Tag: Mental Skills
What are you afraid of?
Throughout most of our lives, we respond to our fears by placing them into the category of “I’m afraid of”, “I’m afraid of using...
Young athletes are getting less skillful
When learning a new sport-specific skill, an athlete’s success relies heavily on their existing level of ‘movement literacy’. In other words, how quickly and...
Opportunity Cost of Choice
Opportunity cost is what you sacrifice when you choose one option over another. And we face an abundance of choices every day.
What should my...
It means more when there’s a ‘why’
Too often do we get caught up in the content. We believe that simply knowing more ‘stuff’ is what's important. Or that just by putting more information in front of our...
What can we learn from skateboarding?
No coach. No rules. No scheduled training sessions. Yet hours of purposeful practice. Why?
Part of the beauty of coaching early morning training sessions is...
Goal setting. Are you doing it right?
Setting goals is easy. All you need to do is to decide what it is you really want and write it down. The hard...
5 minutes late, again.
“But coach, it’s only 5 minutes, I slept in.” You’re right, it is only five minutes. Is punctuality really that important?
The thing is that...
3 Ways to Better Engage with your Athletes
1. Always greet your athletes with an open ear
We’re often so invested in getting the content of our session out that we treat our...
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5 Reasons Why Competition is Good (and bad) for your Child
What does the word ‘competition’ bring to mind? Is all competition a good thing? How do you distinguish between helpful competition and that which...
50 Questions Every Youth Athlete Should Ask Themselves
Asking good questions is an excellent way to assess your performance and become more in tune with what to focus on to get better.
At...
Implementing a set programme into your swim sessions
Training sets and fitness goals are a great way to improve your current swimming ability. More often than not, I see people swimming lap...
Weight training and cardio – together or separate?
Which should I do first - cardio or weights? Is doing cardio better than lifting weights for me? These are two questions I’ve found...
How to use fins in your swim training
When you are at the pool you might see people in the water using a range of equipment, and wonder what the benefits are...
