The average coach spends less than 5% of any given high school practice on developing mental skills. This means that during a typical 2-hour practice, a coach may spend about 6 minutes on mental skills. Even with those 6 minutes, coaches only touch the surface of the mental side of sports. Typically, the most that […]
Some athletes work harder than others. There is no debating this. However, are the athletes who don’t work their hardest lazy? Well, it depends on your perspective. If you view the concept of lazy through the lens of a personality trait, then you might view an athlete who doesn’t work hard as lazy. On the […]
One of the most important jobs of a coach is motivation. When an athlete is struggling with motivation, a coach’s first instinct is to step in and offer an external motivator to kick-start the athlete’s motivation. Most coaches will either default to a carrot or a stick depending on their coaching style. However, the problem […]