Grand Finals are won above the neck and here's some more pointers on winning the psychological battle against yourself and assisting your players to do the same.
- Players might looked gassed but they might actuallybe freaking out mentally as they are unprepared for the gravity of the moment and all their senses and thus, output, heightens dramatically
- Situations that on the surface might appear to be fitness problems but aren’t, might really be your team going down a man in the 1st few mins (anxiety), a player on debut (nerves), getting scored on early in the match (panic), the tempo of the match exceeding expectations (perception of effort) or bad tactics (opposition has advantages in various scenarios aiding their ability to build up/disturb your build up/exploit transitions)
- If you want to improve a players ability to make correct decsion making actions from the middle of the last quarter to the end of the game, then you need to agree on the goal (improvement/the maintenance of pressing actions from min 100 – 120) + you also need to determine the limiting factor (Is endurance ability too low?, Is communication poor? Are your tactics not as sharp as they need to be? Are you pressing at the wrong time? Are you making the wrong decisions? Do you lack aerobic capacity? Do you lack repeat speed? Are you pressing too hard when you need to corrall and vice versa putting you out of position and thus forcing to expend more energy resources to recover your position? Is your pre-game nutrition poor?
- Whatever the factors are you need to pinpoint which one's are the fartherest behind (vo2max might be only be average to good but you're also not eating pre-game
- There always seems like there’s so much to improve on but you need to choose what you’re NOT going to do
- Everything can help but what’s going to help right now?
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