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Exercise Patience When Giving An Athlete Repeated Instruction

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Ken Taylor (@TheSpeedDr) played for the Super Bowl Champion 1985 Chicago Bears and is now a private coach, specializing in speed training. He was a three-time Pac-10 Academic All America at Oregon State University as a football player and triple jumper/sprinter, while also earning a bachelors degree in exercise physiology and sport science.

In this video, Ken emphasizes the importance of patience, as different athletes learn at different paces. He explains how may ask athletes to raise their knees two inches higher and two miles-per-hour faster. Then he watches them try to process that information so he can learn about their learning styles.

Ken abhors the tactic of a coach giving up on an athlete after a few less-than-perfect reps and replacing him or her with another, who may be able to do what the coach wants more immediately, but may never improve or reach the same potential as the athlete who was abruptly replaced.