Podcasts about athletespecific

This week we are talking about:   Your goalies VOICE. How to make them project more and be HEARD.   How to improve the mental strength of your goalie.   Thoughts on the 2021 lacrosse goalie chest protector rules.   And much more!   Part 1: Many lacrosse goalies struggle with being heard on the field. In this episode we're not talking about WHAT to say but HOW to say it. Changing voices. Shy kids. Popularity within a team. These can all have an affect on how a goalie can project their voice on the field of play. Today we're going to talk about how to help a goalie use their voice so people can hear them.   Part 2: I get asked a lot about how to improve the mental strength of your goalie. This is not a quick answer! It's actually the bulk of my work over at AthleteSpecific.com and the new MentalPerformanceSchool.com, but I'm going to do my best to uncover some gems in today's FB Live to help your goalie have better performance on game days.   Part 3: This is the year for new lacrosse goalie chest protectors and I'm not really happy about it. In this episode we'll talk about Commotio Cordis. Why the new chest protectors are a thing. And why I think they still suck. :)   As always, I look forward to your questions and comments.   Do you know your goalie's save percentage? Do you know that your goalies "grade" is NOT the scoreboard? Make sure to download your copy of our Lacrosse Goalie Cheat Sheets™ and our Goalie Scorecards™ : https://lacrossegoalietips.com/lacrosse-goalie-cheat-sheets/   Please be sure to join our private Facebook Group just for lacrosse goalies, parents and coaches. Be sure to answer the three questions or you’re not getting in! Go here to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/creatingthelacrossegoalieofthefuture/   I want to coach your goalie. Even if it's for a month. I guarantee it will be the best money you ever spend on your lacrosse goalie. Click below to learn more:   https://lacrossegoalietips.com/before-you-consider-camp-consider-lacrosse-goalie-university

I remember when I went to the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, New York and quickly noticed how being an "olympian" was kinda old news. It was no big deal.  Everyone knew an Olympian or was one!  Training to go the Olympics wasn't a big deal either.  If you got up at 5AM to train, good for you.  It happened all the time. But back in my home town, I was a bit of an ugly unicorn.  People thought, "That's nice" but it came with a healthy dose of, "What the hell are you doing that for?" You're going to run into people who don't get what it is you do.  And when you run into them it's important that you understand what's going on and how to effectively deal with it so you don't get derailed. Listen to today's episode and let me know your thought and what your biggest takeaway was by leaving a comment and a review on Apple Podcasts. And if you're an athlete with big dreams and you want to take your game to the next level all while learning the skills to be successful in life, why not book a call.  Go to www.AthleteSpecific.com/call

Welcome to another addition of the Raising High Performance Athletes Podcast with Olympian Jonathan Edwards Today's episode is brought to you by the Athlete Breakthrough Blueprint.  If you have an athlete with big athletic dreams and you're looking to make them mentally bulletproof with more confidence so they can perform at their best, why not book a call with Coach Edwards.  In 45 minutes you'll learn just what your athlete needs to do to make their dreams come true.  Head on over to www.AthleteSpecific.com/call and book your Breakthrough Call Today. We're talking about Tiger Woods and his strategic approach to winning the masters.  Most athletes think that once they are better they will take this level of attention to detail seriously.  The truth is all of the aspects to his approach you can apply...right now.  Don't wait. So enjoy today's episode.  If you've got a topic you'd like to have covered send Jonathan an email at coachedwards@athletespecific.com  

It's time to get back to winning.  You've got big dreams, and I'm here to support them.  Whether you're an athlete, a parent of that athlete, or a coach who works with athletes.  You're in the right place. We will be talking about high performance concepts.  Many of which I have talked about in my book An Athlete's Guide To Winning In Sports and Life which is available in Amazon. As a transformational high performance coach to athletes in a variety of sports I have a unique view on what it takes to succeed in the world of sports.  I share this on my blog at www.AthleteSpecific.com and here on this fantastic podcast.  You're going to love it and I look forward to getting to know you and your dreams.   I encourage you to come join my Private Facebook group: Creating High Performance Athletes which is a community of likeminded athletes and their families who are chasing big dreams just like you.  

