Coach Reflections Day 1 (Version 2) It was a false start. At least in a metaphorical sense. With the 2023 National track championships kicking off the first event that our team was to be involved in came and went without a result. It is typical for rounds to be...
I get asked by younger clinicians and coaches very often about programming, particularly structuring of a weekly or similar length microcycle. For the uninitiated a microcycle is a cluster of training sessions or intervention units that are placed into a period...
Structuring any intervention requires balancing a number of competing interests. We spoke in our last article about the idea that periodisation is essentially lining up our stress units to match the needs of the individual/s and the activity that that they are taking...
Periodisation can often appear complicated. For the uninitiated periodisation is the organization of training or an intervention to achieve a particular performance or characteristic within a given time frame. This makes sense for example when we plan out a return to...
Two weeks ago we spoke about objectivity and how using objective measurements is often helpful in establishing a clear and unbiased picture of what is occurring. But what happens when the objective data doesn’t provide the full picture? A recent article by Lluc...
‘You must look at the fundamentals’. You hear this phrase often in finance circles. And for the most part it has been an accurate principle to live by. But as we have shifted into the information age, the age of fake news, the age of hype and bs, we have seen things...
