Youth Sport: How Much Is Too Much?
How do you know how much sport is too much?
How do you know that all the training you’re doing isn’t doing more harm than...
What You Need to Know About Playing Up in Youth Sport
On Friday night, after a presentation I gave in front of a room full of sporting parents, I was asked a question about optimising...
Stop yelling from the sideline to go harder, and start teaching...
Have you ever had an athlete pull out of a maximal fitness test claiming they’re done, when clearly it’s just not the case?
Have...
Why the youth athlete is much more vulnerable to injury
Over half of school age children participate in at least 3 hours of organised sport each week.
For many young athletes it is considerably more....
EP 35 – Nicolas Gill, Ph.D. – Coaching the All Blacks,...
“It’s not about how sore you become, or about how hard you’ve pushed yourself into a hole, it’s about the value you’ve added to...
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...
How to Stop Your Emotions Affecting Your Game
Does your game crumble under high pressure? Are you hard on yourself when you make a mistake? Are you quick to blame others when...
An important question for every sports parent
A generation ago, parents believed that development occurred naturally. As long as the basic needs of love, play and security were met, they had...
What can we learn from Isaac Newton?
Sir Isaac Newton, widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, complied three laws of motion. He used them to...
3 Things I Recently Learned About Talent
Last week we ran a conference on talent development. I opened the day by giving a short presentation on talent, and how it's effecting...