Olympian Jonathan Edwards, founder and CEO from Athletespecific.com is back with us this week for part 2 of the podcast.  Last week we had a great discussion on youth sports, what athlete specific.com missions was and all about his journey to becoming an Olympic athlete.  This week we are diving into more of his book An Athlete’s Guide to Winning in Sports and Life and look to give you so much information on how to become a top-level prospect and the best way to get there!

This week we are joined by Olympian Jonathan Edwards, founder and CEO from Athletespecific.com.  He hails from Boston but lives in Calgary, Alberta Canada.  He is an author, a speaker and a coach who is dedicating his life to empowering athletes and the parents who support them to reach their goals.  If you want to play college sports or dream of being a professional athlete, maybe have talented kids that want to play college sports or you yourself want to be a better athlete, then get ready to learn so much from someone who has and is defying the odds, changing the way athletes prepare and giving you a whole new perspective on how to get your kids on the right track, the right way.

Don't Fear Taking Time Off [00:00:01] Hey guys Coach Edwards here withLacrosseGoalieTips.com and LacrosseGoalieUniversity.com If you had haven't already, head over to AthleteSpecific.com and check out what I'm doing over there. A lot of you guys don't know that I coach athletes in a variety of sports. [00:00:16] Lacrosse has been my bread and butter for so many years, but over the last half a decade or so I've been working with athletes in a variety of sports like soccer, tennis, ice hockey, skiing, you name it. [00:00:31] But I always love my goalies and so that's why I'm here. But check over at www.AthleteSpecific.com, and if you've got a friend or a parent with a good athlete who's got big athletic dreams you want to send them over there, and have them download my freebie which is Mastering Automatic Negative Thoughts in athletes or you'll love that. [00:00:48] Okay so today I want to answer a question that I get every year. I'm going to paraphrase this because it's kind of long. This Weeks Lacrosse Goalie Question [00:00:53] But basically I get these this time of year. It's like, "Dear Coach, lacrosse is right around the corner. I haven't picked up a stick since last fall. What should I do to get in shape and get ready to be the best goalie I can be. Thanks so much.". [00:01:07] That is from Chris in Silver Spring, Maryland. All right great question Chris. But I'm sure this applies to a lot of lacrosse goalies. Step #1: Don't Worry [00:01:15] First and foremost if you've taken a break from lacrosse don't worry about it. All right. It is proven that when we give the mind and the body a rest it gives it a chance to kind of like I think of the term that use on a computer that idea of defragmenting a disk. If you've never heard that just Google it. Defragment Your Hard Drive [00:01:40] It's basically like you've used this hard drive over and over and over again, and you've saved files and you've deleted files that you've used files you've opened files and closed files. Now what happens is that disk. It's not like you're just laying stuff on top or another or putting away boxes nice and tidy, you get boxes over here and you get gaps and things like that. [00:01:57] So basically the disk is not really clean. And so, when you defragment it you basically free up all this space. So the hard drive can can work properly. And then you also just give it more time and more space to think and store new stuff. Right. New information. You Are Pruning Bad Synaptic Connections [00:02:14] And as an athlete, isn't that what we're trying to do. We're always learning and we're trying to basically prune old synaptic connections in our brain (bad habits) and create new ones. [00:02:26] So the break that you've had is actually really good for your mind and your body, right. [00:02:32] If you haven't played anything and you've just been sitting on the couch? Granted, you're going to have a little bit of upkeep. You should probably get moving. (You know this is a bigger conversation this video that will take that into consideration with my Lacrosse Goalie University members and my Athlete Breakthrough Blueprint members. We talk about this a