Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

They are not educated or trained to understand whats necessary to properly develop our youth. Children have shorter limbs and different leverage points compared to adults, which influences their biomechanics during movements like throwing, kicking, or running. Prior to puberty, growth patterns can be erratic.

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. Daryl Siedentop extensively researched physical education curriculum.

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What's New in Adapted Physical Education

JULY 27, 2022

For this episode we had a discussion with Dr. Ron Croce, a full professor at the University of New Hampshire, about his interesting career that intersected with adapted physical education, neurology, biomechanics, and motor learning.

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Better Coaching

MARCH 5, 2021

Being educated should be a major priority for all coaches, and really, all people. They reviewed ten biomechanical studies on kinematic or electromyographic analysis of pitching a curveball, as well as five epidemiologic studies that assessed pain or injury incidence in pitchers throwing the curveball.

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PLT4M

AUGUST 30, 2022

PE warm up routines are an excellent opportunity to kick start physical education classes. An established physical education warm up routine can give students clear expectations to start class. Warm up exercises for physical education classes can serve multiple purposes.

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Informed Practitioner in Sport

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

In seeking to maximize the return on investment in our professional development and continuing education, applying the Law of Diminishing Returns (Figure 2) may be helpful. From an employee’s perspective, it pays to be both a generalist and a specialist. A generalist with multiple areas of specialist knowledge and expertise is better still.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Physical Education Framework for California Public Schools is a 342-page document that outlines the California state standards for PE. ” From there, the framework outlines a “standards-based instructional design process” that shows a step-by-step process for physical education programs and standard alignment. .”

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