Vern Gambetta

The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

Vern is that rare individual who has coached at the elite level across multiple sports. His foundation is in Track & Field coaching, however over a career that spans almost 50 years he has worked in Major League Soccer, Major League Baseball, the NBA, Cricket, the NHL, Softball, Swimming and with San Francisco Forty Niners. Kansas City Chiefs. He is also the author of 9 books and over 100 articles. By any sense of the definition he is a coaching polymath.

In this terrific interview some of the key highlights were:

• Verns view on The importance of pointing out an athlete’s negative self-talk and working with them on reframing it.
• How he defines mental training as mind plus muscle equals life.
• The importance of rhythm when it comes to analyzing elite performance.
• And How he describes his philosophy of trying to help the best be better. And how he tries to achieve this as a coach by helping prepare the athlete for the path ahead, not preparing the path for them.
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