Coaching

Live from the NSCA Euro Con 2025, Day 1

March 14, 2025 / Athletic Speed / Coaching, research, strength

Here I am at the National Strength and Conditioning Associations European Conference 2025! I was looking forward to Boyd Epley making the opening address, and he delivered. One of the NSCA founders, he also started Husker Power which became the blueprint for NCAA strength and conditioning programmes. His book, The Path to Athletic Power1 had a […]

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Some Rules are Made to be Broken

Anders Ericsson (not pictured above… it’s some other guy) was a pioneer in the field of motor learning and produced some excellent research on the topic. In a study of classically trained musicians,1 he calculated that it took 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become an expert. Those that surpassed that threshold landed gigs in prestigious