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Glenn Devey
There's a difference between a coach and a trainer. The end result is largely the same, but the journey along the way is different. Both are essential ingredients in a world class vertical training plan, and we're going to look at how to incorporate more coaching into your schedule. Before we start, we should define the term coaching in a little more detail; the International Institute of Coaching say: "Sports Coaching is a collaborative, solution-focused, results-oriented, systematic and enlightening process in which the coach is working is one particular aspect of the Client's life and that is to help the Client develop their sports skills. Sports Coaching covers every type of sport." Coaching assumes a fair degree of established knowledge and skill in the player and instead of the coach taking the role of expert, the coach assumes that the player has all the answers within themselves and will instead concentrate on creating the right environment for them to surface. You may be aware that Tiger Woods works with a coach instead of a trainer. Anyone think they can tell Tiger how to do it better? The solutions focused approach works particularly well in sports and basketball is no exception. A traditional problem-orientated approach concentrates on what's wrong with a player's technique, what the root cause of that error is and eventually how to fix the problem. A solutions focus flips that on it's head by identifying what the player already does well, and encouraging them to do more of it. Here are seven solutions-focused coaching questions that you can use right now to gain some personal insight and changes to your vertical training plan. 1. On a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 representing the perfect vertical jump, and 0 the worst it has ever been, where are you on that scale today? (X) 2. What has assisted you in getting to this point already? 3. What other things aid your performance at (X) along the scale, instead of zero? 4. When has an outstanding vertical leap already happened for you - even just once? 5. How did you make that happen? 6. What did you do differently? 7. What is the next small step you can take? You should be working with a coach, whether they have a solutions focused approach or something else. The key is whether they help you to get results or not. Despite that, you'll derive tremendous value from writing out the answers to these seven questions on a piece of paper for yourself. You may prefer to work in pairs with a teammate, or even have a friend or family member ask them to you so that you can concentrate fully on the answers and not the questions. A terrific sport psychologist I know gave me the following analogy to the solutions focused approach. He said that in life, you either get green stuff (what you want) or you get red stuff (what you don't want). You have the choice as to whether to spend your time trying to get rid of the red stuff, or else go all-out to have so much green stuff, nothing else matters. It's a great way to flip your current thinking on it's head, so go fill your vertical training plan with plenty of green stuff!
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