This site was designed with the
.com
website builder. Create your website today.
Start Now
  • Home

  • About

  • Weightlifting videos

  • Weightlifting (tech' tips)

  • Planned practice

  • Blog

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
    181212 HL Head and shoulders.jpg
    200609 Lina 62 snatch (PR)_extension.jpg

    Coaching for results

    64274837779

    • All Posts
    • Coaching ethics
    • Coaching effectiveness
    • Getting Started
    • Your Community
    • Blogging Tips
    Search
    Representing your country – the hard road : NBA or your national team
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Aug 1, 2018
    • 3 min

    Representing your country – the hard road : NBA or your national team

    OKC star Steve Adams' reported explanation as to why he has not made himself available for selection to the New Zealand basketball team...
    22 views0 comments
    Tour de Salbutamol – antidoping on the rack
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Jul 22, 2018
    • 3 min

    Tour de Salbutamol – antidoping on the rack

    The recent clearance of UK rider, Chris Froome, to ride in this year’s Tour de France adds yet another sorry chapter to this historic...
    10 views0 comments
    Teaching young athletes not to cheat
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Apr 3, 2018
    • 3 min

    Teaching young athletes not to cheat

    The ball tampering events of the last two weeks left me thinking about the early experiences of elite athletes that set the ground work...
    28 views0 comments
    Fair play - do we understand why (Australian cricketers)?
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Mar 25, 2018
    • 3 min

    Fair play - do we understand why (Australian cricketers)?

    I was finalising this post when news of the Australian ball tampering came through. Not just an individual player, but a ‘team’ decision...
    23 views0 comments
    Giving children a chance to be successful sport participants for life – Part 3
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Mar 18, 2018
    • 4 min

    Giving children a chance to be successful sport participants for life – Part 3

    The two earlier posts in this three-part series discuss some of the scientific principles of teaching and learning that should underpin...
    13 views0 comments
    Giving children a chance to be successful sport participants for life - Part 2
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Mar 11, 2018
    • 3 min

    Giving children a chance to be successful sport participants for life - Part 2

    In part two of my posts on coaching kids, I look at the acquisition of basic sports skill from a school system perspective. Two main...
    23 views0 comments
    Giving children a chance to be successful sport participants for life:    Part 1
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Mar 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    Giving children a chance to be successful sport participants for life: Part 1

    There’s a conversation going on in sport and physical education today that asks whether our children’s experience of sport is good...
    13 views0 comments
    The coach in the mirror
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Feb 5, 2018
    • 3 min

    The coach in the mirror

    The late great British athletics coach, Wilf Paish, once told me that in all his fifty years of coaching, no coach had ever come to him...
    49 views0 comments
    Getting inside your opponent's head
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Jan 25, 2018
    • 4 min

    Getting inside your opponent's head

    This post has been delayed for two main reasons. First, Coach Lawrence has a been a bit under the weather needing a visit from Dr Greg...
    25 views0 comments
    Coaches: holding the ethical line
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Jan 11, 2018
    • 3 min

    Coaches: holding the ethical line

    Tennis players turning up to a tournament, withdrawing without serving a ball, yet each claiming guaranteed prize money of $7,604. Then...
    26 views0 comments
    Public Understanding of Science and Sport
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Jan 1, 2018
    • 4 min

    Public Understanding of Science and Sport

    For your New Year holiday reading, today’s post is longer than usual and bit technical. If you’re someone who doesn’t trust science or...
    19 views0 comments
    Coaching talented juniors and expensive urine!
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Dec 24, 2017
    • 3 min

    Coaching talented juniors and expensive urine!

    Earlier this week, I came across a troubling example of a coach talking ‘science’ to justify training programme content for a 16-year old...
    14 views0 comments
    Paid a lot to head butt and pour beer on the head: a top model earner!
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Dec 16, 2017
    • 3 min

    Paid a lot to head butt and pour beer on the head: a top model earner!

    Recent stories of England cricketers doing some odd things after hours in bars is part of a long narrative about professional (mostly...
    7 views0 comments
    Coach Lawrence said "Just saying".
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Dec 10, 2017
    • 2 min

    Coach Lawrence said "Just saying".

    Of course, not a lot of the standard sayings we have as coaches are original. Often we appropriate the clever words of others and use...
    19 views0 comments
    Referees don't lose you games!
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Dec 1, 2017
    • 2 min

    Referees don't lose you games!

    Recent street protests about and legal challenges to a recent refereeing decision offer us an insight to sport that coaches urgently need...
    15 views0 comments
    Being the entourage: rules needed
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Nov 26, 2017
    • 1 min

    Being the entourage: rules needed

    This short post follows my last comments about the role of those who surround athletes (including coaches). I got good feedback on it as...
    9 views0 comments
    Coached to death? Really?
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Nov 21, 2017
    • 2 min

    Coached to death? Really?

    This was a difficult blog to write. It’s about real people and real consequences. The death on 18 November at 50 of the great Turkish...
    102 views0 comments
    Coaching Basics (3) “Concentrate. How many times must I tell you?”
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Nov 19, 2017
    • 3 min

    Coaching Basics (3) “Concentrate. How many times must I tell you?”

    This post returns to the issue mentioned in earlier post on individualised training and coaching in team settings. Coaches of individual...
    21 views0 comments
    Violence in sport #1
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Nov 12, 2017
    • 3 min

    Violence in sport #1

    Violent events at the Rugby League World Cup last week (5 November) threw up a couple of issues around violence and violence in sport...
    32 views0 comments
    Women's sport - what: not newsworthy?
    Hugh Lawrence
    • Nov 5, 2017
    • 2 min

    Women's sport - what: not newsworthy?

    "Nothing makes my blood boil like when I'm told I can't do something because I'm a woman". Well said that woman co-presenter on TV3 news...
    25 views0 comments
    1
    2
    34

    Coaching for results

    donnelly.lawrence@xtra.co.nz

    64274837779

    PO Box 169, Paraparaumu, Wellington, 5254 New Zealand

    ©2017 Hugh Lawrence - Coaching for results. Proudly created with Wix.com