This podcast is designed to help athletes, parents and coaches navigate the crazy sports climate we are in. Regardless of your sport, there is a mountain of information out there - some of it good, but a lot of it is bad and even debilitating for families who simply want what’s best for their athletes. We want to give you an opportunity to hear from nutritionists, college coaches, HS coaches, HS/College players, parents, scouts, former players, sleep coaches and performance coaches who have lived it or are living it now to help give you quality information that can help you,
Today, we are tackling one of the most important topics facing people today and one that is tremendously prevalent in the athlete community. Mental health issues are something that are becoming more and more prevalent in today’s sports world among athletes of all ages. While we are certainly not experts on the topic, we do have experience dealing with some of these issues from a personal level as well as from a coaching and parent perspective.
Athletes are definitely very susceptible to anxiety and depression because of the amount of pressure athletics can bring. However, so many coaches and parents don’t talk with their athletes about how to handle it. Throughout this conversation, we talk about what we believe are some of the pillars of positive mental health as well as some practical ways to fight against those demons that so many people face.
We really enjoyed this conversation and hope you do as well. Here is episode 12 of Unlocking Athletes
19 Feb 2024
Coaches Roundtable w/Russ Dixon
Welcome back to “Unlocking Athletes” I am really excited to release this episode that we have titled “Coach’s Roundtable” Today, we’ve got Russ Dixon joining the podcast. Russ coaches our kids class here at Evolution Athletics as well as adult fitness classes. He’s been working with the kids program for about 6 months now and has grown it from 1 or 2 kids to over 20 and does a great job of giving them some basic fundamentals of fitness as well as providing a fun atmosphere to help create a positive relationship with the gym and exercise
Throughout the episode, we talk through some of the similarities and differences in coaching kids vs HS athletes vs Adults. What the goals should be for each level as well as some of the issues we see as coaches working with different groups. I hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording it
Sit back and enjoy episode 11 of “Unlocking Athletes”
12 Feb 2024
Becoming Tough
What’s up everybody, we hope you enjoyed Episode 9 last week as we talked about goal setting and how to set SMART goals. Part of our SMART acronym was “Authentic” and making sure that your goals align with who you are and what you value.
That sparked an interesting conversation and we wanted to dive into it a little deeper. In this episode we talk about the importance of values using the framework of a great book by Greg Everett called Becoming Tough. We live in a very instant gratification, self serving, and weakening society in a lot of ways. As coaches we preach toughness to our athletes constantly, but rarely do we define it and talk about practical ways to improve it. Coach Everett does a great job of giving us a context to discuss toughness and how we can apply the principles to our jobs as leaders and coaches.
We hope you enjoy episode 10 of “Unlocking Athletes”
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