Darren A Coaching

Quotes that I use to inspire me in my Coaching I have been fortunate enough to have a lot of people to help, inspire and mentor me on my coaching journey. This blog is about 2 quotes that I try to follow when coaching athletes and helping other coaches. The two quotes John Quinn “There is no such things as secrets, it is how you use it (the information)” Mike Boyle “God gave me two eyes, two ears and one mouth for a reason” I tried to find a source for these, the best I could come up for Mike Boyle was by Socrates We have been given two ears, two eyes, and one tongue. This means that we should hear and see more than we speak.” Socrates (469 BC–399 BC) John Quinn came to Hobart as the head track and field coach in the early 1990’s, and as an athlete who was also a qualified throws coach I had some contact with him during his 7 years here.   As is the case, you don’t realise how much of an impact someone has on you until they have gone or as you get older and wiser.   At a coaches meeti

It has been awhile since I posted something on this blog. In previous blogs I posted draft training for a 100m and a 400m runner in the GPP and SPP phase.  This blog is going to step away from this and talking about the planning and time required to organise training for a group of athletes who are entering the first meets for the track, or one of major road races or some who are just training. In the next four weeks I have two athletes preparing for regional school events who are both sprinters (400m and below), a middle long distance runner preparing for the the final 10km road race for the year and two athletes who are training but will lose some training time due to travel requirements for study and work. How do I go about organising the weights sessions to help them individually and to make this as easy as possible to manage.  Ultimately, it comes down to preparation and structuring the programmes to allow as much interaction with all athletes. Training for the all athlete