InnerTactics- Ready To Play Blog

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

support@innertactics.com — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:23:00 GMT

Happy New Year...May 2011 be your best year ever! There are some exciting changes coming in January 2011 for us all! All I can say is...BE READY!

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Basketball player knocks out referee

support@innertactics.com — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:28:00 GMT

Do you think you REALLY know your players? Checkout the video below of a player who 'disagreed' with a refs call during a game and literally knocked him out! If you want to know what your own players actually agree or disagree with about themselves and the world around them, checkout the Ready To Play Profile vesion 2.0!

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Coach Your Best (Audio)

support@athletebydesign.com — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:55:00 GMT

Listen below to the audio interview with Sports Performance Coach John Lytton, one of the participants of the Ready To Play Course and his feedback and insight on Module 6- Coach Your Best™!

He literally had just completed viewing the online video module right before I had called him so I caught him in the moment.

Hope you enjoy the short interview below!

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Do Your Athletes Even Know Your Name?

support@innertactics.com — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:25:00 GMT

The past several months I have done an informal survey with young athletes and I have to be honest, the results have been shocking to say the least.

So what is this informal survey I am referring to?

Well, the nametag above says it all!

I have asked probably just over one hundred high school and college athletes since December 2009 the following question...

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Weekn In Review

support@athletebydesign.com — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:16:00 GMT

We spend way too much time focusing on our outside (physical performance). There is a HUGE ceiling effect when this happens! Instead...

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What Do You Think?

support@athletebydesign.com — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:32:00 GMT

One of the recent topics of debate is which has a greater impact on winning or losing a game....player personality or poor decision making skills?

Click Here and Let Me Know

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Coaching Conversations That Actually Have An Impact

support@innertactics.com — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:52:00 GMT

More often than not, it seems like coaching conversations tend to be one sided. (Which is funny in and of itself because in order to even have a conversation it requires both parties communicating) Why is that? Here are a few reasons:

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Got Innergy? The Get Fit Mindset

support@innertactics.cm — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:00:00 GMT

The Fitness Industry can be one of the most rewarding or the most frustrating profession to be a part of when it comes to personal training. Why? Because no matter how great your training system or gym might be, the actual results and...

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Mental Toughness Part 2

support@innertactics.cm — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:44:00 GMT

In part one of the post on Mental Toughness, I suggested that what coaches should really call it is simply 'TOUGHNESS TRAINING'. Why? Well one of the most common examples of what coaches call Mental Toughness training is simply to have their players go out and run two miles! This has nothing to do with the mental and everything to do with toughness endurance.

In part two I want to discuss the 'Mental' part of the word Mental Toughness.

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It's The Most Desired Mental Attribute In Athletic Performance

support@innertactics.cm — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:07:00 GMT

During my presentation at the NSCA Sport Specific Conference this past weekend in Orlando, Florida, I briefly spoke on the topic of the holy grail of an athlete’s mindset….mental toughness.

This attribute is known to cause serious headaches among the sports performance coaching world! Why is that do you ask?

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