TEAM / PLAYER PREP IDEA'S & THOUGHTS PART 4

PRESSURE SITUATIONS

– Take a deep breath, say your key words/mantra or focus on something external  

– Find yourself an anchor such as scrunching your nose, clench your fists, lick your lips etc) 

– Find something to bring you back to the present

NEUROMOTOR TRAINING (NELI ALVARAZ)

– Is a specific training isolation of the brain functions according to the movement weakness that is presented without interfering sport tactics

- The fear and recoil test is holding a swissball, closing your eyes and bouncing yourself off the ball and back up onto your feet

- By exposing your body to fear such as height, flight, speed, darkness and falling, you can unleash your potential automatically

- Use trust building exercises in your training

TRAINING (MIKE T NELSON / ANDY EGGERTH / JEFF MOYER / SHAWN MYSZKA / SCOTT SALWASSER / MICHAEL ZWEIFEL)

- Athletes are addicted to the sensation of fatigue and they’ll continue to go the fatigue seeking pathway rather than the performance pathway

- Post activity do some 90/90 and/or belly breathing and have some protein/carbs at some point as insulin blunts the effects of cortisol

- A lactate session on Monday can kill skill development on Tuesday and Wednesday because of lactate shock

- Chase improvement, not capacity

- Sport is problem solving using movement as the solution

- If you’re fast and still get tackled then you’re not a very good decision maker

INDIVIDUALISED TRAINING (STUART MCMILLIAN)

– Understand the athletes gift/what they do best and organise training in such a way to best take advantage of that

TRANSFER (MICHAEL ZWEIFEL)

– Success in practice or clean training is not an indicator of success in competition and is actually a sign that we are not exposing athletes to anxiety and the pressure that comes with competition

- You should regularly struggle and fail at training and it shouldn’t be safe and easy and that's all part of the growth process

- You want as much exposure to this as possible so include it in your warm up by simply adding a stimulus to your warm up drills like shadowing drills

- Doing something predictable over and over again will not help with the unpredictable

- The stimulus and how you perceive it will dictate the motor response so you need to be exposed to context specific stimuli in order to produce the desired motor responses that will occur during sport

- As a coach you didn’t see or feel what a player did when they made a mistake so it’s unwise to correct a movement pattern without first asking why they used it in the first place

- Keep score in training drills to increase anxiety/pressure

- Shadow races

- 3 player chase sprints where the middle player starts in front and then has to go with either of the outside players who go at the same time

TRAINING (FRANK SHAMROCK)

– Follows the system of plus, minus and equal

- Every athlete needs someone better than them to learn from, someone not as good as them so they can teach them and someone equal to challenge them

- Another way you can group your players in training

SELF MANAGEMENT PROCESS (PETER F DRUCKER)

 – Improve player strengths because focusing on weaknesses too much will take a lot of time and energy for a not as good a return

- Know the function of each player (jet vs workhorse), let them know it and put them in positions to display it

TRAINING (ERIC CRESSEY)

– Quality training matters

- Training without coaching has lower upside and more incidences of lower adaptation

- Quality strength and conditioning outcomes are about so much more than just a program or even a good training environment – it’s about hammering home loads of consistent high quality reps to markedly improve your chances of positive movement quality adaptations

- The first input of any stress causes the largest beneficial adaptation

MOTOR CONTROL (GREG DEA)

– Movement variability exists and is a thing but there has to be a cut off point where the movement is unacceptable

- At local/amateur level a wider but still defined bandwidth will keep you in the game and a narrow bandwidth is only required for high levels of competition

COACHING (VICTOR FRADE)

– It is not scripted and players are not told what to do

- They are given a problem and encouraged to solve it for themselves where the process is critically important

COACHING (JOHN O MALLEY)

– Your team will reflect your emotional discipline or lack of it, set standards/pillars before the season starts and when stuff gets messy go back to them

- Pillars are more important than goals as they lead to goals

- Get the right people on the bus and drop the wrong one’s off

- Focus on relationships

- Pressure filled moments/weeks need to be met with normalcy (pillars again)

- Have fun and enjoy the moment

- Control the controllables better than anyone and don’t worry about the uncontrollable

- If you stay between the lines there’s a traffic jam in front of you and it’s always crowded so it might be safer but you won’t really get anywhere