People think that when it comes to running faster or performing better, it’s about the workouts. How far did you run; how much did you lift? Those are the details. When it comes to performance, it’s all about your foundation. THREAD on the foundation of performance 👇👇

Never forget it is not about facilities and equipment, it is always about people. Coach the person not the sport! Champions can be produced anywhere by coaches who care and invest in the athletes.

Decision Making 🧠 👀

Medicine Ball Throws . . Some considerations and ways to go about modifying the stance, complexity, and execution styles of medicine ball throws. THREAD//

Trap bar loaded jumps versus Olympic weightlifting: A brain dump/rant 🧠/🗣️

✅ Da igual el Deporte 🤾🚴‍♂️🏊. ✅ Da igual la instalación 🏟️. ✅ Da igual el Material 🏀🏈⚾🏐. ✅ Da igual el sexo 🚸. ✅ Da igual el presupuesto 💰. 🏗️ La COORDINACIÓN es la base. 🧠 Variedad de estímulos. 💡 Que cada sesión sea diferente.

Some really good ideas in this video

What a hectic but exciting few weeks between getting married and recently securing a new job! Enjoyed the last few years working with ulster GAA but now I move on and look forward to my new role as senior athletic performance coach with Donegal.# S&C #performance#GAA

That’s how you win a turnover 😳😳

Strength training technical models… Thinking like an S&C coach, not an exercise instructor for strength sports A lesson 👇

Great thread on comparing planning to playing poker.

Instilling confidence and belief at his young teammate..Brilliant 💪🏻👍🏻

If you want to perform better, you've got to try harder. That's a central tenants of western culture. If you're stuck, the problem must be a lack of grind, motivation to push forward, or caring. However, trying harder is often the problem. We need to let go to move forward:

All coaches need to learn the nuance of fatigue. Not understanding the very subtle gradations and types of fatigue is partially why we get coaches who do dumb conditioning workouts Exhaustion isn't the goal of training. It's to apply a stimulus in a specific direction to adapt:

What decisions go into speed profiling? How can you split guys into buckets to better individualise their training prescription? I would say the best way is to be informed by both your coaching 👁 & what the 📊 says Hit the basics but have groups with key areas of focus

For any coaches working with underage teams for the season ahead.A workshop focusing on integrating athletic development into your coaching sessions.#GAA #LTAD

New environment,New journey 💪🏻#coacheducation #athleticdev #GPO #coaching

Great turnout for our Games Based approach workshop in cloghan @monaghangaa. Plenty of fun games and activities that our coaches can implement to their underage teams.#neverstoplearning #LTAD #youthdevelopment #MonaghanGAAcoachingandgames

I have heard the phrase “ be comfortable with being uncomfortable” quite a lot recently. It’s almost become a catchphrase for modern coaching. I wanted to do a thread about this; it's not always helpful to have this approach 🧵👇

🚨 Calling all schools' rugby coaches! Our Athletic Development team are holding a session at Kingspan Stadium to talk through how they tailor a player's workload during the season 🏉 Check out the workshop info below 👇