Moving Freely

Late post about Spring Track & Field Season!

These ladies did an amazing job this season, and I had a great time coaching & watching them compete!

As a team we improved on our in season results from last season, and considering our team is still on the smaller side that's pretty great for them!

A lot of our team is early in their track careers at our highschool, so it was exciting to watch them grow and find their way with different events as they learned and improved throughout the season.

Shout-out to my fellow Coaching Staff, they brought great vibes and kept things real. The dynamic between our coaches and athletes this season made meets and practices a blast, as we challenged each other in a way that was fun and brought out our A game.

I'm excited to see what we can do moving forward!



I mainly coach the 3 jumps (long\high\triple)
Thanks to & .oneill for the photos 🤗

Season of Rebirth
Who We Were, Who We Are, and Who We Will Be won't necessarily be the same people.
Learn, Live, Grow

Slow Progress
Most things don’t happen overnight.
But you already know that as much as you know hard work and consistency will get you the progress you seak.
Although I have been diligently working on it, I haven’t been checking my progress for flexibility as frequently lately.
With anything if you check it every day it will be hard to see the progress if any, as it takes time to adapt and we have good/bad days. Which can get a bit discouraging.
Within that, constant testing can be stressful along with struggling to see any new developments.
I find looking back along longer timelines for progress can help keep things in perspective if you need to be re-encouraged.

Anyways, here are current snapshots of my splits journey paired with one’s from when i first started.
Still practicing patience.

Understand, it is Important to Take Care of Your Body to Perform Your Best
I was taught this quite a bit growing up as an athlete, by many coaches, and stretching was a big part of that.
I came to understand being more flexible made it easier to move and get into positions for my sports and activities.
I have used all the different forms of stretching as taught to me by many coaches and teachers.

An example though is a coach in HS that showed our soccer team the Pigeon Stretch and suggested we do, most of us really had a hard time doing this but our coach could just fold right down. After that we started putting it in the routine more.
He was and experienced good player and was playing at the levels after HS and College and would often play with us in training, so we soaked up up much of his knowledge and advice.
He did things like implementing additional dynamic stretching into skills work for warm ups (so efficient, we really liked it as it allowed us more touches and time for more play specific work).
Sometimes Days Before big games we focused on recovery and would do light aerobic, skills, tactics, partner stretching. We found this really effective, we felt amazingly refreshed and limber after these sessions and were able to push extremely hard in the following games.
Needles to that taking care our bodies and feeling that ease of movement was important for performing well, and I think well implemented flexibility management was a big part of that, because we would train and play very Passionately.

Additionally Static Passive Stretching is a simple and effective way anyone can start to manage their flexibility training on their own, and it can help you start building good habits.
Find a position that targets the area you want to address, push it until it's a bit uncomfortable and try to relax and get more comfortable there.
Vary the intensity by some days pushing that zone of comfort further and other days not as much.
If you are consistent, over time your body will begin to adapt and you will have access to more positions and movements.

Thinking Nutrition

- The goals are to thrive, feel good, and be healthy.

- Nutrition is an extremely important component of health and wellness that we should all pay a bit more attention too.

- Prioritize your well being; physique/aesthetics shouldn't be the focus, but will likely be a long term product as a result.

- Follow Any Nutritional Plan/Advice you choose but here are some general notes that may be helpful on your journey.

1) Know what you're putting in your body
2) Look into things for yourself (start by what's in your food, and reading ingredient lists, you can even find where it comes from)
3) Dig deeper, what is your body actually receiving from your diet. (Think nutrient density and bioavailability)
4) Your Body is Intelligent, pay attention to it. A more simplistic diet can help you find what makes you feel the best by eliminating a lot of variables, and when slowly adding other things back in you may find the things that don't serve you well.
5) We don't all have the same needs and resources, so everyone has their own approach to nutrition and meal planning (you do what's best for you)
6) Intense relationships with food are unhealthy. Have what supports your body and the way it functions, drop the other stuff.
7) Your body is adaptable so think long term; you'll probably have to try something for more than 1 meal, 1 day, or even 1 week; think 1 month minimum (possibly longer). If it's right and you feel good it will be easier to transition to a lifestyle change.
8) Move at your own pace, creating new habits and learning new things takes time and patience.
9) Your body is resilient, falling off track a little on your journey is not the end of the world. Don't plan "cheat" days, but if you slip up don't beat yourself up about it.
10) Special situations can call for special approaches (ie. diseases, illnesses, deficiencies...), and in these cases it may be best to get guidance from a professional on specific protocols.

- I'm not an expert. But I have my own experiences and findings that I am willing to share.