The Misunderstood Truth About Accountability

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 […]

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The Critical Difference Between Tactics and Strategy in Sports

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. […]

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How Coaches Can Move Athletes from Mental to Muscle Memory

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 […]

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