Mind-Body Training
Wanting Great Things
My family just returned from a vacation on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where we got a close-up of people trying to get the most out of their time away.
Whether it was a walk on the beach or para-sailing over the Sound, these vacationers wanted great things out of their week by the ocean.
This idea carries [...]
Results or Reasons?
We just finished a TotalGamePlan volleyball camp with 16 young women at the Verona Community Center in Verona, N.J.
The week went well, except for one drill. No one had any energy. No one seemed to want to improve. So not wanting to have a losing drill, the coaches made it a learning drill.
Calling the girls [...]
In it or into it?
Do you know someone who is totally into what they’re doing? Tell us about it!
Here’s why we want to know. The difference between in and into is the difference between greatness and mediocrity.
You can be in school or into school. You can be in a sport or into a sport. You can be in a [...]
Initial Ability and Final Ability
Sorry to have neglected the blog for so long. Various book projects are taking up time and energy. But today the message is so important that I had to get it out there. Think of it as: How to grow the next Phil Mickelson.
Jeff Beer is the golf coach at the Montclair Kimberley Academy in [...]
A Strong Warmup
The other day, with practice only about 10 minutes old, I spoke to some players about their work habits. One of the players protested.
“But that was only warmup,” she said.
Only warmup?
What could be more important than a strong warmup?
Warmup sets the tone — physically, mentally and emotionally — for what will come in the rest [...]
Dancing With the Stars
In watching “Dancing With the Stars,” did you ever wonder what it would be like to be on the show?
You’re closer than you think.
In a very real sense, everyone is living a version of “Dancing With the Stars.”
Just consider the format. The dancers get a certain period of time — one week — to prepare. [...]
What Is Possible?
Today posting resumes after a hiatus to finish a book I wrote with Gary Pritchard, called “10 Things Great Coaches Know.”
It turns out that Opening Day of the baseball season, the final game of the NCAA basketball tourney and an episode of “Dancing With the Stars” all intersected.
And what unites these three apparently unrelated events? [...]
Positive Data
Last weekend’s nor’easter did more than disrupt life on the ground. It did its best to foul up air travel, destroying equipment that measures wind speed and direction at New York’s Kennedy Airport.
“”Wind-measuring equipment just shattered on the field,” a controller advised a pilot as the storm raged. Controllers wound up getting phone updates from [...]
Measure and Post
Expect the restaurant kitchens in New York City to get cleaner.
That’s because the city’s Board of Health has voted to publicly post the cleanliness grades where customers can see them.
These grades have previously been available online or at the Department of Health and Mental Hygeine. But now they must be posted in the window or [...]
Structured Play
Now there is a coach for recess.
There’s no more spontaneous running around, or skipping, or games of tag, or just looking at the sky.
According to the New York Times, a growing number of schools are putting more structure into recess to “curb bullying and behavior problems, foster social skills and address concerns over obesity.”
Though [...]
