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February, 2011
High Performance on a Budget – can you create a high performance environment without spending any money?
When clients ask me to work with them, it is usually to help them become the best they can be in one or both of these two areas:
1. Help them to create a sustainable winning culture and / or:
2. Help them to create a world class high performance environment, (i.e. the things you can build and buy).
Although most of the time I get to work with professional sports and elite level Olympic teams, I am regularly asked to work with schools, amateur sporting clubs and part time coaches on a range of performance related issues, athlete attitudes, motivation techniques, leadership development, coach development exercises and sports performance enhancement programs.
Recently a client from an amateur but highly successful sporting Club asked me, “Wayne, we hear what you say about the best high performance environments in the world and about tools like GPS systems, ice baths, recovery centres, the latest video analysis systems and having a sports medicine team available 24 / 7. But we are all part timers. We gladly donate our time to coach the team and we have to fit our coaching around our jobs and our family. Our budget is minimal. Can we still create an effective high performance environment without spending any money?”
Yes, you can. Read more
February 21, 2011 | 7 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Baseball, Basketball, Cricket, Football, Gymnastics, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Sports Management, Swimming, Tennis, Training
Sports Psycho-physiology: The Way Forward in Successful Coaching and Sports Performance.
Want to know about the latest breakthrough in thinking in sport?
Want to learn about how to coach more effectively and get more out of every training session?
Want to hear how to enhance the performance of your athletes?
Here it is: the latest thing – Psycho-physiology (more specifically sports psycho-physiology): The way forward in successful coaching and sports performance.
And guess what?
This revolutionary breakthrough in sports performance is so new that it has only been around for 5000 years….. Read more
February 21, 2011 | 6 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Olympic Games, Olympics, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, sport, Sports coaching, sports science, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon
Good to Great – Ten Qualities of Excellence in Coaching (and life)
Go from Good to Great in Ten Easy Steps???
The Good to Great part is easy………it’s writing about it in Ten Easy Steps that’s the hard bit! Read more
February 18, 2011 | 2 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Basketball, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Soccer, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon
End of Season Performance Reviews – Making a difference or Making a mistake
Spring is the season of re-newal, re-birth and re-generation.
And for many Australian sports – AFL, Rugby League, Netball and Rugby – spring is also the season of the Performance Re-view.
That time when players, coaches, management and staff sit down together and try to work out what went wrong, what went right and how to do it better next time around.
How do you make certain your end of season Performance Review makes real difference to next season and is not a waste of time, energy and money?
February 18, 2011 | 2 Comments
Tags: AFL, Cricket, Football, High Performance, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union
Don’t Count the Repeats:Make the Repeats Count.
I know, I know, I know.
This sounds like an advertisement for a new sporting product or new piece of sporting training equipment…the sporting equivalent of the “knife that cuts through a shoe” or the “miracle mop” that does everything around the house including walking the dog, cooking dinner and putting the kids to bed.
But no….this is serious. You can achieve More with Less…this is how to do Less but get a Better result. Read more
February 18, 2011 | 6 Comments
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Coach education, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, sport, Sports coaching, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon
