Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership A rugby scrum becomes uncontested when a team loses a key member of their team. Contested is to engage in competition to attain a position… The post Youth development and the uncontes...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership When you are a caveman (or a nervous client or colleague).   How many times a day do you think you calculate risk? From stepping out… The post New is always bad appeared first on Simo...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Each day my kids ride to and from school. 10 km a day. 50 km in a week. Approx 2,400km of cycling per year.  Each… The post A nation paying for hope appeared first on SimonHarlingBlog...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership We might want to show off our medals as indicators of growth. But we really need to do is find tasks that will challenge and… The post Medals you want, skills you need appeared first...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership We play tennis during strawberry season. Rowing is for tall people who like water. Netball is for girls.  We choose tasks on the basis of… The post Skills come out of necessity appear...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Sporty parents like competition because it provides rules. Parents instinctively know that kids respond well to boundaries. The rules we use today are the same… The post The best vers...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Sat in a room off to the side of a hotel reception in Bristol yesterday.  It struck me that there were really only two questions… The post The work of breaking the ice appeared first...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Kick a project into it. Or go hide in it yourself. The art of being around but not visible. What if you had the guts… The post Long grass appeared first on SimonHarlingBlog.

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership The Athletic Skills Model, ASM, suggests that coaches think of themselves as landscape gardeners. Cultivating information-rich environments. Spaces that invite learners to explore – d...

Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership If a top-half coach doesn’t want to pander to the lowest common denominator. Then a bottom-half coach wants to bring the average up, taking the… The post Top or bottom appeared first...