Now, once you have an understanding of the athlete from the perspective of each of the five areas listed above, your coaching communication will become more effective and efficient. This allows you to give short, precise, and digestible coach communication in a short amount of time. But, more importantly, your coaching will be more impactful because the athlete will buy into you as a coach.
Read MoreThe next best nutritional fad. Is anyone else tired of there always being a newly discovered secret in the nutrition world?
I know I am. The endless onslaught on nonsense is overwhelming. Fat is killing us. Nope wait, sugar is making us fat. Glutens are the devil. Wait… you drink milk!? That moldy cow udder pus is going to kill you….
Read MoreThere has been a lot of focus over the last few years in the coaching community about sport specialization. The research behind sport specialization is pretty clearly negative and has shown increased psychological stress, overuse injuries, and burnout (Jayanthi et al., 2013). Despite the negative research, it is unrealistic for specializing to go away. Many factors, including college recruiting, will keep specializing alive. I do think as the research continues to be talked about, and multi-sport athletes are being advocated by major college coaches we will see an uptick in multi-sport athletes.
Read MoreIt's important to realize that we are constantly taking in information through a "filter." We are making our best attempts to piece together billions of small bits of information and creating a distorted "best attempt." We need to be AWARE of that fact.
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