Archive for August 2013
Outside the Comfort Zone: What I learned from hanging out with a bunch of Aussies
At the world championships in Moscow, I got a unique opportunity to spend a couple weeks understanding the Australian system of training and development. As a coach, it was an incredible learning experience, not only because I was learning different ways of attacking the same problem, but instead because it offered a different viewpoint. It…
Read MoreTraining to Failure: Good idea or bad?
One of the reasons I recommend grad school, is not for the classes, but for the informal theorizing sessions you have with classmates and professors. Even several years after being out of school, I still look back to some of those informal after class sessions and realize how those talks were when we would get…
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