Cam is an NZ HPE scholarship expert having taught HPE scholarship for the last 8 years. He has a Master of Education & is a critical thinking leader in HPE
Practicing your sport more intelligently is often wiser than practicing your sport harder.
How?
-pick specific mini areas to improve (isolate!)
-self-reflect during practice on these areas (meta-cognition)
-gain coach feedback for these areas
-utilise imagery daily
-patience
If the Crystal Palace Academy documentary exposed one thing, it’s that ‘hard work’ is regularly cited as the prime mediator of progress in competitive sport..
In today’s short post, I suggest that, quite simply, it isn’t!
Please have a read 👇🏻
Usually, this account posts suggestions of what teams can/should do in training
Today, we'll post an example of what you shouldn't do
Spurs had such an intense running session that several players collapsed.
There are 3 primary reasons for avoiding this type of training
Liverpool beat Chelsea on penalties in the FA Cup final. A penalty shootout is a psychological game starting with how the manager communicates with his players after the final whistle. Klopp & Tuchel spent those 5 minutes very differently. Here are the events chronologically. 1/9
One of the greatest ever managers doing the absolute sensible thing and asking people with experience around him for advice. The leadership model of the “Manager as Dictator” is outdated. It doesn’t mean he HAS to do what they say btw, it’s about adding another level of insight.
Smart work may be the critical mediator of excellence for ambitious sports competitors. Smart work more so than hard work. Smart practice more so than extended periods of practice.
My ‘Thought of the Day’
https://t.co/2VxzwBZLFf
Julian Nagelsmann & Ralf Rangnick offer a detailed explanation of FC Bayern's tactical philosophy including:
- The expectations when defending
- The use of positional play to control & exploit space
- The strategy of creating overloads in attack
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