Tag: Dan Peterson

This is the first of a three-part book excerpt from The Playmaker’s Advantage, available wherever books are sold. By Daniel Peterson and Leonard Zaichkowsky, Ph.D. How hard could it be?…

In June, when the world’s best men’s soccer teams kickoff World Cup 2018, we will be painfully reminded that Team USA will not be among them for the first time…

By Dan Peterson, TeamSnap’s sports science writer. Each week in the world’s top soccer leagues, injuries take an expensive toll.  Millions of dollars of talent left on the substitutes bench…

By Dan Peterson, TeamSnap’s Guest Writer about sports science and skill development for young athletes. If you visit any gym, weight room or running track, you are sure to see the…

By Dan Peterson, TeamSnap’s Guest Writer about sports science and skill development for young athletes. Ask a group of grade school students to name their favorite class and the overwhelming and…

By Dan Peterson, TeamSnap’s Guest Writer about sports science and skill development for young athletes. In the month of October, thousands of runners are nearing the end of their summer-long training schedules…

By Dan Peterson, TeamSnap’s Guest Writer about sports science and skill development for young athletes. With the arrival of the Fall sports season, many high school and college athletes are finding…

By Dan Peterson, TeamSnap’s Guest Writer about sports science and skill development for young athletes. It’s late in the fourth quarter, the third period, stoppage time or even that last mile….

By Dan Peterson, TeamSnap’s Guest Writer about sports science and skill development for young athletes The 10,000-hour theory has become the American dream for developing athletes. Just work hard enough and…

For many elite team coaches, the greater challenge in developing top young athletes is not improving the ones on your team, but rather finding the talented kids that got away…