Coaching Energy – How To Feeling Energized In Your Coaching If you’ve ever coached you will “get” the concept of “Coaching Energy”. Coaching Energy is the combination of energy in training and practice sessions that comes from: The Coach; The Athletes. The combined “energy” of the coach and the athletes […]

The Real Role Of Sporting Parents – Being The Sporting Parents Your Kids Really Need You To Be. Having delivered hundreds of sporting parents seminars all over the world, I am often asked, “What is the real role of sporting parents? Is it to merely pay sporting registration fees and […]

Athlete Empowerment Under The Microscope – Myths And Misunderstandings Of Coaching Empowerment. The world of sports coaching – like most areas of human endeavour – is full of trends, fads, jargon, gizmos and gimmicks. Every so often there’s another “revolutionary” new direction in coaching, sports science, athlete development and sports […]

Choosing Your Coaching Path – Trends in Coaching The world is changing. People are looking for more from their lives, their workplaces, their “faith” – whatever that faith maybe – and of course – they’re looking for more from their experience of sport. As coaches are the primary deliverers of […]

Whole Coaching Practice. Let’s discuss the real importance of Whole Coaching and investigate some of the ways that you can incorporate the concept of Whole Coaching into your program. This is part two of my special short series on Whole Coaching. In part one, I talked about what Whole Coaching […]

Whole coaching simply means coaching the whole athlete having an holistic, broad, whole of life, whole of family, whole of environment, approach to the way we connect with, engage and inspire the hearts and minds of athletes. It asks some core questions of our coaching: How do we build relationships […]

There Is An “I” In Team – Coaching Individuals In A Team Environment One of the most common sayings in sport is: “There’s no I in team”. The saying is supposed to convey the belief that the strength of any team is the team itself – i.e. unity, people working […]

The Sports Industry around the world follows some very predictable and very common policies, patterns and practices. If you spend a moment or two thinking about these policies, patterns and practices, you’ll be able to understand why sporting organizations, sports clubs and sports leaders do what they do they way […]

Greatness is something most people involved in high performance sport aspire to: the ambition to achieve something remarkable and to become something more than they are. However, greatness does not work like that. You become great by thinking, saying and most importantly doing things that lead you to the achievement […]

What if I told you everything you thought you knew about Periodization was wrong? What if your unbreakable beliefs in one-week Microcycles, four-week Macrocycles and three month long training Phases as the cornerstones of planning training programs was probably holding you – and your athletes – back from realizing your […]

Creativity And Innovation In Coaching By Wayne Goldsmith Ideas are easy to find. Information is everywhere. Anyone, can get anything, anytime, anywhere and usually for free. You have access to more ideas and information than any coach in your sport at any time in history. Everyone knows what you know! […]

Sports Science – The Future of Sports Science By Wayne Goldsmith There is no doubt that sports science has made a significant contribution to the development of sport around the world at every level. However, as it is with every industry and in every walk of life, there’s a need […]

Coaching Life Skills – Using Your Coaching Skills In Life By Wayne Goldsmith Coaching as a profession and an art form is a multifaceted activity which involves the development of a broad range of skills and capabilities. Every day during training and practice, coaches routinely demonstrate skills which are directly […]

Sporting Culture – It’s What You Do That Matters. Over the past 25 years I’ve been asked to work with sporting organizations all over the world and help them build and grow a successful sporting culture. And no matter how many times I do it, I am stunned at the […]

Holistic Coaching – Coaching the Whole Athlete. For the most part, coaching is focused almost exclusively on the physiological development of athletes. It’s easy for coaches to be centered on the physiological aspects of athlete development as they can be seen, be measured, be counted, be observed. Yet, human beings are […]

Sporting Parents. Sporting parents are the key to sporting success. They teach values. They help to build and grow virtues. They foster and nurture character. Sporting parents teach important life lessons: lessons about responsibility, about accountability, about honesty and respect and integrity and humility. Sporting parents working in partnership with […]

Perform the Skill. This is the first, and unfortunately for most athletes, the last step in their skills learning program. Coaches come up with a drill, athletes copy it, try it, learn it. Sports Skills Step 2: Perform the Skill very well. Skills mastery comes from regular practice combined with […]