men behind sport. blog
This blog discusses the latest news applied research, insights, case studies, and interventions aimed at supporting senior male performance support staff.
As performance staff, our success is so often solely defined by external results, such as win-lose, KPIs, and other objective markers of success.
But underneath these external measures are our own stories within us. And that story is governed from day one of our life, childhood, and our...
One of the major struggles of the coaches I work with is that they can't be present. They're always thinking about what's next, whether that's career progression, qualifications of CPD, the stages of season, or Olympic cycle they're in. This leads them to being stuck in their head when they get...
Why is it so hard to set healthy boundaries?
The answer is unique to each of us.
One thing is for sure though, unshaped personal boundaries are a massive problem within performance support staff.
"I was working 6.7 days a week across a 12-month period, I wasn't seeing my kids or my wife and I...
I'm currently 120 interviews into speaking candidly with performance staff from around the world. This includes physios, SSCs, nutritionists, physiologists, performance directors, head of service and head coaches.
Many of them admit they solely focus their development through technical CPD. They...