Old Bull Training

I recently came across an editorial piece on High Intensity Training...and the best part was I couldn't stop laughing!

While I'm not the oldest, nor the most experienced coach in the industry, I certainly have been around long enough to have seen and experienced quite a few training "trends" over the last twenty years.

Professional development can be what you choose to make it. Recently I’ve been working through a text called Principles of Manual Medicine and I thought it might help some coaches out there to share some of my observations.

When I think back about my career to this point, I can comfortably say that I have spent more than a third of the last twenty or so years at "football training".  Irrespective of what specific role I have been in, that amount of time watching team training sessions gives you a clear perspective on their mechanics, how they work and the inherent physical and psychological cost imposed on the athlete.

As the number of technical and physical elements required for professional team success increases and the time to train reaches what might be considered a ceiling (let’s face it…there’s only so many hours training you can make people do in a day), the responsibility has fallen to the S&C coach to “make it work”.

Big jobs afford you a budget and the "machine that goes bing".

The trick is you've got to be good enough in the first place to get the big jobs...and that means developing the skills necessary to do the job in any circumstances.

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