Today’s episode is a solo show, where unlike the question and answer shows I’ve done in the past, I wanted to speak at length on a single topic that I felt could offer value to coaches and the opportunity to sit and reflect on how each of us arrived at how we see the coaching of athletes.

Today’s show is all about my own development as a coach, and the evolution of viewpoints I have on various aspects of sports performance training.  These viewpoints include ideas on cueing, maximal strength training, periodization, plyometrics, special strength, and mental training.

The coaching of athletes is not a robotic venture; athletes need to optimize their own machinery in a manner that reflects with own body-type, biochemistry and environmental preferences.  In the same way as coaches, I don’t believe we should all hold the exact same slant of coaching athletes, and each of us how individual aspects of our system that can deliver a unique experience to athletes in line with our personal philosophy.

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