Impact of Personal Coaching on Athlete’s Performance

As an athlete, you will always think you are good enough or better than you are. That is the competitive nature of athletes.

Yet how many times, whenever they start an individual program to improve their performance in some way they have a great season, matches, and tournaments?

Choosing the right coach is also very important. Someone who will guide you the right way and who knows how to take 100% out of you is the perfect pick.

INDIVIDUAL SPORT ATHLETES

In individual sports, the focus for the performance is on the upcoming event and not the whole year round.

To take an example, martial arts.

Maybe fighters will have an opponent with a specific set of skills whom they want to mentally and physically beat by attacking their weak spots. Therefore you will in the first line have a team that recognises your working points and tries to make it harder for the opponent to get to you.

Secondly, if you improve your explosiveness, cardio, balance, coordination (cognitive skills), and flexibility you will be more lethal for anyone standing in front of you.

The second point you can improve with a personal coach who will guide you precisely, make you more dangerous, and give you a big advantage in the fight. Same with other sports such as tennis and running.

TEAM SPORT ATHLETES

On the team, you will not be working individually a lot. At the end of the day, it is still a team sport and the focus is on the group. The training sessions your coach gives are to get you ready for the opposite team each week and work on the weaknesses of the team.

If you stick only to that side you will hardly make any improvements or get more dangerous than other teammates. You are all doing the same thing, with the same intensity, exercises, and tactics.

How do you become a better individual when playing on a team?

The same principle as an individual athlete is getting a personal coach who can recognize your weak spots in practice with the team and the matches you are playing. The coach will plan for you what you lack the most and work on that first.

If your shooting is good, and you are fast you don’t work to improve that first. But if your first ball contact, orientation in the field, and cardio are weak, that is what is being targeted.

The whole individual work for the team sport athletes is being done so they can perform in practice and the upcoming matches.

For that reason, the biggest point is that the coach has to follow your sessions and matches and sit down with you for feedback from both sides. In that way, further plans for performance improvement are made.

HOW TO BE CERTAIN IF THE PERSONAL COACH CAN REALLY HELP YOU?

Finding a personal coach is easy.

Finding a personal coach that can help you with athletic performance is a challenge.

How to recognize which personal coach can help you with your performance?

Is it the knowledge you are looking for in them?

Is it the experience?

Or is it something more than that?

These are questions you should know as an athlete before you start a program with a coach who may not be able to make your performance better.

A coach surely needs the knowledge, yet this is not the point to be worried about.

All coaches have to go through tests and learning phases to know how the body works and to differentiate good from bad. But is this what qualifies them to be the right ones for you? They may be good at helping others lose weight and gain muscle which is the starting standard that most coaches get stuck on.

The experience is a very important point. Next to all the knowledge in the world or even just the basics, a coach will do good for athletes only if they have dealt with them before.
If they have gone through preseasons, camps, rehabs, and other things with other athletes before you, they will surely have the experience to keep you safe from injuries and still make your performance better.

Yet is that a perfect coach for you?

Many personal coaches don’t know how is it to play, be in the ring or a cage, the intensity and pressure of these moments in matches and tournaments.

So is there more to that?

How do you recognize a perfect performance coach with whom you will not be skeptical to work and certainly achieve results?

Take a look at the coach’s background.

Did they do any sports, what level have they been at, how long have they done it for?

Those coaches are the ones who will bring you the best work you need because they were in the situation you are and they learned what is needed and in which way to achieve that. With the knowledge and experience, this should be a perfect coach for you that can help you achieve your goals and boost your performance. Always question the background and capabilities.

Winners need winners on their side and you have freedom to choose.