Michael Zweifel
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We like to grab an implement and let our youth athletes experiment, explore & create with them.
You’ll be amazed by what they come up with.
Facilitate don’t dictate
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Curvelinear work is often forgot about. Sports aren’t played in straight lines - gotta be able to maintain speed while running a bend
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After our warm-up we like to do something engaging, competitive, perceptual, and fun.
3-step tag & shoulder tag.
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Sample of how a “drill” can be progressed/manipulated.
From telling which hole where to go & static starts.
To more space, more speed & letting them choose.
To 2v2 w/ teams.
What you don’t see is the before & after- the Athletes talking, analyzing, giving feedback & strategizing
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To make better movers that actually transfer to sport, use humans, progress/vary stimuli, allow/encourage mistakes, challenge perceptual-cognitive aspects
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What agility looks like.
Human stimulus, variety of positional/movement demands, multiple task/environmental constraints.
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During sport, athletes express force/strength through specific actions not through barbells or DBs.
More strength work can & should be viewed & performed in this manner.
You don’t need a weight room to get strong & I’d vow to say the more S&C got out of the wgt room, the better
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Problem with many ball/catching drills is they lack competitiveness, pressure & stress. It’s easy to look great in stationary drills but those don’t make great hands.
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I keep a Word document open on my computer where I jot down notes from each day. Organized it into my - 2017 In Review
- Book Reviews
- Notes from Podcasts/Lectures/CEU's
- Research
- Sample Programs
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Special Teams, Special Dreams!
This crew is amazing!
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Sports require multiple attentional foci. Can athletes allocate that focus to a pass, catch or carrying a ball while still being aware of the environment?
Interestingly, this allocation of attention & manipulation of a ball/racket may contribute to non-contact ACL injuries
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Congrats on another great chapter to the best coach I ever had.
Got into coaching because I got to observe his passion and love for coaching everyday and thought it was the coolest job in the world.
Hope to one day be 1/10th the coach he is.
Now UD - hire
@MilesHookstead
Zweifel to Step Away as Spartans Head Football Coach
📰:
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“The senses initiate movement”
Experimented w/ using touch as our stimulus. Still don’t know how I feel about this but it may be nice change up as we tend to use only visual (if that)
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A lot of things going on here - offensively & defensively - that will help athletes be more adaptable & “knowledgeable” on the field
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It’s 2019 folks... COD & agility are independent skills; can we please learn this.
Also, please stop calling it reactive agility...read the definition and you’ll understand why
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Players were required to finish workouts akin to military training
"Hour of continuous push-ups & up-downs"
What?!
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Another weeks worth a true agility. Added some environmental constraints i.e. Screener/object in way, multiple levels, & competition
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“Chill Out”...As they argue w/ an ump
“Do Your Job”... The guy is probably volunteering
“Stay Professional”... Ironic
“Do it for the kids”...Because arguing balls & strikes is for the kids
“Ridiculous, Terrible”...Yes sports parents are ridiculous & terrible
Absolutely DISGUSTING behaviour by these youth baseball parents.
If this crap keeps happening, youth sports are going to have zero referees left in a few years.
Parents: Stick to your role.
Watch and support the kids.
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What do you want in athletes?
- Creative, Adaptable
- Able Improvise
- Decision-Making
- Unique, Individual Style/Mover
Or
- Robotic
- Reliant on Coach
- Over Thinker
You'll get what your training/practice encourages
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Decipher pertinent info, scan multiple levels, compete
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Pretty big omission here.
Anyone who has watched a snap of D3 football knows Keyser Helterbrand is one of the 5 best WITH the off-field accolades to match.
As a former winner of this award, sad to see the best not being recognized
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Couldn’t be more happy for this guy. Been through a lot, now on new team, making a BIG play!
PS- we worked this catch no less than 100 times over the past year.
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Only the start 📈
Expectation is to win it all.
Results > Hype
@UWLEagleFB
ranked fourth in final Top-25 Poll.
✅11-2 Overall, 7-0 WIAC
✅Most Overall Wins Since 1996
✅WIAC Outright Championship (35th Title)
✅NCAA Division III Quarterfinalist (First Since 1996)
✅Highest Final Poll Ranking in History (6th in 2006)
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Coordination is context specific. There is not one global biomotor of coordination.
Watch the flip & holy s*** that takes incredible coordination.
Watch the throw & holy s*** that’s uncoordinated.
