If you are a serious sports parent like me, it’s quite easy to go overboard with coaching after your child loses. Sometimes this is helpful, most times it’s not. However, the fact is, parents who love sports just can’t help themselves. So, here is a word of caution and a tip to make your unwanted […]
It’s common to hear parents and coaches tell young athletes after they lose that there’s no such thing as failure, only learning. Of course, this sounds good, but it isn’t a factual statement. The reality is when you aren’t ready to learn, failure is just failure. When an athlete fails by making the same exact […]
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, […]