It’s a fundamental truth that consistency is a requirement for excellence and routines are a requirement for consistency. Routines require discipline, self-control, and willpower to repeat consistently. This means that routines are not instinctive like habits and require that one pushes themself through some form of friction or pain. When athletes don’t have routines, the […]
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 […]