Recent thoughts from my morning walks
Below are the latest 10 entries in my morning walk series:
Entries by Vern Gambetta
Rick Rubin on rules
This is from a great book I just finished: The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin. Rubin is a famous music producer. His observations and musings on creativity resonated with me.
The latest thoughts from my morning walks
Below are the latest 10 entries in my morning walk series:
GAIN: a brief history
I want to share with you a little bit of the history of GAIN. We started GAIN in 2007 with 14 brave souls at the Holiday Inn sports complex in Sunrise, Florida. That was the actual physical start of it. The genesis and the idea behind Gain goes a long way back really to my early years of coaching where I quickly learned that total immersion was the best learning environment. When I went to conferences or workshops where everybody lived together did active learning. Those were the things that I got the most out of.
Training do’s and don’ts #9: connect the dots
All physical capacities are connected. You can emphasize one in a session but there will be an effect on all others.
This week’s thoughts from my morning walks
Below are the latest 5 entries in my morning walk series:
GAIN: the people
What makes GAIN special in the network of people.
Training do’s and don’ts #8: individualization
Individualization all starts with the concept of adapting and fitting the program to the athlete to address their strength and weaknesses relative to the sport being trained for.
A regular and reliable resource: The Universal Traveler
The Universal Traveler is a resource I refer to periodically. In preparation for GAIN 2023 I reviewed it again because of its application to the theme: “Investing in the Process.” There is no better guide to the process.
Ten chances: my decathlon journey
This is a story, a true story although some of the facts may be a little muddled due to the passage of time. It is the story of a young athlete striving to be the best he could be with limited ability, but with laser focus and steely determination. This is not about a prodigy; it is about a late comer starting one of the most difficult athletic events there is – the decathlon. In German Zehnkampf: ten battles. Looking back, I see it as ten chances, ten chances to get better. Ten parts to make a whole. Each event is scored and at the end of two days the scores for the individual events are totaled to determine the overall score for ten events. Therefore Ten = One.
