Believe it or not, I'm still around. Yes, it's hard to believe. If you occasionally visit this website, which by all traffic metrics and Google Analytics doesn't reflect it, you may notice a huge fall off of quality blog posts being published here. The

> "I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way." - Lee Iacocca Part of my responsibility is adding the highly skilled and incredibly talented coaches as a supportive staff to our high performance training department. It is always a never-ending task of

At the beginning, the middle, and the end; it's about the athlete and the progress made. Behind that athlete is the person that drives their athletic prowess. Coaching is a process and an art. Although strength & conditioning is deeply routed in science, the act of coaching should

One of my favorite web articles is by Lifehacker [http://www.Lifehacker.com] titled "How I Work". It takes CEOs technology startup and documents the methods of how they produce their best work. In the spirit of that article series, I'm presenting the "How I

It is too easy in this profession to get caught up with chasing the next perfect program or spending hours critiquing every rep scheme, volume base, or periodization model. As strength and conditioning coaches, we all are guility of this. I'm advising you to trust your gut and

One of the most important lessons my Father taught was how important even the smallest detail was. I feel that is something many people has lost sight of now days. Call it the modernization of self-correcting technology, simple laziness, or any other combination of generational factors or ineptitude; needless to

As a leader, it is vital to identify others members within your organization that will help support your cause and leadership efforts. Identification of other potential leaders is a valuable task which will allow you to best utilize your time and efforts supporting the environment and culture you are trying

When I was first starting my career in Strength & Conditioning, a mentor of mine once told me, > "What you see is what you coach". He couldn't be anymore correct. Let me explain. You Create Your Environment You set the tone, the high-expectations, and the

Thanks for staying with me for this long. I've made a decision to move my hosting services away from my previous one and streamlined the backside of this blog to make for more efficient strength & conditioning writing. This was a tedious process which required me to migrate

Introduction Michael Fertik wrote an excellent article titled “Managing Employees in Their Twenties” [http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jan2011/ca20110121_067889.htm] in the Harvard Business Review last month.  What I enjoyed about Michael’s blog post was the simple to read tips about what it is that keeps

> “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Zen Master Shunryo Suzuki * Be Present Don’t get caught up in wondering what should come next or the grand illusion that there is a sequence of events that one should follow.

I love this time of the year because it's a great opportunity to meet up with the best strength coaches in the nation to learn and spread information. As I'm driving in from Wichita, pondering on my three hour drive, I'm amazed at how