The Voice Inside Your Head
You will face challenges, set-backs and criticism in your sporting journey every day. Ultimately, your success will depend on how you think to overcome...
Ego vs task
How we perceive our environment makes a huge difference to how we learn and strive in the world.
Take persistence, for example. An essential characteristic...
Ep 73- Dougal Allan- Dreaming big, the art of reflection, and...
“I think I learnt from quite a young age that I was able to really become more reflective and make more sense of the...
More instead of better?
As a young athlete it’s easy to get caught up watching the professionals. They make the game look so easy. The Sonny Bill Williams’...
Why every young athlete should be strength training
It’s highly likely that your sport involves some kind of jumping. And everything that goes up must come down. Right?
When you land, high amounts of force...
Love Sport and Science? 3 exciting career options you’ll be interested...
My final two years at secondary school were an exciting time in my life. I was having great success in my sport as a...
3 steps to becoming elite
Over the past 10 weeks I’ve been helping 10 top athletes from a local school take the next step up to elite performance. We...
Ep 77- Rick Howard – Professor and Expert Youth Fitness Coach
"I have a kid who could be a pretty good athlete, but if he gets a 97 on a test, his parents ride him...
Young athletes are getting less skillful
When learning a new sport-specific skill, an athlete’s success relies heavily on their existing level of ‘movement literacy’. In other words, how quickly and...