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Winning
It’s not the workout that wins…you have to win the workout.
One of the greatest myths in sport is that it is the workout that wins.
That is, that the secret to sporting success lies in how you manipulate volume, intensity and frequency.
Coaches spend years and years crafting their workouts, building invincible programs and creating the perfect combination of work and rest that will deliver them and their athletes the success they dream of.
And it is largely a myth.
It is not the workout that wins…you have to win the workout. Read more
December 6, 2011 | 2 Comments
Tags: Coaching, High Performance, Performance Psychology, Winning
Responsibility for Performance in Professional Football: Where the Buck Stops!
Whether teams win or lose, people want to know who is responsible.
Just take a look at the after match interviews.
The media want to talk to the players who were responsible for scoring the winning goal, the winning try, the incredible touchdown that won the game or the unbelievable conversion kicked from the sideline, while the final siren was blowing, in the pouring rain with a hostile crowd chanting “miss-miss”.
The media want to talk to the coach and ask why the team lost and to find out who was responsible for the lack of effort, lack of energy, poor execution of team strategies, poor skill execution under pressure, the missed tackle and the blown opportunity.
And it continues over the year to the end of season review process where people aim to pin responsibility for the team’s poor record on one person, one system, one coach, one player, one aspect of preparation…….
Professional football is very much about responsibility, so let’s try and clarify who exactly is responsible for performance in professional football: where the buck stops. Read more
September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Tags: AFL, American Football, Coaching, Football, High Performance, Hockey, Netball, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, sport, Sports coaching, Sports leadership, Sports Management, sports science, Training
The W – Word: Winning.
I am getting so sick of people talking about high performance environments, about following a process, about systems, about structures, about programs, about initiatives, about workshops and about strategies.
The name of the game is Winning – oops – there I said it.
Winning. Winning. Winning. There, I said it again.
That felt great. I’ll say it some more. Winning. Winning. Winning. Winning.
That felt so good I’ll do it again. Winning!! Winning!!!! Winning!!!!!
The W Word: Winning. Read more
October 11, 2010 | 8 Comments
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