So the previous Post, APA Philosophy 5 on Exercise Selection started to build up a framework for an hour in the Gym with a young athlete, but it didn’t go into any detail on how this session might be manipulated to suit the stage of development of the athlete, their goals and the phase of the […]
If you have followed my previous posts about the different Philosophies of Training that are out there, I think I was pretty clear in making the point that APA doesn’t subscribe to one particular method of training to the exclusion of others. Rather we borrow from all of the different methods that are out there. […]
What is APA all about? So I am going to carry on with a few more APA Coaching Philosophy bullet points from my Coaching Mandate. Basically this is a document I can give any new coach to bring them up to speed on where I stand with pretty much everything related to Strength & […]
No philosophy would be complete without some sort of position on planning. I use this term rather than Periodisation as this immediately associates itself with complex terminology and Eastern European practices not relevant to most trainers needs. Trust me I have read these documents and they can take you too far away from the basic […]
I am hoping to share my philosophy over the coming weeks and months and it seems apt to give a little background first on my coaching experience and influences to date. The biography on the website pretty much sums up my actual coaching experience but what it won’t tell you are all the countless coaches […]
Before I get into the Training Philosophy that underpins the design of all programmes that APA coaches write I think we need to spend some time talking about the Mindset that is required of a champion athlete. It’s an old cliche but a bad programme that is followed consistently is probably better than a great […]
I started a company In June 2011 I officially registered as a limited company, hence the birth of ‘Athletic Performance Academy.’ I felt that by operating as a company I could offer my services to a larger sector of the market and expand out of Tennis BUT importantly I wanted retain the credibility and reputation I […]
5. How would you deal with a (tennis) coach who believes their player should not be lifting heavy weights. It will slow them down and could injure their back. Gil actually answered this question in the context of Football (soccer) because this is a sport where he has experienced this […]
So now that you have hopefully read the Lessons posts 1, 2 and 3 (if you haven’t check out the previous posts!!) I can finally get to giving you Gil’s responses to the group’s questions: 1. How much weight should a tennis player lift? Another way of asking this […]
So I am almost ready to get stuck into answering some of the questions posed by the group but just before I do , one last bit of theory! Gil also showed us two other graphs; graphs which most S&C coaches worth their salt should be familiar with! The first comes from a famous study by Hakkinen […]
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