Coaching is an art. This art is best explained through a coach’s philosophy. For example, football coaches call their offensive and defensive philosophies schemes. Whether it’s the spread, hurry-up, zone read, or the West Coast on offense, or the 3-4, wide 9, Tampa 2 or zone blitz on defense. In other sports these schemes may […]
In a coach’s mind, as their athletes are drilling skills repetitively, there is a goal for accuracy, speed, and efficiency. Yet, in the athletes mind these goals are vague. The athlete is doing their best to repeat the drills to some mythical standard of excellence that keeps the coach from yelling at them. That’s pretty […]
Goal setting mistakes are common. So common that I often find that people will set a goal today only to forget about it in less than a month. In my experience, I see two overarching reasons for this type of mismanagement of goals. First and foremost, there is a tendency to set goals that don’t […]