Harrogate Town AFCSunday 29th April 2012, 8:59 AM
One of my favourite words is parsimony. It is a word that is not often used in the fitness industry but it basically means ‘stinginess’ or sometimes ‘extreme simplicity’. I admit it is a bugbear of mine that …
Friday 13th April 2012, 8:28 PM
Numbers. Have you noticed how much our lives are governed by numbers? Taxes, fuel prices and the lottery draw to name but a few. And this season we have all been very aware of the numbers which can …
Monday 13th February 2012, 3:53 AM
I hope you have all been out enjoying the snow with your sledges! Whilst all fun for snowball fights, I must confess this weather always makes things awkward for football and harder for us poor coaches trying to …
Friday 13th January 2012, 5:35 PM
First of all this week I would like to thank Peter, our web master, for putting up that dodgy photo of me on my last message. There I am trying to inspire you lovely people to get fit …
Tuesday 10th January 2012, 8:44 PM
A very Happy New Year to you all! Apologies for the belated sentiment but it’s been all hand to the pumps so to speak. Some fantastic new players, Broughie, Whitey, Patrice, Beezo and Robbie, joining us for training, …
Monday 5th December 2011, 4:30 PM
Last week I was talking with two of our fantastic long standing (and I guess suffering) fans Dave and Kev at the Worcester bar, and the conversation turned to weight control and keeping the middle aged spread down. …
Monday 21st November 2011, 8:53 PM
As a lecturer it is always nice when something I write gets people thinking. So I was happy when one of the lads questioned my comments on the ‘evils’ of the bench press for footballers. They were happy …
Wednesday 9th November 2011, 4:45 PM
If there is one thing I know people, including athletes, do not do enough of, it is flexibility work. I can get athletes running, weight training and boxing but a proper stretch? They don’t enjoy that one. After …
Tuesday 25th October 2011, 1:36 PM
Obviously new regimes mean new routines, and one of the earliest routines I introduced here at Town was the weighing of players before and after a match. This wasn’t to see who had been over …
Saturday 15th October 2011, 10:00 AM
I am not sure about everyone else, but I seem to get inundated with emails advertising the latest this and that, all of which is clearly an old idea rehashed and a fancy name attached. This week I …
Friday 7th October 2011, 7:08 PM
A couple of years back I was fortunate to have dealings with staff at Bolton Wanderers during Sam Allardyce’s reign. At the time he had an entire sports science department staffed with everything from physiotherapists, psychologists, performance analysts …