lot.). [00:02:51] But you're going to want to get out, get running, get sprinting, get a stick in your hands. Things like that. But don't fear the break. OK? so that's rule number one. Step #2: Stop Worrying And Get Moving [00:03:01] Rule number two is get a stick in your hand and start working on some wall ball. All right. That includes taking a tennis ball and finding a space in your house. I used to shoot tennis balls off the roof of my parents house. The steep roof I used to throw it up there and I would wait for it to bounce down and I would catch it and throw back. [00:03:22] Or if it just caught the peak just right, it might take an odd bounce and I'd have to catch it. But that just kept me my hands going. And it started just kind of training my eye. I would focus on the ball. Things like that. Right. [00:03:35] I would also throw the ball in my parents kitchen. Don't do that now because cupboards are not built the same as they were in my parents house. My mom's got a 180 year old house with like solid pine cabinets. Really strong against a tennis ball. Don't Make Your Momma Unhappy [00:03:49] I would just get in there and use it. You can do this in your garage or in your basement. You know you can get a foam ball in your room, whatever. Just start working the hands because I believe...the better your stick skills are the better goalie you can be. [00:04:04] All right we've all seen a kid who's never played goal that maybe they were in attack man or middie and they had really quick hands and they could do they could do all sorts of fakes and whatever. You put them in the cage and they did really well. [00:04:14] That can be you! Don't feel like just because you're a goalie you don't need to have good hands. Get a stick. Get a short stick in your hands. Use that, but get the stick going OK. Step #3: Get Your Head Into Some Good Lacrosse Goalie Video [00:04:24] Thirdly, start looking at video. All right. Get online. [00:04:29] Get on Instagram. Start looking at good, lacrosse goalie play and then visualize yourself playing like those good goalies. [00:04:40] Now, don't get on Instagram and look at all the best goals from last year you want to find the best saves. Because you want to fill your brain with good examples. [00:04:51] OK? And here's the deal the the the mind doesn't know the difference between what's real( i.e. like practicing playing games and whats imagined with feeling). Mental Rehearsal [00:05:02] So if you can mentally put yourself in the headspace of playing in a game, playing in practice. Seeing shots. Moving. You can even do this in your bedroom in front of a mirror. That will get your mind going and your body will start to be replicating kind of what you would feel in practice. OK. [00:05:21] The cool thing about doing this mental rehearsal in your in your head is that you can speed up the shots. You can make them more difficult. You can change the weather and you don't even have to go outside. You can do it all by laying in your bed. And I recommend do it before you go to bed at night when you wake up in the morning. To Wrap It Up [00:05:39] All right so those are basically three biggies that you can start now and the sooner the better. OK, you're this close the season, start now. If you can get a hold of a buddy or a parent or somebody to shoot on you, hey that's great. [00:05:52] But like I said those three things will really take you a long way. And we, we tend nowadays, especially in North American sports in general. This idea of specialization, and how we need to be playing lacrosse year round. It's a load of crap. [00:06:09] Ok. If you've gone off and you've maybe played football in the fall may play a little basketball in the winter or a little hockey, whatever. You know you're going to be just fine and that break is actually probably going to put you in a better situation than you would be had you played all year long. All right. Have a Question?  Get In Touch! [00:06:26] So great question. Listen if you got a question for me e-mail me Coach EdwardsLacrosseGoalieTips.com And by all means if you would share this, like it and subscribed to our YouTube channel. [00:06:36] Really appreciate it. Every little bit helps and head on over to AthleteSpecific.com and check out what I've got going on over there. Huh! [00:06:46] See you next week.

