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Be Your Best - Have a dream
Today’s youth athlete
Today’s youth least fit in history
Over 30% of kids overweight
Phys Ed declining in schools
More kids in sports, yet kids less fit
T H E R E S U L T
Injury rates at all time high
3 million sports related injuries each year
70% drop out of organized sports by High School
Interesting facts about teens
• One in ___ teens admit to abusing medications that
were not prescribed to them
• ____% of high school aged teens have considered
committing suicide
• The average teen sends _____ text messages a month
• ____% of teens admit to being bullied
• ____% of teens say their parents are more into their
high school sports then they are
• The average parent has under ___ minutes of
meaningful conversation with their teens each week
Most deadly disease
Heart Disease
Cancer
Diabetes
Low Self Esteem
Suicide is the third leading cause of death of young persons aged 10-24
What is self-esteem?
Belonging Belonging CompetenceCompetence WorthWorth
Overcoming challenges
• Born in 1940 in Clarksville, TN
• 20th of 22 children
• Measles, mumps, scarlet fever,
chicken pox, double pneumonia
• Polio in 1947
Thinking outside the box
Using one line, make this Roman numeral a 6
IX
(101-102=1) Make this equation true by moving 1 digit?
Career Statistics
Yards Avg TDs
18,355 4.2 164
Source: NFL.com
Emmett Smith
Evaluation = Motivation™
Measuring an athletes’
current level of
performance and fitness
is the first step toward
motivating them to
improve performance
and self-confidence
Get your athletes excited about
the right strategies
Paradigm Shift
Fixed mindset vs. growth mindset
Growth
Mindset Fixed
Mindset
Carol Dweck, Mindset , New Psychology of Success
Rapport building – self confidence
• Self confidence:
� Increases when athlete feels
in control
� Can’t control score,
outcome, starting position
� Focus on mastery
Create a mastery environment….
Athletes feel more in control & come back
What 3 words
separate good coaches
from great coaches?
The power of influence
Successful or Significant?
John Wooden
Vince Lombardi
Mike Rice
Fall In Love With Your Coaching Style
Is it about you or the athlete you are training?
Athlete You
You have to believe you can
Change the world
Become a master communicator
You get what you expect...
Act as if…Enthusiasm
Rapport building is about building trust
It takes repeated
interaction and
connections with
athlete before you
make a
connection
Rapport building – components of
communication
Not only what you say,
but how you say it
•55% physiology
•38% tone-of-voice
•7% words
Building rapport– asking questions
• Start with positives:
� Good to see you
� You are looking good today
� Congratulate on recent successes or last session
• Ask safe questions:
� How are things going?
� How are your friends doing these days?
� What practices / games do you have coming up?
� Ask about their family, other interests,
favorite shows, pets
• Ask open-ended questions:
� Ask about their goals and progress
� Don’t accept “fine”
� Explore “how” and “why”
Recruiting
Increase awareness in the community by
reaching out to the “Spheres of Influence”
Principle #1: Make it fun,
challenging & safe
Principle #2: Teach them how to
warm-up
Principle #3: Teach them to master technique
Paradigm
Shift
Paradigm
Shift
Intensity of
Movement
Quality of
Movement
Intensity of
Movement
Quality of
Movement
Principle #4: Teach them strength
Principle #5: Teach them recovery
Be an authority
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