What is convenient is not always right. Just because something is easy to measure does not mean it will improve performance. If we train for what we measure then hopefully that will improve, but if what we measure is not relevant to the sport we are training for, then we have the athletic equivalent of no child left behind – a bunch of athletic dolts who can do mindless repetitions of cone drills but can’t play the game. They know how to take the test, but don’t know how to apply it to the game. Our job as athletic development coaches is not to do what is convenient and easy, but to do what is right, to do what improves performance in the game. Sometimes it is basic, sometimes it is complicated, but it should transfer. Sometime it is measurable and sometimes it only shows up the field.
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