MEASUREMENT MATTERS

A technique to improve the quality of sports practices.

If you want your athletes to continually practice with high intensity, they must constantly set goals and work to reach those goals. Thus, a good way to encourage and monitor improvement is to measure and record their efforts during drills and exercises. An athlete’s best effort while running sprints is very subjective and instructing them to run "all-out" provides zero context and minimal motivation. On the other hand, trying to beat a personal-best record of 7.1 seconds for a 60-yard sprint is very objective and motivating. You can measure times of agility runs, velocity of a medicine ball thrown with a radar gun, or number of plays made successfully in a row.

I know what you are thinking: "How do I have the time to keep track of all that?" One solution is to have student managers and injured athletes measure and keep track of the data. Sometimes, these players and managers don’t feel like a part of the team, especially if they don’t have that much to do. But if you place emphasis on data collection and measurement, it gives them important and tangible reasons to show up everyday and be a part of the team.

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Brian Cain

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