

Gail Devers
๐บ๐ธ Sprinter: 3x Olympic๐ฅ, 9x World Champ
So the question says, how do you motivate your athletes when they don't think? Things are going well and training leading up to races? But really, they are that that happens all the time. It's it's, you can train and there's critical zones of where you need to be. So there's times that my athletes need to hit at a certain point based off of where we're trying to be for this particular race. And if they're there, I know, they're they're ready to go. But as an Feet. You kind of second-guess yourself, sometimes making sure and you just have to keep reiterating to them that, you know what? And and usually you like, you know, you getting race. You can't control what's going to actually happen. You just have to be able to navigate and and execute what you've been taught. But the way mentally you can deal with that is to have certain target times and if these athletes have hit these targets, Times. And they've done that, then you have to let them know. What I expect of you is for you to just do you, you get out there and you do your best? I tell my athletes all the time that in the end, they always know it. I'm at a certain place that I'm cheering for them or yelling out certain things for them. And when it comes to even in practice, no matter if it's the, if we're doing repeats, whatever, the last one that we come up to, I tell them act like it's your first one, get out there and give me your The effort. So when you get to a track meet or race, Or whatever it is a game, whatever it is you're doing. The whole goal for you is to do you, they say you can't give more than 100%. So I say, give 100 and a little hump and that's going to take you over. If you're ready to go, you're ready to go mind, body and soul and it's that equation. To I'm practices rehearsal for the main event and what are we doing out here at practice? We are putting in deposits in the bank. So now we're going to the track meet. And what are we going to do? Pull out the black card, and the spin spin spin. That's what it's about, and that's how I've been motivating. Debating my athletes and it's been working pretty good.