How To Handle Not Getting Enough Playing Time
If you spend a game warming the bench, it can be frustrating. If you spend a season warming the bench, you have become better at precisely one thing: [...]
How to Inspire Kids to Exercise
Inspiration Before Perspiration “How can I motivate my child to do more exercise?” Parents often ask me. “Play with them,” is my answer. This may seem simplistic, but it works. [...]
How To Manage Student-Athlete Stress
Growing up is stressful. Competing in organized sport is stressful. Balancing schoolwork, life, and competitive sport is stressful. Watching your child experience the joys and despairs of their young lives [...]
The Dangers Of Labelling Youth Athletes
Youth coaches pick teams to win matches at the weekends. If they win on Saturday, then they are deemed to have done a good job. However, this one match is [...]
Weight Training for Field Hockey
Hockey is an intermittent field team sport: players walk, jog, run and sprint in different directions over the course of the 70-minute match, covering between 8-11 km. The goalkeeper is [...]
Why High School Athletes Should Take Naps
High school athletes would get a plentiful, deep, and refreshing sleep each night in an ideal world. They would wake up naturally before their alarm because they had gone to [...]
