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Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog: August 2014

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Athletic development and everything related. which means everything. Saturday, August 30, 2014. Technology AND Coaching (not VS). How Florida State Hacked Football's Fitness Code. Instead of focusing solely on the players, however, his staffers are glued to an array of computer monitors that display a constantly updating stream of colorful numbers, bar graphs, and pie charts.". Paying close attention to your athletes and everything they do, not watching computer monitors. Technology is definitely pus...

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Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog: June 2013

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Athletic development and everything related. which means everything. Friday, June 21, 2013. I think playing tag scares performance coaches. It does me. The fear is probably two-fold; scary in that some organizational control has been given up, and scary that it carries a greater risk of an injury. Yet paradoxically, there is a plea for young athletes to engage in multiple sports. What synthesizes great athletic movement? At some point athletes have to be exposed. Playing area dimensions can be adjusted f...

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Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog: January 2013

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Athletic development and everything related. which means everything. Thursday, January 24, 2013. Is it one or the other? Or, can you do both? As Carl pointed out in his latest blog. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty ...

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Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog: April 2013

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Athletic development and everything related. which means everything. Thursday, April 25, 2013. Quality Control Coaching (2). This is the second talk I gave at the Sanford Power. Strength and Conditioning Clinic. A special thanks to their (Sanford Power) director Randy Martin for inviting me to give 2 presentations and a practical session. I finished up with how I try to evaluate myself, and how I approach each training session - just as I am trying to get athletes to improve their abilities and skills, s...

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Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog: a coach's battlefield

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Athletic development and everything related. which means everything. Friday, May 30, 2014. I recently posted this photo on Instagram and began to discuss some of the great things about hill sprinting and using hills for training purposes. Here are the hill sprinting/training thoughts I posted:. Hill sprints - not the 'end all, be all', but hey, Walter Payton did them! Good for some acceleration abilities but be wary of excessive inclines causing extensive ground contact times. Good for the achilles/gastr...

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Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog: February 2013

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Athletic development and everything related. which means everything. Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Creating A Shared Reality. Olympic lifting is the best way to develop power. Stated as a fact). I think Olympic lifting is the best way to develop power. I think Olympic lifting is one of the best ways to develop power. Olympic lifting is one possibility for developing power. We are more powerful because of our use of the Olympic lifts. Stated as knowing causation). Thursday, February 21, 2013. I understand t...

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Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog: "Moving is probably just very pleasurable."

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Athletic development and everything related. which means everything. Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Moving is probably just very pleasurable.". From Action, the foundation for cognitive development. By Claes von Hofsten. And Frank Forencich in a recent interview. This, of course, is nonsense. Every child and every dog knows that movement is inherently pleasant. They move, not for some ulterior motive, but because it feels good. That is, the motivation is in the movement, nor in something external.

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Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog: June 2014

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Athletic development and everything related. which means everything. Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Hanging, swinging, and brachiating. All babies are born with a branch-holding. Reflex; in fact, infants are pound-for-pound. Incredibly strong, and are capable of holding. Themselves suspended by grasping a finger or. Emma Pennock "From Gibbons to Gymnasts: A Look at the Biomechanics and Neurophysiology of Brachiation in Gibbons and its Human Rediscovery". As the importance of this 'monkey business' is evident i...

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Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog: March 2013

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Athletic development and everything related. which means everything. Friday, March 15, 2013. Social theory for coaches. I enjoyed this paper. It's a conversation that we need to have with ourselves on this aspect of coaching. Denison, Jim. "Social theory for coaches: a Foucauldian reading of one athlete's poor performance." International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching 2.4 (2007): 369-383. You can listen to an interview with Jim at The Canadian Athletics Coaching Centre. The 300 yard shuttle.

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Aaron Schwenzfeier's Blog: April 2014

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Athletic development and everything related. which means everything. Monday, April 21, 2014. The glorious and immortal medicine ball - 3000 plus years of potency. The story goes, the Greek physician Hippocrates would gives his patients animal skins filled with sand to throw around - essentially, healing them. As long as there have been athletes, there have been medicine balls." - Istvan Javorek. Exercises with the Medicine Ball" by William J. Cromie. 1906. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mike T Nelson's Blog.