Thanks again to Linda Flanagan for sharing her time to chat about her book, Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania are Ruining Kids’ Sport – and why it matters.
Linda left us with many great pieces of wisdom:
– Coaching and sport need a culture shift. Athletes need autonomy, mastery and belonging to perform at their best, and to have the courage to speak up against maltreatment n sport.
– We need to bring back more play time, including recess time for kids. That unstructured play time helps athletes become more robust athletes, and from my research we know students perform better academically. If we want our kids to do better in school, give them more activity.
– Linda’s Favourite run workout is 10 miles divided up as: 2 easy, 2 hard, 2 easy, 2 hard, 2 easy. The easy you stretch out long enough to recover and 2 miles hard is not so long you can’t survive it. It’s a great marathon building block. Definitely a workout to try sometime.
Watch Sasha’s Stories Episode 3 with Linda Flanagan here: https://youtu.be/NwCX_gjK8Mw
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