The Biggest Coaching Mistakes When Guiding Time-Starved Athletes It is enabling the athlete to appreciate and understand the plan, buy into it, and then be able to self manage.”

(17:07) “Coaching isn't just about writing some magic good plan. The other thing a coach should be able to do, particularly for a time-starved athlete is, through their expertise and experience, help you improve your profile in health, your work performance, and how you show up in life.” Today, Matt takes a closer look at the relationship between the coach and the time-starved athlete to identify the coaching mistakes that often lead to underperformance or an ineffective coaching relationship, along with the keys to fostering a healthy coaching relationship in the pursuit of balance and success in sport and life.Ĭritical Benefits from Leveraging a Successful Coaching Relationship While plenty of coaches are skilled at building training programs anchored in tried and true methodology geared towards high-performance athletes, the question is, do the same approaches and methodologies fit when someone is incredibly time-starved? Whether you're a triathlete, runner, cyclist, parent, or CEO, each role comes with its own unique challenges, making it difficult to stay on course with a training program designed to maximize performance outside the context of your life.

The challenge of every time-starved athlete is finding a balance between the demands of life’s competing non-negotiable priorities, and the pursuit of self-improvement, or peak performance, in sport or fitness. If so, you are experiencing some of the biggest mistakes coaches make when working with the time-starved athlete. Does it sometimes feel like the training you’ve been prescribed doesn’t fit comfortably into your life?ĭoes your training volume have you feeling like a zombie rather than a finely tuned athlete?ĭid your coach still schedule a bike workout even though you made clear notes that you had a work trip with no access to cycling?ĭo you struggle to understand the big picture of your training?ĭoes your coach keep pushing for commitment and focus even though you’re already stretched too thin?

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