tilburs wrote:
dfru wrote:
.....but I think that pushing those limits and staying healthy is so incredibly hard sometimes and sometimes, the athlete breaks - might not even be the coaches fault ultimately. Communication, poor nutritional choices, etc all add up and sometimes the final answer is injury
Disagree.
Chronic injuries can always be traced back to process and all things being equal process is a coaches responsibility.
Acute injuries (rolled ankle, bike crash etc....) not so much.
But your point is valid re. communication, nutrition etc... some athletes go do secret training above and beyond prescribed or make poor recovery/nutrition choices.
If comm’s are open and honest this can be addressed.
And some folks simply ‘hear’ what a coach says versus ‘listen’ to what a coach says when it comes to some aspects of training and recovery.....you can’t fix stupid as they say.
That’s not an insinuation against Josh or Cam, since I know them both, it’s simply my view on process vs. injury and a view I’d hold myself just as accountable to as well.
Regards
David
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "process", but chronic injuries can almost always be traced back to load or more correctly over-loading the structure. That of course includes, bones, tendons, ligaments, etc.
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