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season accomplishing hard tasks builds confidence in both
individuals and teams. This earned confidence is essential
for competitive success during the season. "
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BE REAL. Communicate with the athletes by
being genuinely you. Don't think you have to copy
someone else's style, develop your own authentic style.
Athletes are quick to recognize a copycat, and they won't
respect you if you're fake. If you have a real passion for
being a team strength and conditioning coach, you'll
find joy in speaking to groups of athletes. If speaking to
groups is uncomfortable for you then you may be better
suited for small teams or individual coaching.
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BE MOTIVATED TO DO YOUR JOB! You must be
personally motivated and love what you're doing to
authentically motivate and influence others! Have energy,
and be a positive energy giver because you're working
with young athletes and they're feeding off your energy.
BE CREATIVE. Creativity is a large part of being
an excellent coach. Athletes and coaches admire
creativity as long as it's developmentally productive.
Always test your creative ideas on yourself or a
colleague before implementing them into your athletes'
program.
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BE FOCUSED. An excellent strength coach knows his
focus is helping the athletes develop and supporting
the team culture. CSCCa special advisor and previous twotime
SEC strength coach of the year recipient Rob Oviatt
said, " On the best teams, the head sport coach's message,
needs to be everyone's message. There is one unified
voice, with one unified focused vision. " If your focus is on
helping others get better, it can't help but make you better.
BE EFFICIENT. Don't waste the athletes' and/or
coaches' time with fluff and meaningless activities and
information. Everything you ask the athletes to do needs
to have a proven purpose, and you should be confident
explaining that purpose. The most influential strength and
conditioning coaches, like those I've quoted above, are
excellent at uniting their strength & power training sessions
with character-building activities, and they make their
conditioning sessions team-building productions. Those
coaches are masterful at enforcing and building team
culture around their well-designed and effective programs -
something every head coach and athlete desires.
The eight skills I've spoken about are by no means an
exhaustive list, but they are eight I've utilized with great
success over the years, and I believe if you implement them
into your professional repertoire you will have success with
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