The Modern Coach’s Compass Podcast

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching podcast I discuss some ideas and thoughts about selecting captains for your team.  Should your captains always be upperclassmen?

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching podcast I share some ideas and strategies to assist athletes in setting realistic expectations for the upcoming season.

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I share some ideas and thoughts about how our values help define our coaching philosophy.

In this week's bonus episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching podcast I share my thoughts about my word of the year, Gratitude.

In this week's episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching podcast I discuss ways a new or veteran coach can align their coaching philosophy to their values (what is important to them).

In this week's episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching podcast I share my thoughts on taking the temperature of your team; what it means, what is the temperature, who you talk to and why it's important.

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I discuss research based best practices that you can reflect upon and be able to incorporate within your own coaching style.

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I continue to share my research focused on coach-athlete relationships from the perspective of Olympic throwing coaches.  One of the main themes that emerged from my qualitative research study was that Olympic throwing coaches felt that is was important for a coach to have an established coaching philosophy anchored by values/be...

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I take a deeper more reflective look at my own previous life experiences when thinking about jobs and positions I've held as an educator since I graduated from college.  After 2010, life took a drastic right turn and put me on a path that at the time I couldn't appreciate until an opportunity presented itself to me last week. &n...

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I begin to introduce my current coaching research focus specific to coach-athlete relationships.  In this episode I provide the background, purpose, and why I'm focusing my efforts on the topic of coach-athlete relationships. Click here to read my latest qualitative research study that was published in January, 2022 focused on c...

In the episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I share more thoughts about coaching experiences, differences between coaching youth sports, and when experience should matter (if at all) when coaching youth athletes.

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I share my thoughts and ideas about coaching youth athletes, the differences between coaching 11 - 14 and 15 - 18 year olds, and whether experience should really matter when coaching youth athletes.

On July 27, 2022 we held our first throws coaches roundtable.  In total 7 coaches spent time discussing coaching youth throwers ages 11 - 18.  We talked about: 1. Coaching philosophy  2. Structuring practice for youth athletes 3. How coaches can engage large groups of throwers 4. Examples of games you can play in practice 5. Measuring throws in practice 6. Throwing volume in practic...

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I share more details about the 5 things you should consider when making the decision to come back and compete for your final gifted (COVID) season.

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I share talk about 5 things to think about when making the decision to come back for your gifted final (COVID) season - Part 1. 1. How many credit hours will you need to take in order to be eligible to compete 2. What is the financial burden of those courses 3. Will you have a place to compete 4. Have you discussed this with your coa...

In this week's episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I share some thoughts about what happened to me a couple of weeks ago-my first split with a post-collegiate thrower.  It's not a topic I've discussed before because it's the first time I've had a post-collegiate athlete decide they wanted to go in a different direction and hire another coach.  In total, our coach-ath...

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I share some thoughts about deliberate practice, throwing clubs, and Ashland Elite.

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I share championship data outcomes; what the numbers mean, who performed "well", how we define "well", why some athletes competed over their seed marks, and general thoughts about putting plans together for our athletes to be able to throw/perform well when it matters most.

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I review some numbers from the 2022 Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships.  The specific numbers I discuss are setting personal bests and what coaches can do to better assist their athletes in setting personal best marks at the national championships.

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I review some numbers from the 2022 Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships.  The specific numbers I discuss are setting personal bests and what coaches can do to better assist their athletes in setting personal best marks at the national championships.

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching Podcast I review our final two weeks of the season leading up to the 2022 Division III Outdoor National Track and Field Championships.

In this episode of the Forza Athletics Life and Coaching podcast I provide some insight into the research behind deliberate practice; what it is, who coined the phrase, how it can be defined, the four stages of deliberate practice, mundanity, and the Olympic Games.

https://www.forzathletics.com/docs-thoughts/365-days-between-conference-championships

In Part 2 of my interview with Ryan Metzger, we discussed:  1. External vs. Internal motivation for competition  2. Wearing different hats while coaching athletes in the weight room  3. Continuing her Olympic weightlifting career  4. Making the transition to Tennessee  5. Expectations about working with high profile student-athletes  6. How one earns the distinction o...

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