{"id":954,"date":"2017-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webinology.website\/nation2021\/how-to-manage-lazy-athletes\/"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:50:30","slug":"how-to-manage-lazy-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachup.com\/nation\/articles\/how-to-manage-lazy-athletes","title":{"rendered":"How to Manage Lazy Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lazy athletes are becoming more and more popular due to many factors, including the generation of gaming and the fear for safety outside of the home.<\/p>\n<p>When developing a plan for an athlete who comes in and is lazy, you really have to think outside the box. There are numerous ways to get a lazy athlete to focus and work hard, and one thing I have found to be successful is to <strong>make strong conversation with the client to find out what drives them and what they are passionate about<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking this information into account, I develop my training drills to relate to whatever that may be. For instance, when I have a client who is a gamer and talks about the games he plays, I try to describe the purpose for a particular drill that would relate to the success found in gaming.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to get frustrated with a lazy athlete but as a coach, we are there to make these athletes better. With a lazy athlete, I sometimes start my lesson with something fun that gets the body moving and activating the brain cells that stimulate the feeling of fun. This generation of athlete requires a more individual approach that incorporates sport psychology into training. You, as a coach, have to find out that thing that makes a player &#8220;tick&#8221;. By developing an inviting and fun training plan, you will see success in how to handle lazy athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lazy athletes are becoming more and more popular due to many factors, including the generation of gaming and the fear for safety outside of the home. When developing a plan for an athlete who comes in and is lazy, you really have to think outside the box. There are numerous ways to get a lazy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[21,838,837,115,836],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motivation","tag-coaching-tips","tag-how-to-get-players-to-try-hard","tag-how-to-motivate-kids","tag-lazy-athletes","tag-motivating-athletes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Manage Lazy Athletes - CoachUp Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coachup.com\/nation\/articles\/how-to-manage-lazy-athletes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Manage Lazy Athletes - CoachUp Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lazy athletes are becoming more and more popular due to many factors, including the generation of gaming and the fear for safety outside of the home. 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