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2 of my favorite Max V "drills" - these really help with posture, front side mechanics, & rhythm/cadence
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No, the key to agility is NOT RFD, it’s an athletes interaction w/ the environment. Ones reciprocal relationship with information-action coupling is key to agility.
This has to be the starting point when discussing agility NOT just purely looking at the kinematic/kinetic outcome
The key to agility (and other things) is the rate of force development.
How fast can you decelerate, stop, and reaccelerate?
Therefore, in my opinion, eccentric force absorption capability is one of the single most important qualities most athletes need.
It all starts there.
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Example of how to continually manipulate the context of the same drill to increase the learning benefit
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- Higher skilled players perform better in agility tests BUT similar in COD to lower skilled players
- Use of flashing lights, colors, arrows requires limited perceptual ability
- Specific perceptual ability is NOT developed thru these generic stimuli
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Love yourz
Super excited for her 1st day of school and her cool new lunch box.
Go raise some hell girl.
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These are great.
Sad guys like this are the norm and think they are in the same stratosphere as professional athletes 🤦♂️
This fan bragged that he could run a 4.4 in the 40-yard dash.
Then
@katienolan
asked him to prove it 😬
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I will die on this hill: people that bash self-organization clearly have no understanding of self-organization.
No matter what you do or how many cues/demos you give, your athletes will still be self-organizing.
Spare me the terrible, totally unrelated analogies.
I will die on this hill of "self-organization." Kids do not know what they do not know. Spare me the lectures on open vs closed drills. You don't drop an airline pilot in and expect him/her to self organize. There has to be an elementary level of teaching first.
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Thankful for the opportunity from
@UWLCoachJanus
, staff and players to join
@UWLEagleFB
l!
Excited to join such a great program and championship tradition!
Let’s go Eagles 🦅
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7-years with my much better half!
@kydugg2
said Vegas had us as long shots to make it this long, but here we are, defying the odds.
Celebrated with hiking, ice cream and pizza, life’s good things.
Plus we got this beautiful and wild daughter that likes to photobomb mom and dad.
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Toughness isn’t about gritting your teeth and powering through an obstacle. It’s not about mud runs and silly things that look difficult but aren’t. Toughness is about making the right decisions under stress and fatigue
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I be willing to bet 99% of people couldn’t run a 400m at his pace.
Absolutely incredible and he looked so damn strong as he finished.
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Hard to see but with every rep starting stance & end point we’re altered. Easy manipulations to enhance learning
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Been really digging extended accel ladders. Gives athletes external feedback of rhythm, cadence, timing, and projections. Been a big help in amplifying sensations for athletes and cleaning up some technical pieces.
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To cap off DB week for
@UWLEagleFB
, had these guys had to go on an adventure around town to race against the clock and solve some riddles.
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Why does SportsCenter post crap like this?
The newest ab workout involves ... watermelons? 😳
(via thelostbreed/Instagram)
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- Expert Movement is context specific
- Lesser skilled athletes lack attunement to context specific information
- practical Applications
1. Evasion Drills
2. SSG
- Scrap the lights & build scenarios/environments
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“A distinguishing factor explaining the capacities of professional athletes is their ability to learn how to process complex dynamic visual scenes”
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Happy bday to my amazing wife. As my parents like to remind me every time I see them, I’m the luckiest guy in the world to have her.
Love you Jenn!
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Some may say it’s just wording semantics but it continues to show the disconnect of understanding what agility is and is not - this is NOT training agility
3 Cone Agility Drill with
@RangerStrength
@PBSCCS
@DugoutStrength
#offseason
#training
#agility
#rangers
=>
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Happy 4th Bday to my little hellion!
Nothing like starting the day off shoveling some fresh powder.
Love you!
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Another way to improve the quality of practice…reduce the amount of unopposed practice.
Make the most of precious practice time with realistic, competitive type catches instead of mostly on air drills
Here’s some of our favorite combat catch activities
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Question:
What are fundamental movements skills?
When coaches say, stick to the basics - what does that mean?
Does an athlete need to skip in order to sprint fast?
Does an athlete need to master a shuffle before doing agility?
Does tumbling/crawling build athleticism?
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Your HS coach is getting paid as well so don’t twist the argument. These stupid battles of public vs private need to stop.
There are good & bad coaches in both sectors, it’s not good guy vs bad guy. Most want the same thing = best for the athlete
Athletes- Just because your high school coach doesn’t charge you $50 an hour for working with you doesn’t mean he doesn’t know what he’s talking about! Individuals who want to see you improve don’t do it for the money!!!
