be trained, unlike a person’s height.
Training your skills is less about your genes and...
Ep 78- Sophie Devine – Passion, purpose and playing cricket for...
"If you focus on what’s important to you and your standards, then that's really the only thing that should matter... finding your own path...
Don’t sleep on sleep
Sleep is an essential nutrient of life.
Such is its importance, an increasing body of evidence now links poor sleep to chronic disease, including obesity,...