Physical Education Update

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Some of the National Football League games this weekend were conducted in blizzard conditions – it was exceptionally enjoyable watching them from in front of my fireplace on my LazyBoy chair. To tell you the truth, I’ve never been able to figure out the motivation of these officials.

Motivation

Player Development Project

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

What is it that motivates them to turn up to training, sometimes three or more times a week, no matter what the conditions? In this article, resident positive psychology expert Lara Mossman looks at the ways in which coaches can empower players to become self-motivated. Some may not want to be there at all.

Motivation

PLT4M

JANUARY 18, 2023

Strength & conditioning classes are becoming a popular physical education offering. We take stories and insights from schools across the country to highlight 7 keys to successful strength and conditioning classes. Adam Hughes, high school PE teacher and strength coach, works with students in the wieght room during class time.

Strength

PLT4M

JANUARY 12, 2024

A well-structured strength and conditioning program can enhance strength, power, speed, agility, capacity, and endurance while reducing the risk of injury. This is where strength and conditioning templates come into play. For years, coaches managed their program design with Excel templates. Here are some advantages: 1.

Strength

PLT4M

JUNE 14, 2023

Strength and conditioning software is a powerful tool. In this article, we will discuss the benefits of strength and conditioning software for high schools and how to choose the right software for your needs. Understanding how each business operates can help you find the right strength and conditioning software for your use case.

High School

First Beat

AUGUST 21, 2023

Strength and conditioning staff at one of Firstbeat’s customers emphasized that it’s all about building a culture within the building and getting your athletes to trust what you are asking them to do. By devising strategies to enhance these three areas you will have athletes who are motivated and buy-in to your monitoring strategy.

Motivation

PLT4M

MARCH 15, 2023

What is the right workout app for high school strength and conditioning? We break down the 5 keys for a high school strength and conditioning app. In addition, we highlight schools across the country using a strength and conditioning app for PE and athletics. A high school student uses the PLT4M app during his workout.

High School

Better Coaching

JANUARY 22, 2017

Youth sports coaches are the men and women who volunteer their time to teach our youth the many life lessons we can acquire through sports. However, my experience as a youth sports coach has allowed me to observe many coaches conducting practices, games, post-game speeches, and clinics. Really, coach? Wasting Time.

Coaching

First Beat

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This break period allows teams to build their strategies, work with their conditioning elements and enables the players not playing for their national teams to recover from their demanding schedule. From a conditioning point of view the question arises: What should the teams and players consider to gain maximum benefits from the break?

Conditioning

Stanford Childrens

AUGUST 9, 2023

I was there to show that I was motivated and to keep up with my team,” Aiden says. The Children’s Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center provides the latest treatments for a wide range of orthopedic and musculoskeletal conditions—from simple to highly complex. My mom and dad helped me stay motivated.” I would do it after school.

Biomechanics

Sports Coaching FAQ

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A challenge faced by novice and experienced sports coaches alike is obtaining and retaining the attention of the kids being coached. If a coach can get an athlete’s attention effectively then the information being communicated is more likely to be understood, retained, and acted upon and the player is more likely to progress.

Coaching

Stanford Childrens

MAY 7, 2024

Her coach and her mother ran beside her. My soccer coaches called me ‘slow bug.’ They suggested I join cross-country the summer before my freshman year to become better conditioned. Medha has a positive attitude, and she is very self-motivated. “With 600 meters to go, I collapsed from unbearable pain.”

High School

Better Coaching

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In today’s competitive sports environment, parents, coaches, and young athletes are increasingly pressured to focus on one sport from an early age. This can lead to conditions such as tendinitis, stress fractures, and joint degeneration at an age when young bodies are still developing.

Sports

PLT4M

JULY 31, 2023

Feedback and Motivation: Regular feedback on their progress can motivate students to continue working hard and improve their performance. Positive reinforcement for their achievements and constructive feedback on areas of improvement can boost students’ confidence and motivation.

Physical Education

MSU

APRIL 12, 2019

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Sport Coaching and Leadership Online Programs. Perhaps the most important goal for coaches is developing the movement skills of their athletes. Let’s say you’re a lacrosse coach teaching a player to shoot the ball on goal. How do you get the player to extend their arms more?

Coaching

PLT4M

AUGUST 25, 2023

Five years ago, when Paul Russick took over as head football coach at Honesdale High School in Pennsylvania, he had aspirations for success on and off the football field. And like many football coaches, he looked at the weight room as an opportunity to help build the program. More teams and coaches carve out time during the season.

Middle School

PLT4M

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The purpose of this collaboration is to support physical education teachers and coaches to provide better access and inclusion for students with disabilities. . With a blend of curriculum and technology, PLT4M empowers students to be engaged and motivated within their personal fitness journey. Ready to Learn More? . Learn MORE.

Motor Skills

AASP

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We discussed how language used with children can impact their mindset and motivation.</p> </p> <p>So, how can parents impact their athletes’ motivation? Specifically, offering genuine feedback without imposing conditions or asserting control is critical. </h6>

Motivation

Learning Through Sport

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

From a Spectrum of Teaching Styles lens, Brendan SueSee and I have analysed game-based practice as the Game Sense approach (see here ) and constraints-led approach (see here ) as a cluster of teaching styles and not a (singular) teaching/coaching style.

