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Soft Skills: High impact – Online Course

How to coach swimming and help your athletes realize their promise and potential. How to inspire your athletes to do the Content of their work with the Intent with which it was written, and as a result have a far more effective coaching environment.

In each lesson you’ll have the opportunity to watch professionally produced video, then read an article or download printable charts and diagrams to help you reflect on your learning.

Your Performance Is My Business

International sports coaching expert, Wayne Goldsmith has influenced the coaching, thinking and teaching of some of the world’s leading athletes, coaches and teams. CLIENTS His client list includes professional sports teams, Olympic athletes and coaches all over the world. EXPERIENCE With over 30 years experience working with some of the […]

Performance Science and Why it’s time has come.

 

“In short science has its limitations. Western science is characterised by
reductionist principles; but we reach a point at which the reduction becomes
disassociated from the phenomena it is trying to explain” P.Jones 1998

It’s time.

It’s time for the Sports science industry to seriously change the way we do business.

It’s time we let go of  the outdated, simplistic single cause / single effect model of research and embraced a genuine integrated, multi disciplinary approach to solving performance problems.

It’s time for Performance Science to come of age. (more…)

Can you achieve the same or better performance results with reduced training volume? More on More with Less.

One of the greatest challenges many traditional Olympic sports face is how to achieve the same or better results in less time. Kids and parents have very little spare time and for sports like swimming, track and field, rowing, diving, gymnastics, tennis and cycling, finding ways to optimise athletic development and enhance sports performance efficiently: i.e. achieving better performances in less time has become an increasingly important aspect of coaching around the world.

End of Season Performance Reviews – Making a difference or Making a mistake

Spring is the season of re-newal, re-birth and re-generation.

And for many Australian sports – AFL, Rugby League, Netball and Rugby – spring is also the season of the Performance Re-view.

That time when players, coaches, management and staff sit down together and try to work out what went wrong, what went right and how to do it better next time around.

How do you make certain your end of season Performance Review makes  real difference to next season and is not a waste of time, energy and money?

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The Performance Clock and Coaching

The aim is to create a sustainably successful high performance environment and to always be competitive. Winning once can be a matter of luck. Sustainable competitiveness comes from good planning, good management, vision, creativity, innovation and hard work.
The Performance Clock explains why athletes, coaches and teams fail to sustain competitiveness and how you can avoid the traps and pitfalls inherent in the cycle of sports performance.