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Athlete Learning Styles: A Must-Have for your Coaching Toolbox
Have you ever noticed how some athletes “get” instructions immediately, while for others it takes a while for things to click? If you’re involved in coaching this is something you’ve had to deal with on numerous occasions. Many Coaches develop their own ways of working with their athletes learning styles and having a well-proven framework can be extremely useful. We understand all athletes are unique and cannot be coached in exactly the same way because as athletes (and people in general) everyone has their own unique way of learning.
Control and Influence Model in Sport
At some point in time most athletes have been (or should be) exposed to the Control and Influence Model also known as the Circle of Concern and Circle of Influence. This model is taken from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, a fantastic book which we highly recommend.
Prevent Choking in Sport using Holistic Word Cues
This article delves into more depth on how choking can be prevented at the highest level of sport and how can you ensure you “make it happen”.
Training and Competition: What to do when your athletes don’t perform?
This article was written during national team selection time for one of our clients. It reminded me of how I felt during my own selection for various national and Olympic teams, and inspired me to share the most important lessons I learnt about the connection between training and competition. This article is about techniques to help athletes control their nerves so they can compete at least as well as they train, if not better. At the end of this article, I’ve also included my top three coaching tips for helping athletes manage their nerves during competition.
Improve Athlete Resiliency – 6 Tips for Coaches
No one will ever forget seeing Greg Louganis recover from his poorly executed 2½ pike preliminary dive in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Greg dove and struck his head bleeding into the water. Although he had obviously suffered an injury, he went on to earn the highest single score of the qualifying. He then went on to repeat the dive during the finals, earning the gold medal by a margin of 25 points.
Crucial Conversations: For Talking When Stakes Are High
Crucial Conversations A quality book on a topic that everyone in sport needs to deal with – it is a must-have on every sports coaches’ bookshelf (and ideally well read!). In sport, stakes are often incredibly high and it is these times that miss-handling the situation can be extremely costly. This book provides a ‘how-to’ guide for success in any conflict.
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
Nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Click here to buy The Boys in the Boat now. Why
GOLF The Ultimate Mind Game by Rick Sessinghaus
GOLF The Ultimate Mind Game is not only for golfers. What we love about this book is that it takes sport psychology principles, explains them in plain English and gives relevant examples of the application. Few sport psychology books can claim this. While obviously all of the examples are golf examples, it is very easy for you to extend the content to your own sport. If you’ve been hesitant to learn more about sport psychology or previously put it in the ‘too hard basket’, this book will very simply and effectively teach you more than enough to make a step change in your program.
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
An unlikely book for our recommended list but a client recommended it to us and when we read the Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, we all really enjoyed it. Very little about sport directly but some great gems within that you’ll be interested to know and keen to implement. (Click here to read the article that we refer to The Checklist Manifesto book.) More for the avid reader than someone looking to build their knowledge on sport and coaching, but if you have any family or friends in the medical industry – it is a must-read for them.