TRAINING WEEK: The 4-step system elite sport uses to plan for pressure before it hits
Lessons in preparation, pressure and staying ahead of it
Welcome to Training Week
Most people think being reactive is a personality flaw, something to feel guilty about and fix with more discipline. It is not a character issue. It is a planning gap.
In elite sport, teams do not wait for pressure to test them and hope they cope well in the moment. They build the response in advance. Set plays for when the game gets tight. Protocols for when a session goes wrong. Scripts for the substitution nobody wanted to make. None of it is improvised under load, because nobody performs well while inventing a response with the pressure already on them.
Reactive people are not weaker under pressure. They are simply meeting pressure for the first time in the moment it happens, without a plan already built. Proactive people met that same pressure days earlier, on a calm afternoon, when it was still hypothetical.
The gap between the two is not confidence. It is preparation. This week builds the preparation.
Here is what I am going to walk you through:
Step 1: Name your three most likely pressure points this week
Step 2: Write the response before you need it
Step 3: Set the trigger that switches you into the plan
Step 4: Review which pressure points you actually predicted correctly
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