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Why is there an obsession to get full triple extension?
It’s time to question this fascination with triple extension and using it as a basis to use an exercise
This question may make me some enemies in the field but I have to ask:
How many of your athletes doing cleans and snatches actually achieve FULL TRIPLE EXTENSION?
Or are they simply just concerned about catching the bar that they never truly get extended?
Then, why Oly Lift?
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A team won’t regret drafting Calvin Harris. Teams have to be extra diligent with only 5-rounds, they can’t afford to miss on a prospect. Need to draft proven winners and performers...Calvin is just that.
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Did anyone really think this wasn’t going to happen?
If you’ve been around this kid for the last 6mo, you knew he was, mentally, on another level.
@ClarkeBaseball
has some dawgs on their staff!
Congratulations to Clarke (IA) SP Jakob Kirman on throwing the first no hitter of the 2020 NAIA season
#NAIABaseball
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Take 3min to watch this... Athletes and Parents need to hear this loud and clear
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Exposing athletes to retreating backwards is a great investment.
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Unfortunately this is exactly what outsiders think an S&C does. 3-4 hours before a game, trying to get guys pumped up 😔
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PN’s Super ‘Secret’ Steps to Their Athletes Nutrition
1. Grab some fruits, veggies, scoops of protein -> blend -> drink
2. Fill up 3 water bottles (1 liter ea) -> drink all by the end of the day
3. Add an additional veggie to every meal
#nwcpc18
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Homemade fly wheel. Actually pretty smooth & with a few adjustments will be even better. Game changer
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- CLA provides athletes w/ greater representation of the sporting environment
- Training Athletes in isolation of their ‘real performance setting’ should be viewed with skepticism
- Scaling space, time, equipment, players & instructions are all easy ways to implement CLA
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Anybody that says HS athletes respond to anything have clearly never worked with HS athletes because this is far from true and also a jab at those that do work with HS athletes...just do anything, it’ll work 🤦♂️
@NanciGuestRDPhD
@YLMSportScience
@MCahillPhD
@DrJonOliver
@KenClarkSpeed
@MattCrossNZ
@DrRSLloyd
High school athletes respond by drinking milk and doing nearly anything. If an athlete is not developed they will respond to loaded acceleration work. My issue is when they advance, and this is why peak velocity is more important.
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If your kid doesn't play in the 6U t-ball natty, they'll never get noticed by the 7U coaches...
This is brutal
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Players need to learn to play at different speeds - not everything has or should to be at 100% speed
Playing at lower speeds/intensities allows for more ownership/control of movement, increased ability to pick-up information to use for movement & better technical execution
⬇️
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What information do players use to make cuts?
- The speed & positioning of other players (both opponent & teammate)
What is there a ton of just standing around during practice?
- Human bodies
Then what should we use during this activity?
- How about…a stability ball!!
I love this Outside Zone Vision Drill from Packers Training Camp!
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Two UWL Football Camps are coming in June!
These are actual developmental camps - you'll get coached on technique & fundamentals.
This are NOT a mega camp or showcase where all you do is testing.
If you want to actually get better at football, sign-up!
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Daniel Son!
Dan Arnold 1st career TD reception from a future Hall of Fame QB Drew Brees! We see you
@1darnold
!
@UWP_Football
@uwp_pioneers
#SwingTheAxe
Congratulations Dan!
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Podcast on all things baseball preparation w/
@Zachdechant
&
@drsosterer
- Assessment
- Training Pitchers vs Position Players
- Considerations in the Weight Room
- Speed for Baseball
- Recovery After Games/Training
- Daily Maintenance Checks
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Swallow your whistle & words. Reduce feedback where possible.
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Agility is context specific - being agile in one sport doesn’t mean an athlete will be you agile in another.
It’s like hand-eye coordination: Having good hand-eye coordination for baseball doesn’t mean you’ll have good hand-eye in basketball
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Finally home after an incredible weekend at the Sport Skill Movement Congrrence, the brainchild of
@MovementMiyagi
.
Met a ton of coaches, thinkers & people.
Had a lot of great discussions & thoughts challenged.
Even Got locked-up/hit sticked by
@TTU_CoachSal
!
Great weekend!
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High use of COD isn’t advantageous to performance and doesn’t prepare for demands of sport, likely ⬆️ risk of injury
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🧐
Could of swore creating space and time was great agility.
