Skill Sets
- Recognize the unique physiological demands of your sport(s)
- Recognize the individual athlete and position
- Understand the 24 hour rule
- Identify key growth and development markers during adolescence
- Develop a season long training program
- Understand the importance of pre and post game warm up's and cool down
- Identify the critical training factors related to injury prevention
- Provide a safe environment
- Minimize the chance of injury
- Optimize physical development
- Understand the fundamental concepts of your sport movement
- Apply training method
- How and when to replenish energy systems
Coaches sometimes tend to be one sided in terms of knowing sport skill and performance science.
We either excel at the technical and tactical demands but lack the basic understanding for sports science. The other side of the coin is the conditioning coach is so well versed in gym science they fail to understand the coaching demands for the athlete in their respective sport.
As we can see coaching demands a wide variety of skill sets, it also demands that coaches get out of the comfort zone and learn to converse with each other. It also demands trust and respect of each others craft, checking the ego, with the main focus to be on long term athletic development in sports and building relationships.
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