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S&C coaches: how do you evaluate your program? How do you balance subjective feedback with objective results? Do you establish measures of success with athletes and coaches at the onset? If so, what are they? No right answers, just different practices.

Parents (and 4-year olds on Twitter): training wheels or strider?

Reading Range by David Epstein and can’t help but draw parallels between the “interleaving” method of learning & agility training. Learning under varied conditions provides both short-term failures and long-term retention. How do you best promote a struggle to reinforce leaning?

Often the most creative advances come from cross-disciplinary idea sharing. The microdosing that’s now popular in S&C has its origins in drug administration. What other innovative products or processes were fueled from knowledge in a different domain?

To all current and former interns out there: what’s been your best learning experience? Only setting up hurdles, putting away weights, and cleaning equipment helps us but does it help you? And helping you does help us. A learning culture is the tide that lifts all boats.

S&C Coaches: what creative scheduling solutions have you implemented at college? I’ve run systems that have employed entirely open workouts that started at a specific time and anyone could come to, as well as the standard team lifts. Both situations had one facility. Pros & Cons?

What are important VBT questions that you’d be interested in seeing analyzed in an applied sports research setting? We’re looking to write some white papers in the coming year and want to help the industry.

Brought my 4-year old to work yesterday. Cons: wicket set-up is challenging with him around. Pros: an hour in he said “Dad, your work is awesome.” Wickets can wait. Sorry Ken Clark, PhD.

I’ve grown to appreciate the value of self and cultural awareness. Being humble and attentive to your blind spots, and then being motivated to act on them, is a rare skill. What questions do you ask yourself to help be more attentive? Ask others to get them to be more aware?

Story telling can enhance engagement, accelerate learning, and foster creativity. It’s a skill that must be practiced. What coaches are your favorite story tellers?

How much of the first encounter do students remember? I bet it’s way more than we do. Heading into pre-season, coaches are getting this opportunity once again. Lay down the law and explain philosophy? Not me, I smile and tell about my family. What’s your approach?

Is it standard practice in the S&C profession (and others) to not call supervisors to inquire about candidates you then end up hiring? Sounds unprofessional and irresponsible to me.

NEW PUBLICATION Here is a 2-minute video summarizing our recent article in Sports Biomechanics on thigh reversal and thigh angular acceleration during running, with co-authors LJ Ryan, Christopher Meng, & DJ Stearne. Link to article:   tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We need to help get these athletes home! There are 11 US student athletes on this team! Let’s do whatever we can to get them home for the holidays! Field Hockey Canada Penn Wake Forest Hockey Maine Field Hockey Virginia Field Hockey Dartmouth Field Hockey Cornell Field Hockey Providence Field Hockey VCU Field Hockey Miami Field Hockey

**NEW PUBLICATION** by Christopher Meng, Cory Walts, LJ Ryan, DJ Stearne, @kenclarkspeed Link to FREE open-access article in Sports Biomechanics: doi.org/10.1080/147631… Here is 4-min. summary video (sound on🔊) about top speed sprinting kinematics in male Track & Field and Team Sport