Success: A Story of Dreams Come True, Burnout, and Finding Joy Again
Maybe it’s easy to write about success when I’ve had a gold medal around my neck, multiple appointments to the United States National Team, and numerous national championship titles to my name, or, maybe that’s what makes it a more challenging topic to discuss. With the margin for error being so small and the expectations of success so high, it feels like only a matter of time before one of these things has to give.
Functional Movement: What’s the Big Idea?
Of all the exercises out there in the world, there are seven foundational, functional movements that are natural and bio-mechanically safe to the body. When building them into a strength and conditioning program, they are often multi-planar and multi-joint. In other words, you get a LOT of bang for your buck!
Feedback is Your Friend: Making the Most of Constructive Criticism
When the going gets tough, you’re tired, and you’re starting to receive constructive criticism as just plain criticism, here are some tips on how to accept and use that feedback in a valuable way.
Finding the Right Correction
What if I told you that a long stream of corrections can actually be counter-productive? What we need are some simple principles to guide how we effectively correct our athletes, keeping us and our athletes sane during the sometimes stressful moments of training. As the season gets rolling, you find the routine tightening up, and corrections are tuning into the finer details, here are some “corrections for correcting” to keep things effective…