Purpose Needed for Your Training and Fitness

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By: Charles W. Boatright

Purpose Needed for Your Training and Fitness that is Important for Athlete’s Performance

A purpose drives the training, fitness, and conditioning of an athlete and is essential, whether one is preparing for the season or for game-day. This was echoed on the Paul Finebaum Show on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. During an interview that Paul Finebaum had with Coach Sam Pittman, Head Football Coach of The University of Arkansas, Coach Pittman revealed that this was a major concern of his.

The concerns that Coach Sam Pittman had were twofold. One facet was that athletes are working out on their own, limiting team training like scrimmages. The second facet which is a major concern of Coach Pittman was how can an athlete be committed to their training, fitness, and conditioning if the season is in doubt? They don’t have a purpose, which is essential.

If you don’t have a purpose, you don’t have a reason to prepare and perform at a high level. Challenging yourself has more to do with your mental capabilities than your physical capabilities. Since most athletes are having to work out on their own, it is going to be critical for these athletes to develop a self-coaching mentality; because of the motivation they will need.

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I ran into the importance that purpose plays in the self-coaching process after I had hip replacement surgery right before I retire to start my golf self-coaching and apparel business. I discovered the importance that purpose plays when I did my first YouTube Video. I took one look at the video and I had all the reasons I needed to lose weight. I could not continue making my golf training videos and be in promotions of my apparel business, THE QATSPY® The Yankee Personal-Style Traditional Apparel Quarters, my weight gain.

How to Develop a Self-Coaching Model in Your Training

Believe me, I had to develop a self-coaching mentality early in my life to reach a functional level. I had to teach myself to read at age 11 in order to educate myself; and later attended college where I earned a degree in engineering.

We all have a potential to self-coach to some degree. One reason is we don’t have a coach on the field, course, or court during the game. In golf, you can’t stop on the 4th hole and call your coach to work out some issues you are having. You’ve got to be able to figure it out for yourself.

Here are my eight characteristics that an athlete must develop in order to have a self-coaching model:

• Discipline
• Perseverance
• Motivation
• Confidence
• Focus
• Self-determination
• Problem Solver
• Trainer

I’ve provided five coaching principles that will help you start:

1. Calvin Coolidge Principle- Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
2. Swami Vivekananda Principle: Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life– think of it, dream of it, live that idea. Let the brain, muscle, nerves, every part of your body, be filled of that idea, and leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
3. Paul Principle No. 1- Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead. (Ephesians 3:13)
4. Paul Principle No. 2- So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling. (Ephesians 3:20)
5. Ecclesiastes Principle: If the ax is dull and one does not sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but wisdom brings success. (Ecclesiastes 10:10).

Here’s what the athlete will have to develop to be their own coach:

1. Become personally responsible for your own success.
2. Empower yourself with confidence, perseverance, determination, and motivation. Never, ever give up the pursuit for excellence.
3. Rely on existing motor-skills that are instinctive to build skill sets. Most all of an athlete’s skill set is developed by age 10.
4. Patience will be your greatest advantage in self-coaching. It will take time to refine techniques and fundamentals in order to use existing motor skills.
5. Self-coaching model will let the athlete solve problems faster and arrive at a permanent solution.
6. Self-coaching will discover untapped potential the athlete never knew he/she had.
7. Talent and intelligence can’t substitute for experience. Failure develops the athlete’s experience; success develops confidence.

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One of the most successful coaching techniques is what is at the base of the ASPEN Self-coaching Pyramid, shown above, called Apperception. Apperception is the athlete’s ability to take a skill set from one sport and use it to gain an advantage in another sports, as I did by taking the baseball swing from the batter’s box to the tee box.

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One of the biggest obstacles to overcome in self-coaching is transitioning from the thinking process to the ability to focus. Ninety percent of the athlete’s capabilities are subconscious, and thinking is a conscious function that derails the ability to focus.

One of the obstacles of tapping into the subconscious mind is No. 9 below, The greater the conscious effort reduces the subconscious intuitive response. Thinking decreases your subconscious ability (natural motor skills). I have included all 10 keys of how the subconscious mind functions below:

1. The subconscious mind does not and must not differentiate between visualizations and real situations.
2. Your subconscious feels that time passes faster.
3. The Quicker and longer the subconscious mind believes and proves something, the harder will it be to alter this belief in any way.
4. Every thought causes a physical reaction.
5. What you expect tends to be realized.
6. Finding proofs to your beliefs strengthens them.
7. The subconscious mind always prevails in conflicts with the conscious mind.
8. An idea, once accepted, will remain firmly in place until it is replaced by another.
9. The greater the conscious effort reduces the subconscious intuitive response.
10. Suggestions and belief can be used to “program” the subconscious mind.

One other key to the subconscious mind is No. 4, the subconscious mind acts on input of data, since the subconscious mind can’t differentiate between positive and negative data. For example, my last conscious thought while standing on a Par-3 was not to hit my tee shot into the water hazard. I just told my mind this– Hit my tee shot into the water.

Study these ten Subconscious functions, and you as the athlete will become your own coach.

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