Taylor Burns

Sit Down With Reece Hemmerling

Reece had an outstanding two year career with junior college powerhouse Barton CC, in Kansas, and will now be heading to NCAA Division 1 USC Upstate University. After a strong freshman season where he posted a 6-2 record and had 54 strikeouts in 55 innings he took a another step

The Role of A Coach

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear." - Tao Te Ching This is a quote that's been rattling around in my brain a lot lately. As someone who works with predominantly high school and college athletes (and now

Training the Hypermobile Athlete

How much congenital laxity (hypermobility) an athlete possesses often gets overlooked. This is a huge oversight. This post is going to outline how to assess it, and why it's so important to your program design and implementation with athletes. First off, we need to differentiate laxity (hypermobility) and instability. Laxity

The Burns Perspective Podcast: Ep 1 Q and A!

This has been a long time coming, but I'm thrilled to release the first episode of my podcast! I field a handful of questions from some current athletes, ranging from how breathing patterns influence program design, to nutrition strategies, to how to develop more perseverance. ‎The Burns Perspective: First Q

5 Lessons From The Book 'Hidden Potential'

"For every Mozart who makes a big splash early, there are multiple Bachs who slowly ascend and bloom late! What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn...if provided with appropriate conditions of learning. People are actually very rarely freaks of nature. They're freaks of

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