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How to make New Year's resolutions that you'll actually follow

Drop 10 pounds. Quit smoking. Stop cursing.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Neuromuscular warm-up associated with reduced lower extremity injuries in adolescent female athletes

Integrating a coach-led neuromuscular warm-up prior to sports practice appeared to reduce the risk of lower extremity injuries in female high school soccer and basketball athletes, according to a report in the November issue ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Positive coaching: Coaches must be open to self-examination, lifelong learning

In the high stakes world of elite level athletics, coaches are king – but that lofty perch can prove a sword of Damocles. More often than not they're regarded as the undisputed authority on what it takes to train an ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World Cup Twitter ban for All Blacks

All Blacks players have been banned from communicating directly with fans via Twitter during this year's World Cup, amid fears the microblogging website will prove a distraction during the tournament.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

Coaching with compassion can 'light up' human thoughts (w/ Video)

Coaching happens just about everywhere, and every day, with learning as the goal. Effective coaching can lead to smoothly functioning organizations, better productivity and potentially more profit. In classrooms, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Does job coaching really work?

Can a government-sponsored job coaching program for individuals with intellectual disabilities really help someone get a job?

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 09, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's who you know: Study shows hurdles facing black football coaches

Why are there so few black coaches in big-time college football? New research from North Carolina State University shows that it really does come down to who you know, and how well you know them. But the findings go against ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Migration of key employees to competitors hinders organizational success

A study by researchers from the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University explored the competitive advantage organizations gain when hiring key employees away from a competitor. The loss of a key employee can ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Coaches can shape young athletes' definition of success

Young athletes' achievement goals can change in a healthy way over the course of a season when their coaches create a mastery motivational climate rather than an ego orientation, University of Washington sport psychologists ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter trouble: Players told to tweet no more

(AP) -- @davidclowney Rex is watching. He's not the only one.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Disease prevention often costs more than it saves

(AP) -- When it comes to health care spending, an ounce of prevention is seldom worth a pound of cure. Take Mrs. Jones, a hypothetical 55-year-old obese woman at risk for diabetes. It costs $900 a year to ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0