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Good morning. What Special Forces training can teach coaches about resilience, Davis Martin wants to be an S&C coach when he's done pitching, and the Saints just gave everyone a look at their offseason training. Let's get into it.
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📖 What Special Forces Training Can Teach Coaches About Building Resilient Athletes
In a piece for SimpliFaster, former Olympic sprinter and bobsledder Craig Pickering breaks down what coaches can borrow from elite military training to build athletes who perform under pressure. The core argument: sport rarely tests for cognitive flexibility or stress resilience during the selection process, but both are trainable - and the military has been doing it systematically for decades.
Pickering outlines four practical methods coaches can implement: a chaos circuit that introduces unannounced disruptions mid-drill, a pressure-graduated scenario block built over six weeks, a pre-competition ACT protocol that helps athletes act through anxiety rather than suppress it, and a behavior-mapping system that turns vague goals into observable data points. Read More
⚾️ Davis Martin Is Pitching Like an Ace and Planning His S&C Career
Chicago White Sox pitcher Davis Martin is sitting second in MLB with a 1.62 ERA through 50 innings - and when his playing days are done, he wants to be a strength and conditioning coach. Martin holds his CSCS certification and needs to re-certify by December. His friend and former teammate Lane Ramsey, who runs PitchingWRX in Oklahoma City, has already told Martin he has a job waiting for him there as the facility's S&C coach when he's ready.
Martin's belief: the weight room is one of the best places to start building a team's culture. "If he wanted to affect future athletes and their careers, that would be a great place to start," former teammate Declan Cronin said. Read More
🏈 A Look Inside the Saints' Offseason Training
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