Shortly after I wrote Coaches doing “what works”, an article got here up on my LinkedIn feed. It did so as a result of Munciana’s Mike Lingenfelter, who I interviewed for Volleyball Teaching Wizards, had left a remark. The writer supposed the article as a narrative about management. And it’s a great story from that perspective.
Me being who I’m, nonetheless, I couldn’t assist however latch on to a part of the story.
As we obtained nearer to the USA Olympic Nationwide Championships, we’d be pushed to our restrict power and conditioning sensible – we must SPRINT up the whole ski hill, and the end result of our coaching would finish with 3 full ski hills IN A ROW. Really torturous!
For those who learn my publish about volleyball gamers operating the mile, you would possibly guess my response to having a crew do ski hill sprints.
Why the BLEEP would you do ski hill sprints!?!?
Primarily based on their description as “torturous”, these weren’t brief hills. So we’re speaking about actions that aren’t consistent with the vitality calls for of our sport. There may be justification for them at different factors (I’ll depart that to the professionals within the area to say). Actually that’s not proper earlier than your largest competitors, nonetheless.
And but, as a result of that crew was so profitable, there will likely be those that latch on to this coaching technique considering that by some means it’s a driver of that crew’s success. It might even be a few of these gamers who transfer into teaching who accomplish that (or as leaders and/or mother and father). It’s the type of misattribution and “regardless of” factor I talked about within the prior publish.
I do know some readers of this can throw out the camaraderie improvement angle. By that I imply the concept that joint battle produces group cohesion. It may possibly definitely occur, which is a part of the explanation I mentioned these sprints may be helpful at a unique a part of the 12 months. A bit too late when you’re doing it proper earlier than nationwide championships.
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