Humor is a powerful teaching tool. I try to use as much of it as possible in my coaching, mostly because I’m not that funny and it takes a lot of jokes to finally make somebody laugh. My favorite style of humor is self-deprecation. Maybe I’m just unloading decades of low self-esteem, but I do …
Coaches and lifters love to argue over minutia and quibble over semantics. There’s probably some validity to every training method out there. And there’s probably some valid criticism for each one, too. Some training methods, therapies and remedies probably don’t do much good, but don’t do any harm either. And if we can agree that …
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Superstition is as much a part of baseball as bats and bases. Spitting sunflower seeds, leaping over the foul line and not washing your lucky jock… none of these things make you a better baseball player, but good luck telling someone on a 10-game hitting streak to ditch the silly antics lest their fortune runs …
