Hi Everyone,
With the direction that G**gle has been taking the last decade I no longer want people visiting my site to be tracked by that company. You can come and check out the archives for Track and Field and know that that company is no longer able to gather your data while you browse. My privacy is important to me and I am extended that importance to you and your visits to the site.
Cheers!!
Mike
Hi All,
This is a system that Paul Wright shared with me 20 years ago and I have seen it be very successful year after year with the GRCI teams. It is simple and you can have teams making very good passes in the first practice.
Feel free to use the system and if you have any feedback for me please shoot me an email.
The meets begin this week at JHSS! Looking forward to a great season for the GRCI crew. It is the biggest team we have had in my 22 years at GRCI. GO Rens GO!!
Cheers,
Coach G
Hi Everyone,
I have not posted much over the last few years for a variety of reasons. My focus in life has shifted away from optimal strength and performance training to a more holistic view of optimal living and vitality. Happy and healthy to the age 100 is something that has always been a dream of mine. I was very fortunate to find several new and exciting concepts, products and people in the last year that I will be sharing in a 2018 summary post over the next little while.
Check them out if they are interest to you.
Cheers and all the best in 2019!!
Coach G
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Here are the clips for the GPP – General Physical Preparation as well as the stretching and mobility circuits for the start of the year.
The other staple of many of the programs is the Matrix.
Have a great workout!
Cheers, G
Hi All,
A friend of mine sent me this link a few days ago and I wanted to add some of my own experience to the mix as well. In my 30+ years of coaching and teaching I have seen a trend for earlier and earlier specialization. Children 8, 9, 10 years of age are being labelled as the next phenom in a certain sport. That label can be a recipe for a very short career and also limit the level to which the child can develop.
The best thing for kids growing up is to play many sports and to be involved in as many activities as they are comfortable doing. There is a former athlete of mine who is now in the NHL and he played Volleyball, Basketball, Badminton and competed in track and field until he was 16. By the way he competed at the highest level in ALL of those sports. He also played some lacrosse in the summer. I am not advocating that every athlete needs to be as busy as this athlete was, I am pointing out that this diversity allowed him to develop more athleticism that helped to make him a better hockey player when he decided to specialize.
Mike Boyle, who is the strength coach for the Boston Red Sox, has talked about getting athletes to play many sports for years. Now this orthopaedic surgeon is confirming what many coaches have talked about for years.
http://www.cleveland.com/dman/index.ssf/2013/02/noted_surgeon_dr_james_andrews.html
Cheers,
Coach G
Hi All,
I saw this video today and it inspired me to share it with you and to comment on some of the many reasons why I love track and field. At meets it is a great time to reconnect with people I have not seen since the last season and it is a great opportunity to meet new people. I am always amazed at how helpful the track and field community is as well with the coaching of athletes from other schools as well as the sharing of equipment to help an athlete have a better experience. I also enjoy seeing the students from GRCI making friends with athletes and coaches from other schools as they go about competing and networking as the meet goes on.
It feels less competitive and more cooperative than other sports with which I have been involved. There is a real sense to me in the Region that people really want to see Track & Field excel regardless of who gets the credit. One of may favourite parts of the high school season are the debriefing sessions that I am part of with Gary Wilson, Jeff Anderson and Scott Curtis after the meets where we discuss what went well, what didn’t and what we can do to make it better. The progress that has been made for T&F in the Region has been greatly influenced by these sessions where notes are sometimes taken on an old file folder or scrap piece of paper. The synergy that we share it a true social networking that helps to make the experience better for the talented student athletes that we have in the area. Scary to think that amongst the four of us in the timing hut that there is over 160 years of T&F experience.
This is just one aspect of the social networking that takes place during the track and field season that I really enjoy. I love the face to face discussions that take place throughout the day. I could branch off into talking about the WCSSAA/D8 committee but I will hold off for now as I am out of gas for now.
Enjoy your true social networking and best of luck during the rest of the season!!
Cheers,
Coach G
