It's Sunday..

Be honest,
How are the goals going?
You getting out what you want, putting in what you need?

Our fall seasons are in their final weeks.... it's been enlightening. lots of reflection.

We went back this weekend to spend some time with Coach in Waupun.
We asked some questions last night and here is a lil recap from conditioning to just coaching.. whether or not he realizes it... we need this from him and the other great Coaches we have around us!  For us to be better, we too need some coaching from the greats.
So it went a little like this
(a much more editted version that doesn't include the new vocabulary I was introduced to last night):
What are you doing to make them look like that?  Like Athletes.
They didn't walk in to the season looking like that.  Some, so so, but all, no.
~Everything I am doing with conditioning exists within drills.  Consequences are consistently med ball work and plyo.
Moral of the story: It isn't the motions.  It will never be just going through the motions if you can't align them with the actions they are needed to execute in the game.
Its running, that is consistent with game-like scenarios.
Its lifting in movements that mimic that of short, burts of explosive energy.
*Got it.  We got that one.

Next: So Coach, what's changed?
~In the beginning, it was the constant push to out-coach those in competition.  What can I do to assist my team?  I can out-coach the others in my sport.  That was my push.
Now, we see more of a single-sport player and lose the 'Athlete' perspective.  Growth in the game becomes so much more apparent with multi-sport athletes... they can just out play the single-sport player, because they've worked with enough variety to give them that edge. 
We need athletes. 
(I hear this everyday from another that inspires me.. great minds think alike!)
Do what you need to do to out-coach your competition.
And push your players to be multi-sport athletes.
Bring them with you... the more involved you are the more they see the opportunity you provide for them.

**By the end of the night... which was early.  And which may have led to the 'Are you Serious!!' comment and a shift down on the 'these people are awesome' list. 
It was pretty great to think that a Coach that was possibly ready to step out a few years back, thinking it was time, has brought himself up to, yet again, another level with a team.  No doubt, finding success with the individuals he has surrounding him in his coaching staff, that assists in that enjoyment. 

Pretty awesome to have these kinds of Inspirational People in life...
and I know there isn't a place I go that I don't find this kind of greatness!

Happy Sunday everyone.