Articles
Coach Pfaff on coaching at the Games
The second of our post-Rio series features Coach Pfaff. In this quick-fire Q&A, Dan reviews some of the challenges faced at the 2016 Olympic Games, and shares his solutions. Dan - thanks for joining us. How many athletes were you coaching in Rio? I was directly responsible for 4 athletes: Greg Rutherford, Fabrice Lapierre, Christabel Nettey, and Yosiri Urrutia. I also consulted with 3...
Olympic Games – performance and pressure
Our post-Rio series of articles and interviews will blend experiences of the ALTIS athletes and coaches, with guest insights into themes relating to the Games. Kicking off this series is an interview with esteemed Coach, and friend of ALTIS - Mike Hurst. Born in 1951, and raised in Sydney Australia, Mike is a Coach with over 35 years' experience in Track &...
How Perspective Creates Success
By Ian Warner The interesting thing about success is that to become more successful, we have to help others achieve success. What does this have to do with the sport of track and field? Everything. Because success in this sport is about relationships. And relationships require perspective when communicating with others, especially for track and field athletes. For relationships to...
Series 16: Ameer Webb
As the USA Track & Field Olympic trials get underway in Eugene, we caught up with sprinter Ameer Webb on his season so far and hopes going into the event. "It’s going pretty good, it has been exciting" reflected Ameer. "I’ve put in a lot of hard work but when you see a 19 as an opener, it makes you...
How Collaboration Leads to Success: A Comparison of Walt Disney and Performance Therapy Best Practices
By Rick Wade Growing up in Southern California, I got to experience Disneyland more often than most people. The “Happiest Place on Earth” draws huge crowds every day of the week, all year long, and adults enjoy it as much as kids. That’s not an accident—Walt Disney paid incredible attention to the details that are most meaningful to people looking...
Performance Therapy: What Is It and How Is It Applied?
By Dr Gerry Ramogida If you have followed the ALTIS Twitter feed and read Facebook posts or other articles in this blog-post series, you have likely seen the term “Performance Therapy,” with some description of how therapists are integrated into the training environment. But what is really meant by Performance Therapy? Is it a case of simply having treatment provided...
Communication – Maximizing Impact in Coaching
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that words have power: The effective use of words can fast-track learning, build emotional connections, develop mutual trust, and bolster positive coach-athlete relationships. Communication – the spectrum When thinking about communication, many of us think in the context of words alone. However, the way we communicate with the world has many more layers than that....
Sports Medicine: Acupuncture’s Role in Trackside Therapy
By Donna Rebadow, M.S., M.Ac., L.Ac., SMAC. Many of the ALTIS athletes and a few of the coaches call Sports Medicine Acupuncture “magic” because of how quickly it works and without medications, shots, or surgery. Often, results with them are seen in one treatment. In my view, Sports Medicine Acupuncture is about 90% science, anatomy, and physiology, and 10% magic....
The road to ALTIS
This week's staff blog-post is written by Jerod Carnahan, who shares the route he took to becoming a Performance Therapy at ALTIS. As a Performance Therapist at ALTIS, the two questions that I get asked the most by visiting coaches or therapists are: Why did you become a therapist? How did you come to work with ALTIS? Likewise, people I...
Planning Year Round Training
PLANNING YEAR ROUND TRAINING Don’t be married to the paper - think outside the box… By Rohsaan Griffin Planning a long-range training scheme is a complex task: A task which should include thought processes considering multiple layers of progressions, plans, and contingencies. If considered carefully, long range plans can serve as a blueprint to shaping and directing athletic potential; tantamount...