One of the things coaches must spend more time thinking about is how long is too long for practice. Just because two-hour practice is how you’ve always done it doesn’t mean that’s how you should always do it. The amount of practice time is not something a coach can define once. Unquestionably, every hour of […]
Once a coach decides they need to help their athletes with mental toughness, they must first start with how they think about mental toughness. Mental toughness is not just an idea, it’s a practice. So, just like any form of practice it must have meaning and purpose as this quote suggest. He who has a […]
This may be obvious, but research suggest that athletes who prepare for stress in advance deal with stress better. However, although this is obvious, few coaches actually spend any time teaching coping mechanisms. I would argue the main reason for this gap in the coaching community is knowledge. As the saying goes, you can only […]