Physical & Nutrition
Spatial Awareness Starts in the Gym
One of the benefits of consistently dedicating yourself to improving your physical performance is the body awareness you earn through testing your nervous system every time you work out. The body is an amazing tool, and will adapt to the environments it finds itself. In the world of sports performance, developing a high level of proprioception (simply put, body awareness) will certainly improve yo...
How Are You Feeling?
It’s Saturday morning at about 7:50am, and our Adult Members are rolling in getting ready to start their day by getting their blood moving and crushing a workout. The focus of the day is explained and the dynamic warm up gets under way. As we touch base with each athlete we ask “How are you feeling today?” This question typically gets answered in two ways: with a hint of sarcasm from a reply...
Why It’s Important For Junior Athletes To Play Multiple Sports
Junior golf, like many youth sports, can become all-encompassing and overwhelming as a junior athlete progresses to each level of the sport. It is important to maintain perspective and recognize the importance of developing certain fundamental movement skills (i.e. running, hopping, skipping, jumping, throwing, catching, striking, etc.) at particular points throughout the athlete’s physical deve...
Stick to It
I’m going to start this newsletter by stating right up front I am going off the beaten path of my normal contributions of physical performance and nutrition this week. Trust me, however, that this message still relates to those topics quite directly no matter what life stage you are in. Webster’s dictionary defines discipline as “control gained by enforcing obedience or order”, “orderly ...
Experiment!
I am taking it back to a session I coached last year that resonated with me and all of the athletes who showed up to work out that day. It sends an important message, not only to fellow coaches who may find themselves trying to give the athlete the answer as opposed to letting them find it for themselves, but also to the athlete who may find they rely too much on their coach and don’t truly “o...