Good morning. Steve Magness shares 34 coaching principles he’s collected over the years, Harvard's James Frazier walks through how he builds the armor for 1,200 athletes, and a new study lands on a surprising sleep sweet spot. Let's get into it.
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🛡️ How Harvard Builds Armor For 1,200 Athletes
The Harvard Crimson published a feature on their strength and conditioning program and director James Frazier. With 1,200 student-athletes across 42 teams, the program runs on what Frazier calls a ground-based, three-dimensional, multi-joint movement approach, with every workout personalized to the athlete and tracked with GPS.
Frazier's two goals: building athletes who are as resilient to injury as possible while also getting them to perform their best. He pushed back on the old stereotype of strength coaches as unscientific meatheads and stressed that academics come first, with lift times built around class schedules and makeups arranged when needed. His ask of his interns and new coaches is to keep asking one question over and over again: why? Read More
🧠 Steve Magness On The Craft Of Coaching
Performance coach and 'Do Hard Things' author Steve Magness published a piece breaking down 34 coaching principles he's collected over the years. The throughline is that we spend too much time on the prescription, the workouts and the protocols, when the actual job is changing the person in front of you.
He opens with a story from Pete Carroll, who told Steve Kerr that the offense doesn't really matter and that his main job was to decide what emotions he wanted his players to feel every day, then build the environment that created them. A few of the principles he listed include coach the athlete you have not the one you wish you had, effort is contagious and so is dread, coaching comes from conversation and most of that is listening, and the car ride home is the practice. See More
😴 The Sleep Sweet Spot For Biological Aging Isn't 8 Hours
A new Nature study on sleep and biological aging landed on a sweet spot of 6.4 to 7.8 hours per night, not the 8 hours most coaches preach. Sleep under 6 hours and sleep over 8 hours were both linked to faster biological aging, but probably for different reasons.
As Dr. Rhonda Patrick noted in sharing the study, short sleep may directly drive aging, while long sleep may be the symptom of something else going on, like underlying illness or poor sleep quality, that pushes someone to need more recovery. Read More
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