This is why a stop watch is poor use for measuring movement (agility). If anybody watches Mahomes and thinks he doesn’t have great agility, then they don’t understand it
Patrick Mahomes does not have fabulous agility, but he has an exceptional ability to create sufficient time and space -- more so than quarterbacks and other players that are much faster than him.
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Unpopular Football Opinion:
Good on Good periods are more beneficial/important than Scout periods
Speed & competitiveness of Good on Good > Specificity of opponents scheme (usually done poorly) during Scout
Definitely caveats, but most teams have more in common than not
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Much of research focuses on biomechanics and forgets the brain (psychology) and behavior (coordination dynamics).
They all interact and influence each other; unwise to study only one without consideration of the others -Karl Newell
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It’s what happens in May that counts, not February... Proud to be a tiny part of this great team
With today's win over Mount Mercy, Clarke punched a ticket to its fourth straight NAIA National Championship Opening Round.
#RollPride
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-44% common variance between offense & defensive agility - suggesting the two are different skill sets
-CODS did not correlate to defensive agility
-AFL planned agility test is not appropriate for testing agility
-Offensive players should be trained diff than defensive players
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Congrats to BBA athlete Big Dom heading to the Minnesota Vikings!
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Games are an underutilized tool w/ athletes- Spatial awareness, communication, decision making, read/recognition, anticipation, agility, FUN
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“The technique an athlete uses is dependent upon their perception NOT the other way around”
“The “techniques” for successful movement can therefore be considered vast & contunally changing w/ respect to constraints”
@KoreyVanWyk
🔥🔥🔥
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- Basic Nutrition
- Cooking
- Fundamental Movement Skills
- Stress Management
- Critical Thinking
What all high schools should teach:
-Opportunity cost
-Diminishing returns
-Compounding
-Self sufficiency
-Sales 101 (aka dealing w rejection)
-Mindfulness
-Conflict resolution
-Resume building
-Interviewing
-Serving others
-Entrepreneurship
-Finding any answer on Google
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Loading is what makes structural changes, not passive stretching/foam rolling.
An ecc/iso RDL is the best form of hamstring "stretching"
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Best to get this out early to give a full week to digest. Monster discussion w/
@KoreyVanWyk
&
@MovementMiyagi
- Poor perception & decisions lead to poor movement
- We need to start making perceptual monsters, not just physical monsters
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Cataloging practice compared to games is a good way for coaches to evaluate the quality of their practice & if the time they’re spending in practice is representing the skills and behaviors in sport.
A drop-off” color system is easy for sport coaches to read and understand.
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Nobody that is elite is balanced -they're obsessive, forego other areas of their life (social, family, health)...still wanna be that person?
Elite sport is not healthy - hopefully, this is not controversial
What we do pre- & post-career perhaps requires further discussion though
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Allowing players a voice and ownership of their craft... blasphemy
Kerr is letting the players coach against the Suns tonight 😅
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While this is a HUGE improvement compared to most Indy drills, it still can be improved
RBs perceive humans, leverage, speed, angles not bags being tilted left or right
Simply have those coaches act as OL & take blocking steps
Been doing this for years ⬇️
I love this RB Reactive Cut Drill from the Buffalo Bills
✅ If you run a lot of Inside Zone, this is a great drill to add to your RB Individual Period!
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We peak our guys by moving closer to the sport/playbook NOT by trying to peak in the weight room
@TTU_CoachSal
#WeAreTheMovement
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5 × 4 jump squats at 40% 1RM with 3 minutes rest shown to potentiate performance (CMJ, RSI & RFD) 24-48 hours after session. Some evidence to support potentiation training days
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Perception and movement are linked, so it’s wise to keep them coupled...
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More specific & SSC med ball variations today. Been a 3-month progression to get here...getting closer
@ClarkeBaseball
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Why coaches include or exclude a movement based purely on whether triple extension is achieved is mind boggling.
Study sport, triple extension is rarely achieved and In most cases the pursuit of getting triple extension is detrimental
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The concept of a drill means repeating a movement pattern again & again, in a predictable way BUT sports don't operate in predictable ways
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DIY Flywheel!
3 different types you could build - all for about $150-200/ea
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One of the major goals of coaches, yet rarely seen, is encouraging athletes to make things uniquely their own, their craft, their art.
Encouraging them to express who they are, NOT forcing our ideal view on them
#SMSC21
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