GOOOOOOD mooorning 🌅 @RAYSswimming
Great to be home 💚💙
Nothing better to start the trip w/
🏊🏼♂️ 6x
100 Max Effort swim 1:30
75 MAX Effort Kick on 1:30
50 choice on 1:30
A loss is one of the hardest things for any coach or leader to process.
But we can do irreparable damage to our teams and ourselves by acting on emotion and saying the wrong thing.
Bill Walsh had 7 “Don’ts” after defeat — and they’re relevant for any leader:
There's a trend playing out in coaching that we need to be paying attention to.
Good coaches are quitting, preferring to walk away than put themselves and their families through the lifestyle.
Sports should be the bastion of leadership, not the industry leaders are fleeing.
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Early specialisation in sport is poor preparation for the peak performance years. Early development is not about performance it’s about experiencing multiple skills and learning to learn as a foundation for secialist performance in the peak performance years
I wish Denver understood this. STILL no resolution for the 18th street elevators. Leaving open till 10pm is NOT a legal solution!!! I do NOT need a curfew. it’s Discrimination!!!!!!! #Ada#discrimination#wheelchair#wheelchairlife@denverpost
Don’t get so lost in extension/posterior chain that you forget the importance of flexion/anterior chain
It’s efficient and powerful flexion that drives powerful triple extension
Besides, when do we ever get direct flexion work in the weight room?
Not as much as we should…
1) The most sought after skill in coaching:
Effective practice design.
Coaches spend lots of time and 💰💰 attending courses but they do a terrible job teaching it
Here are 5 practice design principles that will save you hundreds of hours
"I was under pressure" is not an excuse for toxic behavior.
Being stressed doesn't justify hostility. It's not your responsibility to absorb their pain.
Being busy doesn't license incivility. No one's calendar is too full to be respectful.
Most acts of kindness cost nothing.
@imcatnoone 2/2 Toxic work culture is so dangerous - It stays with us. What is survival in one org becomes a barrier to success in the next. We self-protect out of habit + necessity. Given the data of how many people are coming out of these cultures, we need to onboard and talk about it.