{"id":13126,"date":"2015-08-20T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=13126"},"modified":"2015-08-20T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T08:00:19","slug":"volleyball-coaching-a-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/20\/volleyball-coaching-a-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball coaching a distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Does this sound like you during the volleyball season?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Am I the only one that can&#8217;t get any work done during the day because I continually get distracted by thoughts of today&#8217;s drill schedule?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know I certainly struggled keeping my focus on things that should have held my attention (work, studies, etc.) at various points and times. While I coached at Exeter, volleyball issues frequently sidetracked my days. That was true even when I wasn&#8217;t coaching that evening. I remember in my early days of coaching college volleyball spending time developing practice plans while at my day job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Needless to say, for the sake of our employment, grades, relationships, or whatever, this is probably not something we should be in the habit of allowing to happen. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a possible way to tackle this issue. Set aside some specific time during the day when you permit yourself the volleyball distraction. I suspect it&#8217;s not a good idea to just cut it out cold turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a related subject, I realized planning practice takes basically all the time I allow myself to do it. By that I mean if I start working on it 2 hours before training it takes 2 hours. If I give it 30 minutes it takes 30 minutes.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/parkinsons-law-definitely-applies-to-practice-planning\/\">This actually has a name<\/a>. To address this situation while at Exeter, I didn&#8217;t start putting together the actual training plan until a certain time each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That isn&#8217;t to say I don&#8217;t think about what I wanted to accomplish that session beforehand. That process begins pretty much as soon as my last contact with the team ended. It&#8217;s just that I am more efficient writing up the actual plan itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find yourself thinking about the next practice or match when you should be focused on other things? You&#8217;re definitely not alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[83,109,112,331,435],"class_list":["post-13126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-coach-psychology","tag-coaching-psychology","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills","tag-volleyball-training-plan","tag-volleyball-practice-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}