Preparing your team for battle is the leader’s primary purpose. Conditioning is a major part of all sports. Vince Lombardi said: “Fatigue makes cowards of us all.” Training your body and mind for the competition you will face is the best way to combat fatigue. In the sports world, this requires a tremendous amount of…
Play With Purpose
How to get the most out of your team. Compete with a meaningful purpose in mind. Not only for a tangible goal, but something bigger. It’s your heart and soul’s desire. It’s the substance of all dreams. Life is filled with competition, adversity, detours, twists and turns — a roller coaster of emotions. To get…
Your Most Dangerous Mission
Most competitors can give their best in battle once, but it takes a real warrior to do it again and again. The most dangerous missions are those when you cannot identify your enemy. We have however, found the real opponent and it is ourselves. When you cross the lines into your field of battle, carry…
Invisible Progress
Progress is being made even though it is not seen Often the bottom line — or in the coaching world, wins and losses — don’t tell the whole story. Coaching staff changes are made by head coaches and in increasingly faster fashion. When results aren’t immediately evident someone is going to pay the price. As…
Coaches Don’t Have Hobbies
Most coaches are extremely passionate about their work and really love what they do. The coaching profession is a demanding, stressful, grueling grind of long hours, sometimes tedious work, and little free time. Professional coaches will be working 7 days a week about 16 hours a day from August until February. Because it requires such…