If you are an athlete -- or a coach/parent involved with kids who play sports -- be sure to check out The Sport Performance Assessment (SPA) available for the iphone, ipad, and ipod!  The SPA is the world's first professionally designed mental toughness assessment, and is designed to help athletes quickly and easily improve their mental toughness,…

We all talk about "mental mistakes" when we see athletes come up short, but did you ever stop to think that the reality is ALL sport mistakes have a "mental" component to them?? 

Check out my latest blog on mental breakdowns, and how mental training skills can help athletes reach their FULL athletic potential:

Mental Mistakes blog

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The Concussion Recognition & Response app, now available through iTunes, is a new tool that helps coaches and parents recognize whether an individual is exhibiting/reporting the signs and symptoms of a suspected concussion. The app allows a coach or parent to respond quickly and appropriately to this potentially serious medical situation. In less than 5 minutes, the user can go through a checklist of possible signs/symptoms to determine whether to remove the child from play and the need…

Young athletes are often scared of injuries associated with sports, but did you know emotional fear is usually the bigger challenge kids…

Coaches & Parents,

We would like to announce our two last events for the summer. I attached a flyer of our last combine event on July 16^th.

The other event is on July 9^th at Guilford College. This is the unity football camp and the website is www.unityfootballcamp.com.

This is Coach Jimmy Lamour. I hope all is well & your summer is great thus far. I am writing to inform…

Hello,

Just a quick reminder to register today for the clinic in New Jersey this Saturday, June 25. Forward this correspondence to your peers too. If you are an advocate of helping keep athletes healthy, safe, and performing at their highest level, then you need to forward this email and be at this clinic.

Register at http://www.smarterteamtraining.com/events/

Download the PDF with the…

June 15, 2011

ORLANDO, Fla. - The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and Liberty Mutual Insurance have announced that Archie Manning, chairman of the National Football Foundation & College Football Hall of Fame, will be present at the annual NACDA Convention to discuss the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, June 17.

Manning is the national spokesman…

I haven’t had much to write about regarding my team.  We have a three week break before our next game, and I decided to give the boys a week off.  We needed this time to get ourselves a mental recharge and obviously to heal some bumps and bruises we have incurred.  I definitely needed the break as I have a total staff of 3 guys (including myself) and have had a lot of the work fall on to my…

Hey Coaches, if you are looking for a FANTASTIC role model athlete who plays with heart, then make sure the kids you coach are aware of Jason Terry, guard for the Dallas Mavericks.  I wrote a column today on Terry and his remarkable will to win and how he displayed great conviction in the Mavericks title…

When athletes (and teams) don't play by the rules, the results impact everyone -- especially the athletes and teams who do play by the rules.  Unfortunately, we too often only focus on the people who got caught as opposed to the others who lost out on opportunities, championships, and in some cases…

I would like to share our latest spread offense newsletter, the topic is the read play out of a trips formation.

Go to: SpreadOffense.com Newsletter - June 2011

Keep spreadin 'em!

--Mark

www.SpreadOffense.com

We came across an informative article written by Dr. David O’Brien, Director of the Sports Management Program at Drexel University (Also a former athletic director at Long Beach State University, Temple and Northeastern University). Dr. O’Brien…

1.  Keep it Simple Stupid (K.I.S.S.).  It’s easy to get caught up with all the fancy-pantsy methods of training because those are fun, exciting, and new-age.  But, the fact is, most of what works turns out to be the same old stuff that has worked for years: heavy, hard lifting on basic…

If you haven't found out already, we are a big fan of the Parisi Speed School stuff here at Full Throttle Athletics.  For that…

The more involved I talk to people about you camp development, the more I have realized that coaches greatly under appreciate the power of using games to teach real football concepts to their athletes.  For that reason, I have put together a few games for coaches and youth programs to use to teach football fundamentals and promote competition among…