To add to Nick's post last week, motivating athletes can be challenging, and part of this challenge includes keeping the workouts fresh and challenging and yet still sport specific and purposeful. Not only do the athlete's need to give 100% to truly benefit from the training, they must also buy into the philosophy and planning of the trainer.
A few methods we use at U-District to keep workouts fresh include:
- Making drills into competitions, and challenging our athletes to beat their own personal records as well as records set by other athletes that train at U-District.
- Format the workout as a circuit so that the athlete is constantly working, yet the exercises continuously change.
- Add a sport specific aspect to an exercise, for example doing sit-up headers for soccer, balance passes for basketball and volleyball, ladder drills with shooting for both basketball or soccer, etc.
Mixing things up in a workout, creating competition, and introducing little variations to certain exercises are a good way to keep athletes challenged and focused.
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