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...
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...
EP 69 – Amanda Stanec – Finding Joy in Physical Activity...
“Movement is truly the vehicle to teach the principles, to engage with others in joyful ways, to then problem solve and transfer that to...
EP 24 – Adam Storey – Olympic Weightlifting, Super Rugby, and...
Dr Adam Storey (@agstorey) is the Sports Science Manager and Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Blues Super Rugby Team.
Adam and I have...
EP8 – Helene Wilson: Talent, Cooperation in team sport and where...
This episode I’m chatting with a greater thinker in the game of Netball, Helene Wilson, she is a coaching guru and has just taken...
The Right Way to Achieve your Goals
Knowledge is power, right?
Unfortunately, knowledge is only power when you know how to apply it. Because access to knowledge is easier than ever before...
EP 46 – Braden Currie – Hard Work, Developing Confidence, and...
My guest on the show today describes himself as “a self-motivated person, living in one of the world’s most amazing place, doing what I...
EP 32 – Matt Scorringe – Professional Surfing, Coaching Kids, and...
Matt Scorringe first represented New Zealand in Surfing in Bali at the age of 14. He went on to represent New Zealand in his...
Advice for Young Athletes from Dame Valerie Adams
(Listen to the excerpt from Valerie Adams here)
“I think if you hand everything to a young athlete they’ll never learn. You actually need that...
Lessons from A Silver Fern
Guest Contribution: Anna Harrison - New Zealand Netballer.
Another big year of Northern Mystics and New Zealand Silver Fern Netball commitments has come to an...
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EP 69 – Amanda Stanec – Finding Joy in Physical Activity...
“Movement is truly the vehicle to teach the principles, to engage with others in joyful ways, to then problem solve and transfer that to...
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,...
EP 68 – Nick Levett– Becoming a More Aware Youth Coach
“As coaches, what we do is create environments that draw people’s attention to the things they need to consider, that will help them be...
Creative People
By nature, creative people:
View the world uniquely;
Have a wider range of emotions;
Make connections between one thing and another in ways that...
The Most Effective Use of Talent
How we behave depends on what is important to us.
When our goal is winning the U15 league this season, we pick the bigger, faster...
