Next Module – Specificity

[Timothy Caron]

We got an absolute savage module coming up with Specificity. I really enjoyed this one, I hope you guys like it. I have been really in a head space of facility design and talked a lot about what a facility looks like and what you can do from a general to specific level

[Corey Hobbs]

Thought you hit on a really important idea in the principles podcast. There are a lot of really bad conditioning tests out there, but these coaches have been doing them forever, and they probably see a new S&C coach every few years. If we’re to come in and try to completely overhaul everything we’re going to lose them. They’ll probably just think that we can’t. But, if we can build trust and show we can effectively, and safely get everyone to pass that test the conversation can naturally flow to “can we do better?”.

[Timothy Caron]

Its just simple understanding the dynamics around the reasons why something is done the way it is.

We get so lost in what we want to do, we rarely ask why we do it in the first place. I get it is hard, and I am just as much a victim of this, but if we fail to consider the reason behind something we are no better than the person that institutes archaic methods.

Working from a common understanding is easily one of the most underrated skills someone can develop.

[Corey Hobbs]

Absolutely. It’s hard because we want to leave a mark on an organization and get immediate results we know will benefit the group. But slow playing things and building that buy-in is going to have larger downstream effects.

[Corey Hobbs]

Interesting take looking at ourselves as a [fill in the blank] coach that specializing in S&C. Obviously it lends itself really well if we work with one sport. Any thoughts on how coaches can effectively do this while juggling multiple teams? It’s going to be challenging to be at every practice or competition for each team, but clearly there’s still value in being able to leverage that sport specific type work.

[Timothy Caron]

I think that is where you have to work with the coaches and the athletes. Its a matter of trust with everyone to execute on a bunch of things all at once. The important thing is to value how to execute on making something more relevant to the primary task of making them better at their sport.

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