Monthly Archives: May 2017

Coach Jake Shannon – Power Series

Athlete Development

Training an athlete for power, or more specifically, training their ability to rapidly produce force, has to be coached, periodised and programmed properly for all athletes. Let’s be honest, majority of sports require athletes to be able to express high amounts of power. When all else is equal, 99% of the time, the athlete who […]

Coach Jake Shannon – Your check engine light is on..

Last week I finally got around to dropping my laptop off at an IT place in Darwin to fix it. When they asked me what the problem with it was, I couldn’t even tell them because I didn’t know. All I knew was that I was getting random messages, things wouldn’t close after I tried […]

Coach Jake Shannon – Comparing Yourself

Recently I got caught out comparing myself to another strength coach. He’s the same age as me with the same qualifications as me, yet he works at AFL level with one of the best teams in the competition. I quickly remembered why I try hard not to compare myself to others in my profession. We […]