![]() Keeping education modern - what does this mean and look like? But when coaches and players get together and see the mental fatigue built from the monotony of practice as a joint problem…then perhaps inventive solutions can be better found. They can learn to love the challenges daily practice throws at them as the season unfolds. No doubt sports participants and competitors have human agency. ensuring different players have their voice heard during training (a variety of viewpoints may be a healthy way to analyse the quality and content of training) incorporating new activities and games in training sessions shifting group goals and individual objectives Perhaps the simplest way to do this is through a collaborative approach between players and coaches (note: simple but not easy!) Rather than a few coaches brainstorming ideas to keep newness a priority, how about a few coaches and a number of players exploring ways to manage staleness. Novelty is eye-catching and fresh ideas can spark and excite nervous systems. But it’s also incumbent on coaches (at least at the very elite end of sport) to find solutions to the human propensity to attenuate to the same daily habits that are required for sporting excellence. Sure, it’s important for players to be able to weave a narrative and set of behaviours that enables them to practice and play through fatigue and boredom, through monotony and similarity. I think this can be a negotiation between coaches and players. It’s a short clip of LA Dodgers manager Dave Rodgers speaking to the challenge of maintaining motivation throughout a season - a season that can involve repetition, a season that can be energy sapping, a season that will (likely) involve ups and downs. If you get a minute have a watch of the video below. “Find out how to love practice every single day…”
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