Taylor Burns

How Can The Struggling High School Pitcher Improve? (Part 1)

1. It's You Versus You. It's On You. Stop making excuses. If it was easy everyone would do it. It's not the umpire's fault, not your coach or catcher's pitch selection, not the mound, and not your defense. It's simply you versus you out there. Win the battle within. 2.

The Most Important Rule of Success

"If you want to be successful, you must obey one rule - never lie to yourself." - Paulo Coelho For me, success in any endeavour is paradoxical. First, you must have intense, enduring faith in your own ability to achieve your goals. On the other hand though, you need to

Hockey Strength & Conditioning: Early Off-Season Priorities

We will have dozens of high school, junior, and collegiate hockey players scheduled to train at AHP over the spring and summer, so for the next month or so I will be spending a ton of time writing individualized strength and conditioning programs based on their assessment results. View this

Long-Term Athletic Development: Walk Before You Run

"Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there's something in you, it will come out." - Henri Matisse The best athletes in any sport have perfected the fundamentals - they've mastered the mundane. This bedrock of exceptional technical and athletic proficiency is what allows them

Thoughts on Scaling Your Business & Handling Growth

This blog post comes with a pretty large caveat: I don't consider myself even close to an authority on this topic. Most of the time I feel very lost when it comes to managing my team, ensuring we continue to grow and improve, and hold the standard that allowed the

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