Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

ATHLETES: When your coach is pushing you and is demanding more from you and you don't know why, just understand that your coach is trying to help you get to a new level and to play at a new level.

Coach Cal said that his job is to make his athletes uncomfortable.  That means not coaching them where they are now; it means coaching them to where he sees they need to go and where they are capable of being.  This means that they have not been there, which means they will be uncomfortable all of the time.  

He says that their job is to learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.  

He sets up situations where they struggle so that they learn how to deal with it.  

He sets up situations where they are feeling pain, whether its through conditioning or anything else that takes them to their limits, because it's how they learn about themselves.

They just continue to raise the bar, and it doesn't mean kicking, punching and swearing.  It just means raising the bar and letting them know, "This is where we are coaching you.  That is not acceptable down here.  I know that you are comfortable playing that easy because that is how you have been playing your whole life.  Now we need you to go up into 'this' area.