Ask Yourself This

In your training and in your rehab are you creating an environment that prepares the athlete to withstand the forces that are imposed during the competitive efforts or are you creating an artificial environment that “protect’ the athlete in training and does not prepare them for the competition? If you dong the later then you are doing the athlete a disservice. The body adapts to stress, stress must applied in small doses that allow for adaptation. If you do not apply stress in training that is beyond the stress (overload) that occurs in competition you will fail in competition. That failure can be poor performance, but more often than not is an injury. Ask yourself if you are really training them to perform?