Aidan Donnelly Coaching

Keep the goal the goal!

Having a priority, a focus and maintaining that over enough time to see it pay off or know how best to adjust can be a challenge.

Check out the slides for more information.

If you struggle with this DM me the word ‘goal’ for a framework to help solve this.

Change is difficult. Easier to keep doing the same thing hoping for a different outcome, especially when you don’t want to have to change what you are doing.

Load management, proper recovery and identifying what triggers your back pain is huge for being able to make sustainable progress.

Do you have ongoing back pain?

Lots of things start off as great ideas and theories and later on are shown to be not as expected. The theory was great, but the outcome wasn’t - it just didn’t happen or caused a different result than anticipated.

A couple of big ones I see and I jumped on the bandwagon with at one stage or another is going too ‘sports specific’, activation exercises and foam rolling.

A lot of the times these things are reported to be superior, less uncomfortable or more time efficient than the alternative which requires more time, effort and change which is rarely an appealing combination.

Without testing and tracking it’s very hard to know if something is doing what you want and you end up wasting far more time and effort in the long run.

Finding a baseline/ entry point and a way to track progress before implementing something is a huge time and frustration saver. Bit more effort up front to find a solution quicker and decide if something is really worth your time or not.

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Can you relate to the owl in picture 1? I can.

Injuries and pain that won’t go away, training taking a hit, no clear plan or progression, feeling frustrated and desperate to get back training but all you seem to get are low level rehab exercises and things ‘not to do’.

Great.

If you’d like to know what the Owl did to go from picture 1 to 3 ask A.I. But if you’d like to know how to get back training and making progress the DM me ‘owl’.

I have simple frameworks you can use to get the ball rolling.

There’s the injury and all the things you can’t do or lose with it.

Then there’s all the things you CAN do, but unable to focus on.

You can’t see the forrest for the trees yet.

When encouraged to problem solve, most people come up with good solutions and alternatives. They just haven’t asked the question:

“What else can I STILL do?”

Knee? - Train upper body and the unaffected leg
Back? - Upper body, seated machines
Can’t run? - off feet conditioning
Can’t make contact? - Skills training
Social? - Help out at training, go to the social events
Terrible personality? - Frontal lobotomy (joke)

There’s things you can still do.

Feeling under confident and finding it difficult to trust your ability or decisions comes up regularly in coaching scenarios.

Frequently after an injury, or set back. It’s also task specific. What I mean is you can be confident in one after, and completely under confident in another.

A way to improve this is to gradually demonstrate to yourself that you CAN do or change something.

Like with loading or acquiring a skill, it’s gradual. Big steps or jumps usually aren’t the answer. It increases likelihood of failure, or negative consequences and erodes confidence.

Though the vast majority of people try to do too much at once, and set the bar too high and the inevitable happens.

If you are trying to improve confidence in an area I recommend trying this for 6-8 weeks. You’ll see a difference.

If you want a copy of the framework then DM me ‘confidence’. If you need help implementing it then book a consultation using the link in my bio. It’s free and doesn’t come with a hard sell.