Rule13 is launching 3 new events. Two new seminars and a coaching academy. The first seminar will be a day-long and will focus on movement assessments and correctives for the group exercise class. It will show you how to assess movement and develop a corrective strategy that can be built into the warm-ups for your…
As an athlete is the programme the most important part of your training or is it the coaching? Let’s look at programming. A programme will get a person fitter, no matter what programme it is, as long as it’s consistent and progressive. It also has to be relative to what the athlete needs; there is…
Rule13 strength and conditioning are going to do a study using the Functional Movement Screen (FMS). There have been a lot of studies done on the FMS and it is widely used as a predictor of injury when screening athletes. One of the issues with the FMS is that it is performed unloaded and it…
Over the past number of years that I have been coaching kids classes or working with the youth athlete, I have had at least one in the group that has or is on medication for, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). There has been a noticeable increase in the number of kids who have ADHD; though,…
This isn’t so much a fact finding blog post but more a challenge to coaches and trainers. It’s also for people who pay for coaching or training. It’s more a post about the importance of continuing to learn and realising the level you currently are. So you have become a trainer and got your certificate…
All gyms have their new members fill in ParQ’s or at least they should. These are usually generic and have questions about general health and injuries. They are filled in by the athlete and then just filed away and never looked at. The part I want to focus on is the injury or previous injury…
Rule13 is offering a year of sponsored training, coaching and or mentoring to any athlete or coach no matter their sporting back round or experience. We will also throw in a years worth of nutrition coaching to help you reach your full potential at your given sport or training goals. We will provide this opportunity…
It’s been a while since I last posted, this is due to being away for a while. I will try and make up for it over the next few months. Today I’m just posting a link to a report that has been put together from research on youth resistance training. We all know how important…
Play comes in many forms and they change with ages and stages of development. When you recognize the different types of play it makes it more interesting observing and supporting children’s play. Every kind of play lays down a synaptic pathway in the brain, brain pathways that join to make ‘the information highway’ for higher…
Are we preventing our kids learning through play because we think they are being naughty or just annoying? We know through lots of evidence and studies that play is very important for a child’s development. the thing is, the more we learn about play, and the different types of play, the more we can see…