Nathen Culleton

A day of games development provisions in @KilkennyCandG 1. TY Future Leaders Coaches Workshop in UPMC Nowlan Park ✅ 2. Academy U15 Session in SETU Carlow ✅ 3. Academy U16 Athletic Dev. In UPMC Nowlan Park ✅ @KilkennyCLG

Below is the underlying template I use for my first session of the week, which is a lower body strength and power session: A1 - Power A2 - Power B1 - Strength C1 - Accessory C2 - Accessory C3 - Accessory In the comments is the session I did today.

Really interesting, insightful easy-to-understand piece on running data in football. Metrics like high speed running distance and sprint distance are only a part of the story. For anyone looking to understand sports science through a football sense, this is worth your time.

@MillaCoach @KilkennyCLG @gaaleinster @KilkennyCandG Thanks Cyril

@NathenCulleton @KilkennyCLG @gaaleinster @KilkennyCandG Excellent Nathen

Busy day of games development in @KilkennyCLG 1. Primary school go games in Dunmore ✅ 2. Teacher training workshop in St. Canice’s ✅ 3. U15 Adaptive Games across 5 venues ✅ 4. Academy Athletic Development ✅ @gaaleinster @KilkennyCandG

Nathan helping to develop the future volunteers of our association which will be integrated. @KilkennyCandG @KilkennyCLG @KilkennyCamogie @gaaleinster

Welcomed the Presentation TY Future Leaders Class of 2026 to UPMC Nowlan Park last week, getting them certified as GAA coaches so they can get out on the ground and coach in their clubs 👏💪

When we're introducing a new skill it's always a nice idea to model it yourself or, even better, get the kids to model it. Your job then is to praise the effort. CATCH THEM DOING GOOD! #GAA #learningthroughplay #coacheducation gamesensecoaching.com

Youth coaches and players, BE KIND! You never know the battles someone’s fighting, their tough day, or hidden struggles. A simple chat or connection could make a difference. Let’s build each other up! #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealthMatters

Hard work in action 💪 Our Kilkenny GAA Academy athletes fully engaged in their Athletic Development Programme — a curriculum designed to support long-term athlete development, building strong & robust players for the future. #KilkennyGAA #LTAD

The lessons are endless here Stop selecting early!

Introduction to Coaching Gaelic Games Course with @CBSKilkenny1859 students this morning 💪 @KilkennyCLG

@KilkennyCandG great work by the team over the midterm

Superb Show up and play, like it should be

@gerardgraham1 Sure

@NathenCulleton well Nathan, would you mind following for a dm?

@movementcoachkm This month in Kilkenny we had 5 regional centres of adaptive games. 31 clubs involved, over 200 U15 players. Mixing of rural and urban clubs, some clubs had 3 others 23, venues evened out so that plenty of 8 aside games for all. Show up and play, nothing else to it.

Finally!! The program of games has to change. There is too much training, not enough games, not enough mixing of clubs (rural v urban, exposure of players from big clubs etc), too much adult imagined championships, too long a season (which I believe is hurting participation and multi sport for several sports including Gaelic Games itself) and finally play more in summer. It has become ridiculous that there is less and less sport played in summer now and players do nothing for weeks and months only train and then go to school in September and have club, school (often multi sport) all together in 2 months of absolute madness. Much of this started with clubs and then counties accommodating their (obviously good) player who’s parents went away on holidays and managements unwilling to play without them. All coming from over zealous coaching and a desire to win adult type championship. Where as if there was a program of games up to u16 where players still had championship but at the right time of the year an the rest of the season got pocketed with various tournaments an blitzes of all sorts of shapes and sizes exposing players to different forms of the game and opposition the standard of the game would rise and the participation levels would rise. The counties that embrace this first will have 15-20 years of success before others catch up from bottom to top levels

Brilliant day for our U16 squad at their Performance Camp in UPMC Nowlan Park 💪⚡ An introduction to all things performance 💪 @KilkennyCLG

Great day of development with our U15 academy squads 💪 Midterm camp focused on testing & education around RYPT, followed by a quality hurling session and finishing up with a practical ICGG course in @ConahyShamrocks Brilliant engagement and standards from all involved 👏 #GAA

Huge credit to Danesfort GAA for their commitment to developing their youth coaches through the Level 1 Athletic Development course 👏💪 Investing in education = investing in players. Brilliant work for the future of the club and community! 🏐🏃‍♂️ @KilkennyCandG @gaaleinster