The goal of accountability is to help you maintain positive behaviors as they develop into positive habits. Being critical of someone does not help achieve this goal in the long-term. While people do change short-term behavior to avoid criticism, the long-term behavior change that criticism causes is avoidance. Therefore, as sports psychologist Johana Oliver states […]
The obvious difference between strategy and tactics in sports is that tactics amount to the rote execution of skills while strategy amounts to the situational execution of a plan. What’s not so obvious is how this difference separates average coaches, teams, and athletes from good coaches, teams, and athletes from great coaches, teams, and athletes. […]
Muscle memory can provide elite athletes with a significant competitive advantage. When an athlete commits a skill to muscle memory, they’re more accurate, faster, and more efficient. The term muscle memory refers to the ability to execute a skill almost flawlessly without thinking. Unquestionably, it takes an enormous number of repetitions before an athlete commits […]