As a coach, I never tire of learning. I invest money and time to broaden my skills, increase the number of tools in my bag and put myself in situations where I am being challenged to be a better coach. I subscribe to several websites and coaches that are aligned with my values and integrity. I also like to share some of these insights and articles as I feel the responsibility of the S&C coach is put the athlete first, not your ego. So if you can benefit from any of my postings, then I have helped you succeed, and in turn, I have succeeded. For those that know me, they will attest that I am approachable and very willing to share information. As a consequence, I have friends, who are S&C coaches themselves, that I respect and learn from every time we have a catch up or a discussion on any matters S&C. I dont ever profess to know it all, in fact, the more I learn, the less I know! Thats why like minded S&C coaches need to pool their thoughts, talents and knowledge to help our developing athletes onto the path to correct movement patterns, progressive strength training and the inspire their athletes to be the best they can be. Coach CJ Easter (coachcjeaster/) has written a very clear and concise article on stages of Speed Development, which is actually my mantra for method of developing the athletes I work with. Many people believe that speed is in the genes. And on the most part, they are correct, however, there are too many instances of junior athletes never reaching that ceiling point and are lost to other endeavours as they feel they are no good at sport. As most of us agree, speed is a skill that needs to be practised within the correct development plans. The stages that need to be addressed are; 1 Movement 2 Strength 3 Power 4 Speed Stage 1: Movement Movement is the foundation of speed development. The purpose of movement training is to develop total body coordination and an understanding of the how to put the body in the proper positions to maximize leverage and force production. Within movement development, there are 4 stages that an athlete progresses through: 1) Unconscious incompetence This is the “they don’t know that they don’t know” stage. In this stage, an athlete cannot perform a movement and does not know that they cannot perform the movement or has not really been coached on how to perform it correctly. 2) Conscious incompetence In this stage, athletes cannot perform a movement, but are aware of that and are making progress towards being able to perform a movement. An athlete may say “it just doesn’t feel right” to describe how they feel when attempting a movement. 3) Conscious competence In this stage, an athlete can perform when they are focused on it in a controlled environment with minimal coaching. This stage is similar to being good at a specific drill in practice. 4) Unconscious competence In the final stage, an athlete can perform a movement without thinking in an uncontrolled environment. At this point, the training has become a reaction. This is the ultimate goal of movement training, the transference of a movement skill to the actual game. The stage, that I have several of my athletes at (my junior athletes) fall into the second stage, where we have taught them the basic functional movement, but it isnt firmly ingrained as yet. This is where my job, as their coach, is to create an environment where they are successful at their movements, which creates confidence in their movement, which in turn, gives the athlete the feeling of success. This has proven to be a very successful method with my athletes. Stage 2 will come later, so in the mean time train smart!
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 22:47:24 +0000
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