Coaching Feedback

If you don’t know what to say, don’t say anything. The following has been told to a friend of ours daughter by her coach after every race she swims: “You need to get stronger and develop more front end speed.” She is thirteen years old and a very bright kid, finally out of frustration she said to her dad: “Why don’t they give me workouts to do something about it? We all do the same thing all the time.” If you do not have an action component and follow-up to the feedback then do not give it. No follow-up makes the feedback meaningless. The thirteen year old figured it out, why can’t the adult coaches?