High Performance Sport
High Performance Sport: What are the “non – negotiables?”
There seems to be a high performance program or high performance system in every country in the world….but what is high performance sport?
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You Can’t Buy a Football Premiership.
By Wayne Goldsmith
Read the title of this article.
Now read it again.
Read it one more time.
Now, just to be sure you get it – You can’t buy a football premiership!
Here’s why.
Many, Many Football Clubs all over the world in all codes have tried to “buy” a premiership over the years. In fact one the main reasons some football codes have put a salary cap in place is to ensure one club can not “buy” a premiership by recruiting the majority of the best players available.
However, if the Football Administrators did their homework and studied their history, they would realise putting a salary cap in place to stop one team dominating a competition is unnecessary – you just simply can’t buy a football premiership. (more…)
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Olympic Mistakes: The Top Five Dumb Things Athletes and Coaches do heading into an Olympic Games.
Lots of athletes go to the Olympic Games – very, very few come back with a medal or even a personal best performance.
Why?
Lack of Talent? Maybe.
Poor Skill? Possibly.
The wrong parents, i.e. Genetics? Could be.
But the main reason most of them don’t win a medal is that they made five dumb (and avoidable) mistakes in the period between their selection for the Olympic team and their Olympic Games competition.
Olympic Mistakes: The Top Five Dumb Things Athletes and Coaches do heading into an Olympic Games. (more…)
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The Performance Clock – The Most Important Concept in High Performance Sport.
I often get asked, what’s the difference between sport and high performance sport.
Read the next 800 words and find out.
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End of Season Performance Reviews – Making a difference or Making a mistake
Spring is the season of re-newal, re-birth and re-generation.
And for many Australian sports – AFL, Rugby League, Netball and Rugby – spring is also the season of the Performance Re-view.
That time when players, coaches, management and staff sit down together and try to work out what went wrong, what went right and how to do it better next time around.
How do you make certain your end of season Performance Review makes real difference to next season and is not a waste of time, energy and money?
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Motivation….aint no such thing
By Wayne Goldsmith
Coaches are always talking about motivation and some make lots of money doing motivation talks, motivation lectures, giving motivational speeches, writing motivational books, selling motivational videos, running motivational courses and generally being motivational!
Here’s the funny thing: motivation – there’s no such thing.