Fit For Purpose: 2025-1

Fit For Purpose: 2025-1

This week's focus is on different aspects of long-term athlete development with a bonus podcast about the profound impact a flawed system can have on athletes’ lives and livelihoods.

The Power of Failure

Transforming Setbacks Into Success with Dr. Amy Edmondson

This is thought-provoking discussion on the necessity of failure in processes of growth and development.

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Consistency Wins

How to be consistent in the face of volatility and unpredictability

In this podcast, On Coaching argues for the virtues of patience in athlete development and thinking about fitness goals on a year or multi-year time frame rather than only looking to the next race.

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Improving Technique

Olympic Coach Stuart McMillan on Sprinting, Running Form and Drills to Improve Technique

This podcast consists of a very applicable conversation on how to use speed work to improve running form and power. My general rule is that if Stuart McMillan is talking, we should all be paying attention.

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