Teaching

Stanford Childrens

MARCH 8, 2023

It became my motivation and determination to do my part so that no other Black nurse would have to repeat the vicious cycle of having to be better, work harder, and sacrifice more than my white counterparts just to be treated equally. For example, we think about how violence, poverty, and unstable living conditions impact health equity.

Health

Better Coaching

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Whether you're a coach, player, or parent, it's crucial to recognize that everything leading up to varsity competition should be considered part of a grand design to build stronger, smarter, and more competitive athletes. Coaches at the youth level play a vital role in this development. And they sure ensure the sport is FUN!

High School

Informed Practitioner in Sport

JANUARY 29, 2021

Just as there is an ongoing divide between academic research and applied practice, achieving alignment between support staff in different disciplines and the coaching staff (not to mention the athlete as the ‘end user’) often proves to be elusive. Coaches and athletes are solely accountable for performance in the arena.

Achievement

Informed Practitioner in Sport

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

I am also excluding clear cases of misconduct that unamibiguously violate professional ethics and the boundaries of the athlete-coach relationship - for instance, sexually inappropriate behaviour or physical abuse. However, this does not necessarily imply any wrongdoing on the part of the coach.

Sports

Informed Practitioner in Sport

MARCH 5, 2021

Beyond planning and programming, this also needs to be reflected in our words and our actions as coaches. On the question of how do we nurture talent, during the journey our role is to create the conditions to ignite, nurture and protect the flame. Being labelled as talented or special harms motivation and impedes growth.

Motivation

FACTS Management

MAY 21, 2024

Both processes begin with setting clear, measurable goals that provide direction and motivation. They undergo daily routines that involve physical training, nutritional plans, and mental conditioning. Coaching and Mentorship Athletes work closely with coaches who provide feedback, devise training plans, and offer emotional support.

Education

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Athletes and Coaches Benefit From Unified Strength and Conditioning 11 Mar 2022 Read more. Teachers should create motivating environments that accommodate diverse learning abilities. Autonomy, relatedness , and competence are the three psychological needs that make a person more self-determined (Ryan & Deci, 2000).

Assessment

First Beat

MAY 4, 2022

For me as a coach it is very important to support my players, particularly in strength and conditioning,” says head coach Thomas Luchner. “It Data-driven Coaching. The coaches focus on four key metrics: Training Effect , TRIMP , Training Status, and ACWR. Performance Monitoring Creates Opportunities.

Sports

The Sporting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

All of the sudden, "just skipping one workout" becomes something like increasing your risk of all these negative conditions and not being able to play with your children/grandchildren. Matt Claes is the head coach and founder of Weight Loss Made Practical - A personal coaching company that helps busy people lose weight and keep it off.

Fitness

Informed Practitioner in Sport

MARCH 19, 2021

Leaders, coaches and practitioners who aspire to excellence typically recognise the imperative for life-long learning. In some cases there are clear discrepancies and the version we are taught does not always hold up when exposed to real-world conditions. what we see under live conditions with real humans).

Academics

Informed Practitioner in Sport

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

sprinting) exceeded 9 m per session’ – Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research EXPLAINING THIS PHENOMENON… Whilst what is quoted above might have surprised some readers, the explanation that there was some sort of media blackout over this period nevertheless seems a bit implausible. times higher when very high–velocity running (i.e.

Strength

Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Affective – the argument that focussing on the positive affect of movement will motivate continued participation. Kretchmar (2000b) indicated that p hysical educators (sport teachers and sport coaches) cannot 'teach' meaningful movement any more so than a sport coach can force a person to play a sport. Sport as understood.

Teaching

Informed Practitioner in Sport

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This is what creates the conditions for ideas to evolve. Beyond protecting status, another more simple motivation for individuals and institutions is simply sparing themselves the embarrassment of having the flaws in their teachings and writings exposed. Naysayers are not always helpful or motivated by a desire to help the collective.

Motivation

PLT4M

APRIL 23, 2024

The best treadmill workouts motivate and inspire beginners to advanced runners through fun and challenging running workouts. Students practice form, technique, and strategy throughout workouts to build confidence, comfort, and conditioning when running. Each tread workout is a full follow-along workout. And that can get boring!

Endurance

Informed Practitioner in Sport

APRIL 1, 2021

As the idea gathers steam, the growing uptake seems as much motivated by anxiety and the sense that ‘everybody else seems to be into this, so perhaps I should be too’. Even once the wave has subsided, these events leave in their wake a detritus of zombie ideas that we as leaders, coaches and practitioners must navigate thereafter.

Motivation

Informed Practitioner in Sport

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Most coaches and practitioners aspire to attaining real expertise and as most will testify this journey and the real learning begins only once we leave formal education and enter the profession. It is similarly crucial that we understand the true purpose of teaching and the role of teachers, master coaches and mentors in guiding the process.

Coaching

Informed Practitioner in Sport

MAY 30, 2022

Parents are naturally highly motivated to find the programme that provides most optimal conditions to allow their child’s talents to flourish. As a jaded youth soccer coach recently told me, young athletes are a renewable revenue source – each year, there is another cohort of unsuspecting kids (and parents) to exploit.

Private Schools

Informed Practitioner in Sport

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

SCOUTING TALENT… Given the complexity of talent and the elements that are hard to quantify or capture objectively, it follows we must continue to rely on the subjective evaluation of an experienced coach. A coach’s eye for talent can be extraordinary. Equally, our subjective perceptions are prone to cognitive bias.

Physiology