How a Strength and Conditioning Director Writes

Quick Facts

Favorite music to write to?

Something I’ve heard a million times. 

Favorite punctuation mark?

Question mark

What’s a word you always misspell?

Piece

 

Brian Bingaman
Director of Strength and Conditioning 

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SJU Writes: What kinds of writing do you do right now?

BB: A lot of it is reports and note-taking, making sure everything is documented correctly. I updated our policies and procedures.

SJU Writes: What is your favorite aspect of the writing process?

BB: Putting all my ideas down in one place, actually making myself sit down and go through things step by step and implementing it.

SJU Writes: What is your least favorite aspect of the writing process?

BB: Going back through and spell-checking, fact-checking, and revisions. I tend to go really fast, so I’ll miss words. 

SJU Writes: What’s the best thing you’ve ever written?

BB: Master’s project, when I was in grad school. It was a youth strength and conditioning manual for coaches including a detailed literature review.

SJU Writes: When you are confronted with a writing task, how do you approach it?

BB: When push comes to shove, I am someone who has to spit my ideas onto paper, and then I will go through and start working them out. When I try to write something, I always end up revising it like 15 times.

SJU Writes: Tell me something about the ideal physical environment in which you like to write. 

BB: I am listening to something that I have heard a hundred times. But, I can’t have any other distractions. I’m a morning person, so if I’m writing it flows better in the morning. 

—Olivia Clark ’22