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What I Am Reading – Transformer by Nick Lane
What I would say about any of Nick Lane’s books is that they make a very complex subject easy to understand. The depth in understanding cellular biology and biochemistry is impressive, combining that actually explaining in a helpful way makes it an extremely beneficial resource…
Strength Coach Chronicles – In Season Training (Part I)
This is the most important period of training you will have in a calendar year as a S&C Coach. For one there is the most potential risk. More importantly this is the longest stretch of continuous training you will have. The length potentially gives the most relative value…
Strength Coach Chronicles – Transitioning Back to Season
Transitioning back to in season is a lot more than S&C coaches really let on. Taking into consideration that you were the primary aspect of an athlete’s development into a relatively small one, seemingly overnight, is not the easiest thing to do. The biggest challenge…
Strength Coach Chronicles – Working with Highly Motivated Athletes
We discussed in the last Strength Coach Chronicles how to work with unmotivated athletes. In that we described a standard distribution of motivation and skill within a group. On one end we have unmotivated athletes and on the other end motivated athletes. Both have...
What I’m Reading – The Business of Movement
If you have been following Functional Movement Systems for a while, you have been waiting for this kind of book. The biggest thing is taking a large group of assessments and making a comprehensive manual covering all that you need to know about the system. Personally...
Strength Coach Chronicles – Working with Unmotivated Athletes
Anyone that has ever worked in a team setting knows there is a natural standard distribution to motivation towards training. Most fall into the kind of generally interested in developing themselves. Others fall into the really over do their interest and have no interest whatsoever…
What I’m Reading (Classic) – Strongest Shall Survive
If you are unfamiliar with this book, it is a shame it had a huge concentric circle through all of S&C. This was a proverbial leap from niche based aspects of training such as weightlifting, powerlifting, or bodybuilding and crossed over into direct performance…
Strength Coach Chronicles – Working with Sports Nutritionist
This is one that is exceptionally hard for me. I get a lot of calls on recommendations for S&C coaches from the team setting. You can clearly see the connection between people seeking my advice on a potential S&C coach with my experiences. I also get a lot of...
What I’m Reading – Future Perfect by Steven Johnson
Peer to Peer is the central theme of the internet, but has broad scope impacts in other domains like businesses or team settings. The idea is that decisions are made by the majority of the people within the network – consensus over hierarchy is what peer to peer…
Strength Coach Chronicles – Working with Sports Medicine
I want to establish that an Athletic Trainer that gets their CSCS is not productive or helpful to us as S&C coaches. The way NSCA has set up their accreditation is to get as many people as possible a part of and opening their flagship certification is a business...
What I’m Reading – Work Rules by Laszlo Bock
In a previous blog I reviewed the book Working Backwards on how Amazon creates a framework for hiring, managing, and retaining employees. Work Rules is a very similar concept, except from Google. I am attracted to these books because I am a business owner. However,...
Strength Coach Chronicles – Working with Sport Coaches
Working with coaches was always my greatest weakness. I always struggled with the power dynamic with coaches and being subservient to someone that I felt I worked harder than or was more capable of than. But this is a classic 'learn from my mistakes' situation, and my...