First Beat

MARCH 12, 2025

TRIMP (Training Impulse) is a powerful metric that helps sports teams quantify training load using heart rate data, enabling coaches to optimize performance, manage injury risk, and ensure athletes are game-ready. In this article, well explain what TRIMP is , how its calculated, and how it can be applied to coaching decisions.

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Learning Through Sport

MARCH 23, 2025

I reckon that the research shows this is how the coach and others 'construct' and input into the sport environment rather than being inherent to sport itself. Wretman (2017) found participation in school sport had a significant standardised effect on academic achievement. School sport and academic achievement. Keane, F., &

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Stanford Childrens

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

“You’ve got to do something in your spare time, so you might as well make it count, right?” Biden Lifetime Achievement Award, which is the highest honor in the President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) program. Coaches play a valuable role for kids who don’t have fathers,” he says. Service is what I’ve always believed in.”

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The Sporting

APRIL 3, 2024

12 Questions with Baseball Player Ian Blease The Sporting Blog interviews baseball player Ian Blease about his time playing, managing and coaching baseball. Is there a coach, teammate or even a club from your youth that has had a material impact on your life in sport today? Norman Wells Ballpark, Bootle, Merseyside.

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MSU

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, this doesn’t happen automatically for kids who participate in youth sports, rather the coach needs to be intentional in creating an environment that fosters life skill development. One of the challenges for coaches is balancing talent development while also focusing on whole athlete development.

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Magnus Health

JULY 12, 2024

And the benefits couldn’t be better — participation in sports can improve academic achievement and overall self-esteem, and athletes are more likely to engage in health-promoting behaviors than their non-athlete peers. Sleep also plays a pivotal role in overall athlete wellness. Many also felt mentally exhausted.

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Physical Education Update

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For track coaches like me, the revelations about professional baseball players taking performance enhancers is no surprise at all. The fact is, track provides a big paycheck to very few people…a way to achieve a college scholarship perhaps, but it’s not considered the pathway to a multi-million pro sport career. Not a chance.

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Sports Coaching FAQ

APRIL 11, 2021

Self-confidence is a vital component of successful sports performance and is an attribute that effective sports coaches seek to develop in their athletes along side technical and tactical skills. We will now explore Self-efficacy and how it can be applied to developing sports coaches’ self-confidence. What is Self-efficacy?

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 30, 2021

Published 12/03/2012 Updated 30/01/2021 In my role as a teaching and coaching 'academic' I get to see a lot of physical education and sport teaching/coaching, at both primary and secondary school level and in community coaching settings. Involving students/players in game play is not the end of the story.

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The Physical Educator

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When I made the jump from teaching to full-time instructional coaching and content creation, I knew that I needed to get crystal clear in regard to the philosophy that would guide my work. With the new year right around the corner, I’ve started to reflect on who I want to be, what I want to achieve, and how I want to feel in 2023.

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First Beat

AUGUST 4, 2023

Focused on empowering decision-makers with data, Hat-TriQ is a unique analysis product assisting elite teams with detailed players analysis, information on how the players play the game, how the players practice, and the player’s well-being within a single platform. Focused on empowering decision-makers with data.

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AASP

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Athletic careers end for a variety of reasons including, age, deselection, decrements in performance, loss of motivation, having achieved all their desired goals, non-renewal of contract, or injury. Athletic relationships might also end as teammates move in different directions and coaches focus their attention on those still competing.</p>

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 2, 2023

It has long been argued that teaching and coaching must be based on sound, rigorous research and systematic evidence of what works, how and why it works, where it works and for whom it works (Slavin, 2002). Engagement Engagement is a precursor to achievement ( Boykin & Noguera, 2011). Engagement can be considered in three areas.

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Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

So, my attempt now is to figure out what are we doing well and not so well when we start our intervention planning by looking at a predetermined exactness of the outcome we want and working backwards. We go through with the lessons and usually find it hard to decide if we had achieved what we need to.

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Learning Through Sport

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Small sided games (SSGs) have been part of the coaching lexicon for decades. The increasing recognition of SSG as a training and coaching/teaching tool over the last forty years has led to the research community paying increasingly greater attention to them. Pill, S., & & Agnew, D. International Sports Studies, 41 (2), 5-31.

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The Sporting

JULY 10, 2023

1: Great Personal Trainers & Coaches Keep learning By this I mean don’t get lazy and think you could teach your sessions with your eyes closed. If these clients are choosing to spend their time and money with you, give them a fun experience that leaves them with a smile on their face as well as sweat on their brow.

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AASP

MARCH 21, 2024

<p>The pressure to achieve the "perfect" body is palpable, affecting individuals from all walks of life. In this blog post, we will explore the key findings and implications of research, emphasizing how self-compassion is showing promise as an approach to promoting healthy body image and overall well-being.</p>

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Reinventing the Game

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Times like this, we provide PE that is activity focused, as we work towards learners’ immediate well-being, having fun, getting a break, etc. In a recent PE conference I attended, there was a panel discussion session with successful individuals in the area of coaching, sports administration and academia. It seems like stopgap measures.

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Sports Coaching FAQ

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A challenge faced by novice and experienced sports coaches alike is obtaining and retaining the attention of the kids being coached. If a coach can get an athlete’s attention effectively then the information being communicated is more likely to be understood, retained, and acted upon and the player is more likely to progress.

