How Coaches Can Influence their Team’s Performance in Real Time

Coaching is a progressive process that requires patience. Typically, coaching interventions take weeks, if not months to impact a team’s performance. However, in the case of their team’s temporary behaviors that are situational reactions, coaches can influence performance in real time. These temporary behaviors are a product of a team’s mood state.  Research suggests there […]

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Six Mental Skills that Will Separate the Winners and Losers at Super 32

Super 32 is the toughest high school wrestling tournament in the country. In years like this year, there is no arguing this fact. Nearly every athlete who shows up is elite in their local community, has the potential to be elite nationally, and is doing what it takes to be elite physically. In other words, […]

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Aggregating Marginal Gains as a Process to Get Better

Marginal gains are tiny amounts of progress. When you aggregate tiny amounts of progress over time, major improvements happen. At first glance the idea of aggregating marginal gains appears to mirror the idea of progressions. However, although they both provide a process for getting better, the process for each is different. A progression is the […]

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