Athlete Development

No coach. No rules. No scheduled training sessions. Yet hours of purposeful practice. Why? Part of the beauty of coaching early morning training sessions is...

Michael Halliday is a Head Coach at AD and the Lead Coach at the AUT University Akoranga Campus on the North Shore. He is...

Whilst setting up to present at a coach seminar on the weekend, the speaker before me jokingly noted – “most of us are just...

Setting goals is easy. All you need to do is to decide what it is you really want and write it down. The hard...

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’...

“But coach, it’s only 5 minutes, I slept in.” You’re right, it is only five minutes. Is punctuality really that important? The thing is that...

1. Always greet your athletes with an open ear We’re often so invested in getting the content of our session out that we treat our...

Recently I attended the sports awards dinner for a local high school. I missed another that same night, and will be heading along to...

Have you ever wondered why some athletes appear to engage much more in certain types of exercise and activities than others? Consider an athlete...