The Importance of Words in Athletes

Athletes have no idea what the words that are spewing out of some old man's mouth are at you. And so from a coaches perspective, if you really want to help an athlete, find words that mean something to that athlete as a way to explain it to them. That was probably why I enjoyed discus so much is because I had a really good discus coach that found a way. He had ways to tell it to one athlete and would say the exact same thing in a completely new sentence to another athlete. But it meant something to that athletes and got him into that correct position.