Can a Lacrosse Goalie Stop Every Shot?   ​   Hey everybody, Coach Edwards here with LacrosseGoalieTips.com and LacrosseGoalieUniversity.com and welcome to everybody who headed over to AthleteSpecific.com which is one of my new projects, and signed up for the Free Goal Getting Guide for Athletes. Big shout out this week to new subscribers in Vienna, VA, Brighton, MI, and Clinton, New York.  That's just a handful of a bunch of new subscribers who we have this week. Listen, this week's questions comes from...well...I got a handful of emails from the East Coast this week and...one of them stuck out to me.  Parents and coaches are watching a lot of college lacrosse these days as we get further into the spring.  With the tournament coming around there are a lot of people clicking on InsideLacrosse.com checking things out, and basically the email I got was saying, "Man the ball moves so fast!  How does a college goalie even have a chance to stop it?" Here's a couple of thoughts:  1)  If you saw my post The Lacrosse Goalie of the Future Part 1 and Part 2 I talk about some of the changes I'd love to see happen in the game.  But lots of those changes aren't going to happen any time soon. But in the meantime, the best lacrosse goalies still have one trait in common which is...they believe that they can stop every ball. You know, as a lacrosse goalie, are some shots harder to stop than others?  Of course there are.  However, a goalie still needs to believe that they need to stop every ball and the best goalies believe that 100%. So a couple of things...as a coach one thing I try to instill with all of my goalies is that there is no right or wrong or good or bad goals there is only learning. If there is a shot taken from 20 yards out from with time and room, that's one type of shot.  A guy on the crease who fakes you out of your shorts twelve times...that's a higher rate of difficulty obviously.  But as a lacrosse goalie you want to keep challenging yourself. I always talk about the three keys to making any save:  You've got to see the ball.  You've got to know where it's going.  And you've got to move to it.  Most breakdowns come down to when a goalie over-commits to make a save and they get themselves out of position and then they don't have time to recover and get their feet set and move someplace else. Some goalies make amazing saves out of the blue and the best advice I heard about that is from a hockey goalie coach I had years ago named Joe Bertagna who was the goalie coach for the Boston Bruins. Joe said, "A goalie who makes an amazing save is really a goalie that was out of position."  So while we get excited about the goalie making those saves they were really caught out of position but they managed to recover somehow and get a piece of the ball and make a save. One of the things that I'd advise every athlete and specifically every parent, because a lot of coaching happens in the car ride home from the game or to the game.  Being a goalie parent is one of the hardest things out there and when you're trying to boost your athlete, one of the things you might say out of love is, "Hey listen, that was a really tough shot, you're not expected to save that one."  You might have said that out of love but the problem is that something we don't necessarily want to keep instilling in our athlete.  We don't want them to think that there are some balls that they should stop and others that they shouldn't. What we want them to understand is that they will get better to make those saves some day soon.  They may not make it right now, but they need to believe that we're going to get better someday. If you hear your athlete, here's a little trick that I use with my son who is ten years old.  He'll say what a lot of kids say which is, "I'm so bad at that," or "when this situation happens I always mess it up."  You have to say "cancel, cancel, restart, level up" and say this..."I presently struggle with..." This is one of the best vocab tricks that you can use in any sport or situation.  Change it to "I presently struggle with." What does that do?  That reframes the missed goal or the missed save and it basically says that someday I will make that save.  It's a way for the brain to make a switch because that's really important. Coaches and parents, don't let your goalies off the hook.  Out of love you will say, "You'll get that some day."  Tell them it's going to come.  It's going to happen.  That shot might have been hard today but you're going to get it someday real soon. Don't say, "Hey...you're not supposed to save those shots.  They're too hard." We all love the lacrosse goalie who, when they get faked out twelve times on the crease, but they stick with it and they make that miraculous save.  Everybody is cheering and we want to instill that in our lacrosse goalies. So instill in your goalies a belief that they can make every save.  They might currently struggle with a current type of shot now but that doesn't mean they will struggle with it long term. As they get bigger, faster and stronger and have more experience, they will make those saves.  So instill that in your goalies. Does Your Athlete Want To Play Lacrosse In College? Then check out www.LacrosseRecruitTruth.com and get a copy of my latest ebook The Ultimate Guide To Lacrosse Recruiting