Blog Overview
Welcome to Build Better Athletes Faster! I’m Denise Wood. I created this site to share lessons learned from over 50 years as an athlete, coach, and professor.
My goal is to help athletes learn faster and train smarter by adding motor learning principles to the training formula. It’s like adding a missing ingredient to a good recipe and making it great. Yet, it’s pretty much overlooked by many coaches and athletes.
In this blog, you’ll find a wide range of hands-on, science-backed techniques that:
Boost athletic performance with sport-specific training techniques that target both sport fitness and skills.
Speed up skill development with teaching and learning techniques, and even use training exercises as teaching aids.
Use research tips to unravel popular training myths and break through barriers that waste time, effort, and money.
Harley Wheeler, elite rugby player from South-Doyle High School.
I’ve learned that building better athletes faster isn’t about training exactly the same way as everybody else, following popular fads, or even lifting as much weight as you can. It’s about leveraging the right exercises and techniques that target both sport fitness and skills in competition.
After all, if stronger muscles don’t improve performance on the field, athletes may get very fit—but not for their sports!
If you’re a sport or strength coach, athlete, or anyone who works with athletes, you’re in the right place. Here, you’ll get tips to select or create specialized exercises, effective training drills, and individualized programs using the right equipment for your athletes.
And when you know how athletes process what you say, you can choose better cues and feedback, correct errors more quickly, and much, much more to accelerate the learning curve.
You don’t need to be an expert or have a strong sport science background because it’s in coach-friendly language. And if you have lots of coaching experience, I hope you’ll find insightful tips that support what you’re already doing, and get more ideas to help athletes advance.
Ready to start building better athletes faster?
I’m just getting started. In the next few months, I’ll be adding more posts, downloads, and courses with tips and tools you can use right away.
Please check out my exclusive training tips, workout plans, instructional tools, and much more, give them a try, and let me know what you think.
It’s hard to beat the competition if you train the same way they do. Let’s get started on your exciting journey down a road less traveled to athletic success!
