It’s common to hear parents and coaches tell young athletes after they lose that there’s no such thing as failure, only learning. Of course, this sounds good, but it isn’t a factual statement. The reality is when you aren’t ready to learn, failure is just failure. When an athlete fails by making the same exact […]
Coaches with experience intuitively know what to tell athletes who visually show signs of fatigue to help them keep pushing. When a coach tells athletes things like “no pain, no gain”, “mind over matter”, or “keep your head up” it’s not coaches’ speak or pseudo-science. Fatigue is the great equalizer in sports. The biggest, strongest, […]
All coaches set goals for their team. Great coaches make goal setting a priority. In other words, most coaches don’t make goal setting a priority. Instead, goal setting is an afterthought. It’s something that’s done just to check the box. When this happens, athletes miss out on most of the benefits of setting goals. On […]