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How do we stay healthy and high performing here?
Welcome coaches!
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Every coach deserves to feel energized and inspired throughout their career, and as we know, the demands of high performance sport, particularly the Games, can often exceed our capacity to do so. Below is a series of resources to help you backwards plan from the Olympic and Paralympic experience and experiment with ways to prepare yourself like you do for your athletes.
Here, well-being is tactical, adaptable, and experimental. Feel free to utilize this space in whatever way you want, but here is how it's designed to help you succeed:
Getting started
Tactical well-being resources for coaches, based in science.
"Want to get great at something? Get a coach - an extra set of eyes, a perspective from outside of the frame, words of wisdom from someone who’s done it before, someone to help manage a dozen ideas and get you started on one... Everybody needs a coach. Everyone." - Atul Gawande, MD - Surgeon, writer, research scientist, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School
Emilie Lazenby, MS, CMPC, CSCS, Breathwork Instructor, RYT
Schedule a call with Emilie, opens in a new tabNational team and NCAA coaches can schedule calls with Emilie Lazenby (USOPC Coach Well-Being Lead) for resources and practice in:
- Resetting sleep on and off the road
- Stress resilience and regen
- Breathwork for performance
- Movement as we age
- Fueling for your day
- Countering isolation
- Grounding in constantly changing environments
- Energy periodization
Sean McCann, PhD
Coming soon!
Cody Royle
Contact Cody, opens in a new tabCody is a coach for head coaches and author of three books: The Tough Stuff, A Second Set of Eyes, and Where Others Won't. After 14 years coaching athletes, his life’s work is to change the coaching landscape in elite sport.
Wade Gilbert, PhD
Contact Wade, opens in a new tabWade is an internationally renowned coaching scientist and award-winning professor in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University – Fresno. With a doctorate in Sport Psychology, Wade is the developer of the USOPC Quality Coaching Framework and specializes in helping coaches develop their own coach learning communities.
Betsy Butterick
Contact Betsy, opens in a new tabComing soon
Not sure where to start?
Take profile, opens in a new tabStart here for a clear understanding of what experiments to target. Backed by clinical research, this brief and confidential profile measures consistency across six foundational habits (Your ability to maintain Sleep, Nutrition, Movement, Breathwork, Connection, and Stress Resilience - on and off the road):
What would help your energy this season? At the Games? This option opens up to a catalog of experiments... Take your time here! Experiment with different routines and rituals. Connect with experts. Notice what works (and when)!
Reset Low/Lagged Sleep
Optimizing imperfect sleep, opens in a new tabPerfect sleep is not the goal, nor is it possible. Practice how to reset your sleep when needed.
Stress Resilience + Mental Mastery
Performing under pressure, opens in a new tabYou are a performer too, coach. Practice how to utilize adversity and build tolerance for pressure and uncertainty in the most intense and complex of conditions.
Breathwork + Emotion Control
Resetting your nervous system, opens in a new tabBreathwork is like a remote control to your physiology. Practice breathwork to help you restore the natural flow of your breathing, improve performance, and regulate any time, anywhere.
Fuel for performance
Nutrition for phases, opens in a new tabKnow how nutrition works for you so you can feel energized and nourished throughout your days and competently oversee the nutrition of your athletes.
Utilize Daily Movement
Staying calm yet energized, opens in a new tabExplore ways to shift your mood, release stress, curb jetlag, and set a rhythm for your days - on and off the road.
Counter isolation
Connecting creatively, opens in a new tabAs coaches, we have a lot of company, but little connection. Practice ways to counter the emotional toll of coaching and strengthen relationships at home and work.
Recommended Resources
The emotional toll of coaching, opens in a new tab Breathwork for performance, opens in a new tab Better sleep, opens in a new tab Improve your breathing, opens in a new tab How to make time to meditate, opens in a new tab Quality coaching systems, opens in a new tab Oldie but goodie, opens in a new tab Lessons from performance psychology, opens in a new tab
