If you are a parent of a young athlete who only works hard when you push them to work hard, then self-motivation must be your #1 priority. They may be a youth sports star, but if they don’t love their sport enough to train hard without you pushing them, they will eventually burnout. Before you […]
All high school athletes who get the opportunity to play in college are elite high school athletes. However, all college athletes are not elite college athletes. In other words, what it takes to get the opportunity to play sports in college is not the same as what it takes to seize that opportunity. To be […]
It’s frustrating to coach an athlete who dreams to play in college, go to the Olympics, or go pro but doesn’t show the work ethic to back this up. I call this having million-dollar dreams with five-dollar habits. The go to method to motivate these athletes is to use rewards and punishments to try to […]