The Happy Wrestler vs. The Satisfied Wrestler

One of my favorite semantic arguments is happiness vs. satisfaction. Today I’m going to use this semantic nuance to make a point about putting youth wrestlers in the right environment for their personality type. Happy Wrestlers Happy wrestlers are those who are driven by being on a team with friends. They love going to practice […]

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Three Methods to Help Athletes Who Are Dominated by their Ego

Yesterday I wrote about the basics of goal perspective theory. In short, there are two perspectives: task orientation and ego orientation. Furthermore, athletes who have a ego orientation don’t perform well when facing difficult challenges. With this in mind, there are three basic methods to help athletes who let their ego dominate their performance. 1) […]

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Four Ways Youth Wrestlers Can ‘Level Up’ in the Off-Season

My favorite blogger Seth Godin is always encouraging his readers to level up. His encouragement in this area has been a tremendous influence in my life. Godin believes that it’s imperative that we all use our time to “level up” instead of doing things that don’t matter. Unfortunately, the majority of people stay busy doing […]

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