Category: Coaching Lessons

  • How often do we confuse Motion with progress?

    Tweet from @LeaderQuote: ‘Don’t confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but doesn’t make any progress’ – Alfred Montapert How often in coaching and sport performance do we confuse the two concepts as mentioned by Alfred Motapert? I sometimes think more often than not. It is so easy as a coach to see…

  • Coaching Lesson # 1 – DMC (Deep Meaningful Conversation)

    “Coach we need to have a DMC!” Well I looked at this 18year old male swimmer of mine and wondered, ‘what on earth is a DMC’. Think he saw my bewilderdness, so he proceeded to inform me what a DMC was / is – “A deep meaningful conversation, coach!” Well I had learnt something new,…