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The Sporting

JUNE 26, 2023

He achieved everything a New Zealand All Black can achieve. It will be a long time before any other player achieves the success that Richie McCaw did during his illustrious career. He is a well-respected man in the global rugby community and in 2021 he was knighted for services to rugby.

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Whole Child Sports

JANUARY 6, 2020

We do this because, as parents, we are our children’s first coaches. As our children grow into physically active, upright beings and we introduce them to sports, we pass the coaching baton to others, hopeful that while playing sports with their peers, our kids will be taught new skills, make friends, and develop a passion for exercise.

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The Sporting

MARCH 12, 2023

You'll leave your gymnastics class with a sense of accomplishment, lots of good vibes and the drive to achieve in whatever you do. The coach is actively involved in participation in the class, which is not that common in other sports. The support of a coach and teammates in gymnastics classes is guaranteed.

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The Sporting

MARCH 24, 2023

They also show a healthy amount of their bodies as well! Following these fitness idols can help you achieve your own fitness goals. followers AKA, the body coach, Joe Wicks is one of the most popular fitness trainers out there. She helps people to set realistic fitness goals and shows them how to actually achieve them.

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MSU

APRIL 12, 2019

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Sport Coaching and Leadership Online Programs. Perhaps the most important goal for coaches is developing the movement skills of their athletes. Perhaps the most important goal for coaches is developing the movement skills of their athletes. The answer is simple, right?

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Stanford Childrens

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A core team of caregivers helped Scott Garman overcome injuries and achieve his dream of becoming a D1 diver . When I first started diving, I wasn’t sure I wanted to keep doing it, but my coach said he could take me far. He’s a well-rounded diver who competes on all levels of springboard and platform.

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Sports Coaching FAQ

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sports coaching on a one-on-one basis can provide a fantastic opportunity to provide targeted advice and guidance to an athlete or player to support their development however, it can also bring with it drawbacks, particularly if the sport being coached one to one is a team sport. We will now examine each step in more detail.

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The Sporting

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Mavs head coach at the time, Rick Carlisle, said: "At one point, we thought there might be a slight chance Dončić could fall to us, but a couple of days ago it was pretty clear that there was no way that was going to happen. Top Achievements Two MVP awards, three All-NBA 1st Team selections, four All-Stars and one Olympic silver medal.

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Physical Education Update

AUGUST 27, 2022

Well no, not really.”. Once players achieve a certain skill level most people would have a difficult time in distinguishing the best in the world from the also-rans. “Because the players are better.”. How do you know the players are better?”. Because they get had paid more.”. Can you tell that the players are better just by watching?”.

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The Sporting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Matt Claes is the head coach and founder of Weight Loss Made Practical - A personal coaching company that helps busy people lose weight and keep it off. For me the first and easiest tip for increasing accountability with your training is to hire a coach. I have over three years of experience coaching athletes. Scheduling.

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The Sporting

MAY 16, 2023

It wasn’t until the 90-91 season that Zidane started to become a regular at Cannes, showing glimpses of his incredible talent and helping them achieve their highest Ligue 1 finish by becoming 4th. Two goals in the final as well as an overall man-of-the-match display from Zidane helped guide his nation to an unprecedented victory.

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Heartzones

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Earning a full ride athletic scholarship to the University of Nevada-Reno, the authentic and funny Nicole Smith recalls, “My best achievements included being named the Gatorade State Player of the Year for Girls Basketball in Arizona 1987.”

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Stanford Childrens

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Since assuming her leadership roles at Stanford Medicine in 2016 (she’s also physician-in-chief at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford), Leonard has been figuring out how to achieve gender equity in the Department of Pediatrics. Division chiefs had different levels of leadership skill and ability to advocate for their faculty.

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PLT4M

MARCH 6, 2023

Adapted physical education and adapted physical activity programs play a critical role in promoting physical activity and overall well-being for individuals with disabilities. That means we must see this, as well as other research, as a direct call for inclusion for students with disabilities. In this article Alex X.

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Player Development Project

MAY 3, 2021

Many coaches wonder about the best way to allocate playing time within their team. Factors like the environment we’re coaching in, the individual needs of our players, and what we’re trying to achieve as a team will all impact our approach. The post Should We Give Kids Equal Playing Time in Youth Soccer?

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The Sporting

MAY 17, 2023

The Seattle Supersonics hung around in the Western Conference, but failed to reach the prominence it had once achieved during the Kemp/Payton era. The team fired their coach Paul Westhphal, and replaced him with Nate McMillan. In 2002 Seattle did not have a winning percentage of at least.500, 500, which ended a streak of 11 years.

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Montessori Physical Education

APRIL 16, 2022

For this age group, we have a new mantra, and it goes: Value the Long Term Over the Short Term From a strict sports perspective, this means we need strive for success in achieving the ultimate goal: a championship. Valuing the long term over the short term easily applies to life as well.

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 25, 2023

Physical Education teachers and sport coaches have in common the development of a curriculum (program of learning) and the method (pedagogy) to teach the content of the curriculum. In creating a curriculum, in physical education and sport coaching environments time is limited but also somewhat known. Where this occurs, 'How to teach?'

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