Over the past few months, I’ve contemplated one of the most complicated topics in baseball. Travel ball. This multi-million dollar machine has watered down local rec leagues and become the preferred source of youth baseball. This expensive, multi-layered topic that is travel ball has caused the landscape of the kid’s game to change. As aContinue reading “Travel ball: Is it necessary to be successful?”
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BE A GREAT TEAMMATE – Rant to follow
My concern is that kids are learning that your statistics matter more than the team’s. If you go 4-4 and your team loses by 8, you did good. If you go 0-4 and your team wins 3-1, you did poorly. This form of affirmation can only lead to further problems as that player progresses through the ranks and gets to higher levels. I’ve seen this type player in minor league baseball. The team is up by 5, they strike out, they come into the dugout and throw their helmet and break their bat in the hallway because THEY are struggling.
Separating yourself as a young athlete
Phrases that get past down from generation to generation with no substance behind them drive me nuts. Sayings that you hear trying to elicit motivation with no road map to get to where you want to go. Could you imagine if a coach got his or her players fired up to go somewhere 5 hours away and then didn’t give them directions? If they wanted the whole team to arrive at the destination wouldn’t they want to give as much detail as possible?
Throwing Harder, Running Faster, Jumping Higher
This information was made for you. I created Peak Sports to provide the best quality training service and focus on the specific feats of strength and power that are the separator between good and great. I believe the role of a strength and conditioning coach is there to support the players goals and align my thoughts and goals with the team. Through training for better mobility, gaining strength, and becoming more fit you will be able to hone your skills to a greater degree.
Building your own house
As a coach, I’m drawn to using analogies as a way to describe the complex nature of developing athletes. For some reason it provides clarity finding connections with seemingly unrelated things. On the one hand, coaching athletes SHOULD be simple. We are servant leaders there to help reach their potential, right? As well all know, it’s never that simple. Psychology, anatomy, physiology, kinesiology and communication are some of the many things we need to understand to be effective
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