Do you push your athletes to higher levels or make excuses for them?

Is it Ok if your athletes miss workouts or miss reps because they are tired?

Is it Ok if your athletes show up a minute late or don't record their loads accurately?

Is it acceptable if your athlete doesn't follow the program strictly because they don't feel like it?

Are you raising the bar for your athletes or bringing it down so they can achieve?

You as a coach have a personal responsibility to make your athletes better. 

Better can be in different ways...it can be physically, it can be emotionally, it can be mentally, it can spiritually, and it can be socially. 

Most of us as coaches, focus on the physical part but need to understand how we prescribe our training sessions, the environment we create, and how we hold our athletes accountable play a big part into making them better mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and socially.

For our athletes to achieve more in sport and in life, we as coaches need to raise the bar. 

Meaning we need to hold our athletes to a higher standard.

We need to try and get them to believe in achieving more and not settling.

We need to get them to understand how they think will effect how they perform.

We need to get them to understand that every little thing matters.

We need to get them to understand that not everything is going to go their way and it's up to them to decide how to respond to the situation.

We need to get them to understand that if they have desire, effort, intensity and do it consistently that more times than not, they will be successful.

Are you raising the bar or bringing it down?

If you are raising the bar for your athletes; are you raising the bar for yourself?