College recruitment is often the rationale for teenagers. For most who aren’t a top player in their area, it makes no sense whatsoever.

Any other HS strength coaches somehow have 50% of their athletes place top 10 in nationals this summer?

3 variations of goal line. Each with different problems to solve.

In athletics, the more kids learn without being taught, the better the experience.

An 8th grade girl called me “petit” today, not trying to talk trash or be mean. I’m not sure I will ever emotionally recover.

Kids struggle to organize? Get the parents to play Joy of the People

USA Team Handball here we come!

Average High school body part splits Day 1: Chest Day 2: Bis and tris Day 3: Back Day 4: Abs + bench + curls Next week.... legs for sure but we'll see how they are feeling.

Any s+c coaches have recent equipment purchases they love?

Steph!!!!! USA USA USA!

Todays game isn’t helping those who push the narrative about USA basketball is just athletes while Europe is skill and shooting.

These twitter threads posts from biohack bot accounts are making this app pretty much unbearable.

Play brings real advantages over time. The catch, however, is that these benefits come about precisely because those engaged in play—be they children or adults--Education or soccer—aren't targeting these outcomes. If we try to get better--we don't...but if we let go... "The

"There are no solutions only trade-offs. " Watching my kids organized soccer practice last night. Very instructional, and very structured. The trade-off is autonomy, creativity, and often joy. I would rather them roll a ball out and play the entire time.

There’s a interesting perception in youth sports that the further you travel, the better you are. Must mean you are finding better competition. Absolute non-sense.

It's wild to see how comfortable he is jumping off 1 or 2 as high as he does in traffic.

Go read Brian McCormick's recent newsletter. Great insights on cliche things like hustle and hard work and how to define that for winning.

Seeing the Landon Donovan quote everywhere. How do you develop players without focusing on winning? Free play. Checks all the boxes. When you bring in adults to shortcut the learning process it brings the focus to improvement & winning. Exploration usually means no adults.

My crazy ass useless goal is to dunk at age 40 at 5’9”. It means I need a 36” vert and a good alleyoop pass. I recently touched 10’4” so I have a shot at this. I turn 40 in about 15 months. Can I get some haters in my comments so I can say that I proved all the haters wrong?

In my demographic of HS athletes, I have to build a tolerance to distance for 10-yard flys or we inevitably get quad strains in the first 2-4 weeks. We start 5-10 yrd run-ins and work our way back. Does anyone else have this issue?