High Performance Sport

High Performance on a Budget – can you create a high performance environment without spending any money?

As soon as someone mentions the words “high-performance” in sport, people start running for their cheque books and credit cards. The most commonly held view about high-performance sport is that you need significant investment and resources to run a successful high performance sports program. However, money alone does not guarantee success in high performance sport and almost any coach or Club can create a sustainable high performance environment by targeting and prioritising their resources on the right things at the right time. This article discusses how to prioritise in high performance sport and how to target the things that matter: the things that will make a difference where it really matters….the performance of your athletes

By Wayne Goldsmith, ago

The High Performance Sport Checklist – Part Two of the List of 50 Things you Must be doing to Succeed in High Performance Sport.

Score Key: 0-10: High performance sport is not for you. Maybe try your hand at pavement painting or hole digging or grass mowing or something else which does not require the consistent application of excellence. 11-20: You might dream about being high performance and talk about being high performance, but Read more…

By Wayne Goldsmith, ago

The Performance Clock and Coaching

The aim is to create a sustainably successful high performance environment and to always be competitive. Winning once can be a matter of luck. Sustainable competitiveness comes from good planning, good management, vision, creativity, innovation and hard work.
The Performance Clock explains why athletes, coaches and teams fail to sustain competitiveness and how you can avoid the traps and pitfalls inherent in the cycle of sports performance.

By Wayne Goldsmith, ago