Every year I feel like I gain so much great information from attending live seminars, reading great books, conversing with top notch coaches and practicing my craft. This year I learned something by just being a coach. I think it is something that a lot of coaches struggle with in their pursuit of making the perfect program. If you have not dealt with this yet I assure you, you will at one point in your career.
Let’s see what could lead us down the road of frustration if we expect everything to run perfectly all the time. One, your athletes do not show up on time. So what do you cut out of the program? Two, you have a new athlete show up for a group training session. A quick screen can only tell you so much about the ability this athlete has. Three, an athlete does not understand why they have to do a certain exercise. This will help them develop speed and power, but they do not want to list about why an exercise is good for them. Four, unfortunately some “athletes” do not want to train. It might be because they do not want to do hard work, their parents make them participate even though they have zero desire to do so or a number of other facts. Five, the KISS acronym, keep it simple stupid. It is so much fun making big fancy programs and then staring at them in their glory and that’s about the end of it. Every when dealing with advanced high school, college and even professional athletes stick to the basics. There is no reason to make things so complicated that your athletes are asking questions on every movement.
There it is, five tips for dealing with things never being perfect. Do not get me wrong I am always in a pursuit to make things the best they can be, but I am ok with things not being perfect all the time.