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Beginning to Coach with Power in Mind - a guest post by Joe Mills & Jim Denison
In the last post, Professors Denison and Mills went into detail on how power works in the social world - or ‘real’ world - what power is, and how this power can affect our coaching. Hopefully the last...
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A Coaches' Guide to Strength Development Part IX: Eccentric Strength Training...
photo courtesy justynwarner.comEccentric Training – An Introduction by Matt Jordan, PhD:If we were discussing a personality trait, ‘eccentric’ would characterize an odd or strange individual. Some...
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A Coaches' Guide to Strength Development Part X: Eccentric Training Part II -...
photo courtesy justynwarner.com As discussed in Part I, eccentric (ECC) training has had a relatively comprehensive scientific backing behind it already and from what I have seen in social media in the...
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Why?
People ask me why I haven’t posted for a while. They assume I’m too busy. But that’s not it. Too busy should never be a justification. Busy is a decision. Busy is a cop-out. “Too” busy just means...
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Best-of 2017 Media Picks
Thanks for stopping by. If you missed my Best of 2016, you can go back and check it out here:https://altis.world/articles/coach-stuart-mcmillans-best-books-of-2016/(I also wrote Best-ofs in previous...
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UNLOAD: Week 1; Jan 1-7 2018
I’ll be honest - I’m not entirely sure how this will go, and what format it will take. Most-likely, it will be a hodgepodge of my thoughts to myself, outlines of what I have read, or listened to,...
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UNLOAD Week 2: Jan 8-14 2018
The Visionless Society- Chris HedgesFeaturing an interview with Ralph Nader. Some highlights:“There is no democracy … the only democracy left in this country is they don’t haul you to jail for...
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UNLOAD week 3: Jan 15-21
Pre-race Coaching- What should be said?I’l discuss this in the upcoming weeks…"Hard-work is overrated, Judgement is underrated. Which direction you go is more important than the force you apply." -...
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Very Stable Genius: week 4; Jan 22-28 2018
When it comes to program design, there is no blueprint that we can simply follow that works in the ‘building of all athletes’. Athletes are not buildings, or meals - where we can just follow a recipe,...
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Very Stable Genius Week 5: January 29 - February 4, 2018
THE FIRST WORD“You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits."—Bhagavad Gita…PERFORMANCE THERAPYI’m starting to put together an outline for the Digital version of the ALTIS Performance...
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Very Stable Genius Week 6: February 5-11 2018
THE FIRST WORD“I think generally people’s thinking process is too bound by convention or analogy to prior experiences. It’s rare that people try to think of something on a first principles basis....
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Relatively Stable Genius Week 7: February 12-18 2018
THE FIRST WORD“When you grow up, you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice...
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Relatively Stable Idiot Week 8: February 19-25 2018
THE FIRST WORD“the leaves of a tree delight us more than the roots" - Tolstoy(Everything is clickbait)Choices“The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices probably tell us more...
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Semi-Stable Idiot Week 9: February 26 - March 4 2018
THE FIRST WORD“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius…RANDOM RAMBLINGSMy mind is still on ‘Olympic things’.I’ve now coached at 8. I think I was somewhat excited at...
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Not Very Stable Genius Week 10: March 5-11 2018
THE FIRST WORDThe ultimate in security is the admission of insecurity…TWEET OF THE WEEK:Time and attention are not the same.Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day but varying levels of attention -...
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Super Stable Genius Week 11: March 12-18 2018
FIRST WORD“Think about your preparation, not theirs; your execution, not theirs; your effort and desire, not theirs. Don't worry about them. Let them worry about you.” - Kyle Snyder, 2016 Olympic...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 12: March 19-25 2018
THE FIRST WORDThe two things most opposed to good planning are ‘haste and anger’ - Diodotus…RANDOM RAMBLINGSCan we please stop saying that ’speed is a skill’?It most definitely is not.The specific...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 13: March 26 - April 4 2018
THE FIRST WORD“I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away.” - 2016 US Presidential Candidate, and current US Secretary of Housing and...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 14: April 2 - 8 2018
THE FIRST WORDBollocks to Passion discipline purpose patienceThese are far more important that passion…RANDOM RAMBLINGSWhen your ideas get stolen- Seth GodinA few meditations:Good for you. Isn't it...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 15: April 12-18 2018
THE FIRST WORD “Interest in local news, world news, politics, and media of any sort is a waste of a human lifeNever in the history of civilization has man had more opportunities to squander his...
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