Growing Through Practice

Most practices are similar.

You start out with some kind of warm-up, then you get into individual skill work. Next comes team skill work and you eventually get into some kind of scrimmaging/competing.

Most athletes just get through the skill work so that they can get to the playing part of practice. The best know how important the warm-up and skill work are. The best stayed focused and locked-in on the skill work, they learn, and they apply the skill work in live action.

If you want to be the best you can be, be focused, listen, learn, and apply from the start of practice through the end of practice.

Every word your coach says and every drill you do is your opportunity to get better. Every mistake and success is a chance to get better. Don’t waste those opportunities by slopping through drill and skill work.

Don’t just go through practice. Grow through practice. Every day, get a little better.