Coaching and Performing Movements: Take 2

This week’s education session consisted of revisiting the subject that was broached in my Walking the Walk (click the link) post from a couple of weeks back. This time around, the format of the education session was switched-up a bit. Instead of evaluating each...

Walking the Walk

This week our Cahill-coached education session focused on knowing how to coach specific movements correctly, and knowing how to perform them correctly ourselves. Aside from these skills, we also discussed the reasons why it is important to possess them. It is one...

Program Design Preview: Things to Consider

Though we have not yet broached the subject of program design during our education sessions, I thought I would write about the program design book that NU assistant director of strength and conditioning, Mike Zawilinski, gave to us interns. The book, Athletic Based...

Snatch Progression & Modification

This week’s education session included a guest-appearance lecture by Bill Stearns, former Northeastern S&C intern and current personal trainer at Equinox in Boston’s Back Bay. Using his experience and knowledge gained from working with Ellen Robbins at...