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Ascending Strength with Oliver Thorpe | EMP Podcast 91

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The Importance of Perception in Coaching

The way that we intervene in an athletes training has as much potential to inhibit their development as to assist their development. That's a very different attitude for a coach, right? So I think that coaches like doctors should start with the attitude of first doing a harm and not assume that just because this is the way that it’s been passed down or because you can see a change that you think is going to make the athlete better will actually do so. It doesn't matter if there's empirical evidence that it's improving the athlete or getting communication with the athlete. We're amazing at seeing patterns in specific contexts, and really bad at seeing patterns on other occasions.

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