Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

We will explore child and adolescent development, overuse injuries, burnout, and how parents, coaches, and sports administrators can collaborate to address these risks. For some private clubs and coaching academies, recruiting children as young as five years old means more clients paying for longer periods of instruction.

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Better Coaching

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Kids start playing organized sports at increasingly younger ages, encouraged by coaches, schools, and often, parents. Bad Coaching Decisions Coaching plays a pivotal role in both preventing and contributing to overuse injuries in amateur athletes. However, bad coaching decisions can have devastating consequences.

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Informed Practitioner in Sport

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Thanks to this evolutionary history we are specifically adapted for endurance running. But the far greater toll continues to be paid by the many runners who must endure being trapped in a cycle of chronic or recurrent injury and being deprived of the activity that brings them joy and supports their mental and physical health.

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