Monthly Archive: July 2012

Jul 20

National Coaching Conf 2012 Presentations Now Available

Check out the NFHS website for most of the presentations from this year’s conference.

Jul 17

Longitudinal Study on UK Sport Coaches

This Sport Coach UK report is based on a unique four-year study of coaches in the United Kingdom. Over the past four years, 400 coaches completed a survey, providing details on their coaching practice, professional development and motivations. The data was used by UK coaching leadership to better understand coaches and track their changes over time. The coaches in this study represent a distinct …

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Jul 15

Athletes and supplements

There was a story about football players being suspended for the use creatine (click here for the article)  and the blog manager recently posted the USDA link for supplements and medicines that can not be taken.  Here are the MA  high school and college rules Massachusetts rules follow on nutritional supplements: http://www.miaa.net/contentm/easy_pages/view.php?page_id=168&sid=38&menu_id=4 NCAA rules: http://www.ncaapublications.com/p-4203-2011-2012-sports-medicine-handbook.aspx Supplements …

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Jul 07

July Coaching Resource of the Month-Supplements411

The US Anti Doping Agency (USADA) has created a great resource (Supplement411) for sport coaches, parents, athletes and administrators to provide a trusted source of information on nutritional supplements. USADA created this resource as they believe there is confusion over what constitutes a dietary supplement. There are differences between what classifies a product as a …

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