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 79: Paudie Roche – The Arsenal Way
"We're looking at long-term athlete development, and that requires a lot of patience, coaching and structure to the programme where performance isn't the end...
EP 45 – John Lythe – Dealing with Failure, Monitoring Workload,...
My guest on the show today is a former sport scientist who now works with software tools and technology to help Strength and Conditioning...
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...
Is science making us stupid?
For 2 million years homo-sapiens roamed the earth as an insignificant animal, fighting for their survival. They were learners, yes, but they learned through...
EP 70 – Matt Hunter – Director of Youth Sports Performance...
“If you not keeping them around because your training sux, or you’re not a good guy to hang out with, then you don’t get...
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...
Making strides
Every morning, AUT Millennium's Sports Hall is buzzing with noise. Music acts as a backdrop to the array of obstacles and equipment laid out,...
It means more when there’s a ‘why’
Too often do we get caught up in the content. We believe that simply knowing more ‘stuff’ is what's important. Or that just by putting more information in front of our...
More On The Gap: Navigating Puberty in Sport
The years of puberty are rough.
A young athlete goes through an accelerated growth while transitioning from child to young adult that makes navigating sport...