On the one hand, some coaches will say you can’t teach a young athlete to work hard. These coaches believe the will to grind hard is something you either have or you don’t. That grinding hard is an innate characteristic embedded in your DNA. Other coaches will say young athletes who lack talent grind harder than athletes […]
It’s a fact that a person’s true potential is impossible to know. It’s also a fact that the longer, harder, and more focus you put into improving something, the more you will improve. Given that, optimizing potential is a product of one’s capacity to grind. By grind I mean toil for long hours with focus […]
Youth wrestling coaches knowing what to say to an anxious wrestler vs. an apathetic wrestler can help in one particular aspect of their job. It basically comes down to the most cliché moment in all of sports. Yes, it’s that moment when a coach attempts to give a motivational speech. I say attempt because although […]