Coaching Matters goes weekly now, a round-up of the articles I have found interesting in the past week relating to coaching, sport science, physical preparation and skill acquisition.
Of note this week is that Rob Pacey of Pacey Performance has revamped his website and content under the banner of Strength of Science. Rob has been producing very high quality podcasts with excellent standard of guests for just under 3 years and has now brought in some new features to his offering. Of particular interest is Audio Abstracts where he discusses research papers with the authors giving context and their own words to the scientific papers. I think this is a great idea and helps bring research to life so definitely worth checking out – www.strengthofscience.com.
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Don’t forget to check out the Coaching Matters Live Round Up Tool, all the previous Coaching Matters blogs, my Notes From blogs of various lectures/CPD I have attended and various random thoughts on coaching.
Top 5
- #Relearn: Craftsmanship by Sporticus
- Inside Red Bull’s extreme bootcamp where athletes become winners
- What are the most valuable things everyone should know?
- Jim Wendler: Random Thoughts on Training
- Mark O’Sullivan: Representative Seminar/Workshop Design
General Sports/Coaching
- Mark Bennett presenting High Performance Coaching Principles
- Don’t flip out if you see Hurricanes players performing circus tricks
- Developing Education by Mark O’Sullivan
- David Flatman: Blame game reflects badly on football’s super-egos
- Terry Condon: When Competition Kills Ambition
- How to open up the next level of human performance | Steven Kotler | TEDxABQ
- The Art of Relationship Based Coaching
- A book and random thoughts by Henk Kraaijenhof
Skill Acquisition/Dynamic Systems
- Don’t think, move! – The Science of Choking
- Are we a step closer to being able to measure football IQ?
- Dave Snowden: Humans are neither ants nor data processors
- The Video Analyst: What can we learn from Skill Acquisition
- Constraints based soccer coaching
Physical Preparation
- Continuing Education – Are You Financing a Sham?
- Does a Post-Workout ‘Anabolic Window of Opportunity’ Really Exist?
- Maths and the 21st Century S&C Coach by Jason Weber
- What’s a strength coach worth? It can hardly be quantified
- Lachlan Wilmot: Hamstring Damage Resistance – Are You Attacking Both Ends?
Sport Science
- Timothy Caulfield: The straw men of integrative health and alternative medicine
- The real plague affecting science? It isn’t fraud
- Steve Magness: “How do you feel?”- Understanding What Athlete Feedback Tells Us
- Metabolic power: powerful enough to drive Ferraris? By Martin Buchheit
- Most research I publish will be wrong. And I’m OK with that by Mark Humphries
- Sports Discovery: The Debate on the Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio
- Sports Discovery: Thoughts on the World Congress of Science and Soccer (WCSS) 2014
Podcasts
- Irishman Abroad – Peter Breen – Media Officer for ICC & Leinster Rugby
- Pacey Performance Podcast – Mark Watts & Aiden Oakley S&C State of the Nation(s)
Business/Productivity
- The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational
- Job Interviews Are a Terrible Way to Find the Right Candidate
- The best lifehacks to help you read more, eat more vegetables, and keep your sneakers like new
- The Economist: In praise of laziness
Education
- Why schools should not teach general critical-thinking skills
- Issues with ‘I can’ statements
- Boys Who Sit Still Have a Harder Time Learning to Read
- Matt Jay: The Art of Teaching
Miscellaneous
- How Experts See What The Rest Of Us Miss
- Jonathan Safran Foer: technology is diminishing us
- Has the internet become a failed state?
- Google, democracy and the truth about internet search
- “Don’t Try”: Charles Bukowski’s Concise Philosophy of Art and Life
- ‘We’re teaching university students lies’ – An interview with Dr Jordan Peterson
- The age of outrage by Ian Hislop
- Stop Funding Hate: Free Speech Is For Everyone, Not Just For Newspaper Editors
- To beat the Trump hype, we need a return to old-fashioned political virtues by Ed Smith
- Take the time and effort to correct misinformation
- Intelligence across cultures
- Peter Boghossian on Critical Thinking, The Atheos App, and the Post-Modern Influence on Universities
