by Dave Gleason   Setting short, medium and long term goals is the foundation for any action plan.  Creating and attaining any goal is a process.   In the context of goal setting for young athletes, often a trainer or coach will direct the question of desired goal(s) by giving away the answers.  A [...] read more

Young Athletes Goals and Dreams Dreams and ambition are great.   But how many times have you established a goal for yourself and not completed it?   I’ll bet that number totals into the dozens.   You start the process, get ultra-excited, amped-up beyond belief…   … And then…   Nothing.   You kind of [...] read more

    Young Athletes Goals   The Pygmalion Effect can either elevate a workers productivity or entirely undermine it. For instance, workers who receive continuous verbal praise for their efforts, while being supported by non-verbal means, will aspire and ascend to even more productivity. In contrast, if a worker receives less praise or even communication [...] read more

    Youth Sports Conditioning Principles Soccer is no different than any other sport at the youth level – and I am not inferring that anyone suggested otherwise – but every youth coach of every sport, seems to think that the technical nuances of their sport are some how more intricate or specialized than the [...] read more

Youth sports training with kids You could open an interesting debate with respect to teaching sporting skills to kids.   I did last week during a presentation I gave to area basketball coaches.   Some trainers and coaches have decided that the skills required to achieve a certain task should be taught from the beginning. [...] read more