Resources

Below I’ve highlighted some resources that have been helpful for my personal growth. They include webinars, presentations, podcasts, books, and other accounts that I follow regularly. I hope they are as helpful for you as they have been for me.

Websites

  • SimpliFaster – Great articles posted by reputable performance coaches. Some are more opinion based whereas others contain high volumes of citations and are meant as summaries on various topics.
  • Science for Sport – Educational platform with free blog posts and articles that summarize various components of sport science such as heart rate variability, velocity-based training, and neuroplasticity. Fantastic collection of resources for “crash courses” on various subjects.
  • Aspetar – Sports Medicine Journal – A cross between a journal and magazine with articles relating to return to play strategies, travel strategies, and summaries of current research on various other topics.
  • Complementary Training – Blog/Job Board – Collection of posts about various topics and probably the best collection of international job postings on the web.

Instagram Accounts

  • Vernon Griffith – Posts creative exercises and mobility drills.
  • Paul Fabritz – Primarily a basketball performance coach and provides great insight into movement efficiency, lifting, and nutrition.
  • Eric Cressey – Foremost authority on baseball strength and conditioning. Great all-encompassing info on lifting, mobility, and working with athletes.
  • The Prehab Guys – Consistently put out content relating to exercise progression and regression for rehab and prehab.
  • Strength Coach Therapy (Dr. Teddy Willsey) – Fantastic collections of exercises and mobility drills that are both simple and creative.
  • Brett Bartholomew – Authority on communication, leadership, and relationship building. Encourages discussion and talks a lot about developing buy-in.
  • Josh Garrish – High school performance coach who posts about training youth in the weight room and improving movement quality.

Books

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie – An oldie but a goodie of simple, human interaction. Carnegie describes basic strategies on connecting with other people and increasing your ability to positively impact them.
  • Sports Nutrition: A Handbook for Professionals, 6th ed. – Various authors – A go-to resource for all things in the dietetics world. Basic concepts but for a performance coach, it provides simple but meaningful definitions, explanations, and suggestions on what performance nutrition should look like.
  • Conscious Coaching – Brett Bartholomew – As I poured through Brett’s book on leadership, motivation, and creating buy-in, I constantly found myself drawing parallels to my own experience or athletes I have coached previously. He breaks down simple strategies for creating buy-in and working with a challenging personalities.
  • Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation – Various authors – A resource that walks you through the simple concepts of tissue and injury repair and effective strategies and considerations in bringing athletes back from injury.
  • The Sports Gene – David Epstein – As a coach who likes to think that I can turn anybody into a phenomenal athlete, this read put me in my place. It includes case studies and examples that show the balance of nature and nurture together in the development of athletic prowess. It encourages harnessing one’s genetics and not working against them in order to attain optimal levels of performance.

Webinars