The role of coaches in
developing players.

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Webinar Replay: Transforming Character Strengths into Productive Results

Take five minutes and write down on a piece of paper: Ask another coach the same two questions and compare your answers. What next? The importance of character strengths in sport is gaining...

Coaches

3 Min

Balance getting better with doing too much

For every aspirational athlete, there comes a time, when the pursuit of excellence clashes with the maintenance of their own well-being.  Not being aware of this (and having strategies to...

Coaches

4 Min

Nutrition 102 for adolescent athletes: The vitamins & minerals you should be concerned with

In our prior article, Nutrition 101, we outlined the key nutrition information coaches and parents need to know about macronutrients (carbs, protein and fats) for supporting teenage athletes. Additionally, there...

Coaches

5 Min

Nutrition for adolescent athletes who participate in endurance sports

Athletes who participate in endurance sports have particular nutrition requirements that differ from those involved in more general sporting codes. In this article, we discuss how young athletes can optimise...

Coaches

4 Min

Nutrition for strength-based sports

In this article, we discuss how parents and coaches can support the nutrition needs of adolescent athletes that participate in strength-based sports.  One of the functions of protein is to...

Coaches

6 Min

Developing Competence: What Coaches Need to Know about Athlete Learning

Why are some coaches better than others at helping individuals to improve? In part, it comes down to how coaches think about developing competence in their athletes. In this article,...

Coaches

5 Min

Strength Training for Young Women: The Benefits for Female Athletes 

When most people think of strength training, they imagine bulky men lifting heavy weights in a smelly gym. However, strength training is not just for guys – it can be...

Coaches

3 Min

Resilient youth: Harnessing the power of sport

He moana pukepuke e ekengia e te waka  A choppy sea can be navigated  The stats on anxiety and depression in young people continue to pour in. And they continue...

Coaches

9 Min

Changing how we talk about young women’s bodies

The physical and social changes teenage girls go through can often push them away from sport. So we need to change the way we talk about puberty and periods, says women’s health in sport...