When it comes to teaching athletes mental skills, self-awareness must be among the first priorities for coaches. Moreover, to teach self-awareness you must have a baseline. Athletes must know where they are to know where they need to go. Therefore, coaches must start the teaching process with a self-awareness test. Before I talk about the […]
Scientifically, research suggest that athletes who practice more will be better than athletes who practice less. Pop-culture sums this up as the 10,000-hour rule of thumb. But you don’t need scientific research to understand this do you? It seems rather obvious that an athlete who practices more will be better than an athlete who practices less, […]
There is an old quote that says that 80% of success is showing up. While this may be true in some things in life, it’s definitely not true for athletes. For athletes, I would reword this quote. Instead of “showing up” being 80% of success, I would say “defining success” is 80% of success. If […]