I attended a coaching course early in my coaching career and one of the first questions I was asked was "what is your coaching...

As a coach, what is our role? Pretty straight forward question, I would think. Or is it? Most of us keep ourselves quite busy with...

Creating new stimulus in your training environment is an under estimated and under utilised skill. There is a genuine need for regular...

When I ran my first marathon, I felt a hurt I had never experienced before but there was a perverse pleasure in that pain because I knew...

A players ability to deal with feedback both positive and critical can have an enormous impact on their performance not only in the...

If you could picture yourself as an elite athlete about to perform at a World Championship event, what would be three traits you...

Is training a specific skill a form of mindfulness?          ABSOLUTELY. So what? It's a fair question to ask. So what if skill...

Think of the best coach you ever had. What was it that made them so good? Now, if you are a member of a teams staff could you explain...

As a national sporting representative, athletes get exposed to greater detail in their coaching, more often than not a higher level coach...

Excuses are the seeds of regret. Every time we use an excuse to condone a poor behaviour such as blowing off a session we should be...

We all get it at some stage? That little voice in our mind that starts a conversation with something like "I'll never get it" or "I can't...

Identify what needs to be done If we are going to do extras then we need to know exactly what extras we need to do. It’s no good a full...

In my younger years I would burn the candle at both ends, grab all that life threw at me.  Nights out, adventures and holiday away with...

Have you ever wondered how you can start one thought and seconds later be on a completely different train of thought? You could be...

I would have to say Autumn is one of my favourite times of year.  The days are still warm and the evenings are still balmy. The winds...

If you do nothing more than just move this week, then its a good week.  I'm constantly reminded from my own body, that sitting for long...

How many of us sit in our comfort zone because stepping out of it would mean facing the possibility of failure? At what stage of our life...

How do we really look at expectation? With the prevalence of mental health issues surrounding anxiety and stress these days it would make...

We need to question if we are becoming a society of victims.

Have you ever considered, when reading the motivational pieces of writing that focus on all things positive spread across social media,...