Tim Clark, CSCS
Chaska, MN
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Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists are learning the Intrinsic Coaching® methodology and turning a coaching methodology into a movement creating healthier people, healthier organizations, and a healthier world. Because Intrinsic Coaching® enables strength and conditioning specialists to elicit best thinking in a shorter, straighter way, strength and conditioning specialists are finding Intrinsic Coaching® enables them to skillfully reach capabilities that can only come from inside the athlete.
Enroll as an individual: To view the schedule and enroll in an Intrinsic Coach® Development Series for Health and Wellness professionals, go to http://www.intrinsiccoach.com/english/enroll/. New series start almost every week and meet via teleconference for two consecutive hours a week, once a week, for twelve weeks. If you have to miss a session, you can listen to an audio file of your missed session. Upon completion of this Series, you will be able to elicit people's best thinking, including your own, so they and you can accomplish important outcomes. You'll also be able to identify yourself as an Intrinsic Coach®, use the Intrinsic Coach® logo, wear the Intrinsic Coach® pin, have access to the Intrinsic Coach® community, and have a readily available way to develop your coaching in any direction you choose, through www.IntrinsicCoach.com. For a brochure, click here.
Train your staff in Intrinsic Coaching®: We'd be happy to train your entire staff and also talk about creating in house Intrinsic Coach® Development capabilities. To take a first step, contact us for a conversation.
Enroll as an individual: To view the schedule and enroll in an Intrinsic Coach® Development Series for Health and Wellness professionals, go to http://www.intrinsiccoach.com/english/enroll/. New series start almost every week and meet via teleconference for two consecutive hours a week, once a week, for twelve weeks. If you have to miss a session, you can listen to an audio file of your missed session. Upon completion of this Series, you will be able to elicit people's best thinking, including your own, so they and you can accomplish important outcomes. You'll also be able to identify yourself as an Intrinsic Coach®, use the Intrinsic Coach® logo, wear the Intrinsic Coach® pin, have access to the Intrinsic Coach® community, and have a readily available way to develop your coaching in any direction you choose, through www.IntrinsicCoach.com. For a brochure, click here.
Train your staff in Intrinsic Coaching®: We'd be happy to train your entire staff and also talk about creating in house Intrinsic Coach® Development capabilities. To take a first step, contact us for a conversation.
Tim Clark, CSCS, GFI Training, Chaska, MN
In sports, life, and Intrinsic Coaching® you never can know…but you always can have one step at a time with each step informing the next.
I thought about Intrinsic Coaching® as I was watching the Tour de France this week and Wimbledon the week before. You see, the great thing about sports, the thing I love the most, is that you just never know. Venus Williams was down match point in the second set in the women's final at Wimbledon and somehow came back to win. She was the lowest seed to win the tournament and to do it had to play the longest point in the history of the women's tournament (25 shots). No way could you have predicted that. Too many things had to happen that hadn't happened before and may never happen again. The Tour is a 21 stage race that takes place over 23 days. It involves 187 riders and 20 some teams. They will race in all kinds of weather over flat stages, rolling hills, on grueling climbs over mountain passes and across centuries old cobblestones. Add to that team strategy, individual goals, illness, injury, mechanical failure, flat tires and even some crazy spectator running onto the course, well on any given day the entire race can turn in a moment.
So, what's the point?
Well, the way you come back from match point at Wimbledon or successfully compete in the Tour de France is the same way you create change or accomplish your goals in any aspect of life. It’s what we teach and work off of in Intrinsic Coaching® - step by step with each step informing the next. You play the point at hand, see what happens, learn what you can and then carry that into the next point.
A point at a time the complexion of the match changes. Or you race one stage at a time, mindful of your goal, the ever changing variables and focused on what you need to do and can do right now, what matters most in this moment. Then you move forward from there. When you think about it the greater your capacity to think intrinsically the greater your chances of succeeding whether you are racing a bike or trying to lose weight or attempting to grow a business. As we say from the very first session - you expand your working arena. There isn't one right way to win the Tour de France or make the team or create a healthy life. That's what is so great about sports and about life: you just never know.
Too often, sports are dominated by the extrinsic.
Dear Christina,
I came across a story in Rick Reilly's column in this week's Sport's Illustrated that I wanted to share. I think it says something about the power of the intrinsic.
This past week the Tulsa University Men's Golf team finished regulation play in the conference tournament tied with Southern Methodist University. A sudden-death playoff was required with the 5 players from Tulsa playing off against the 5 from SMU for the conference championship. The only problem was it was 3:20 and the Tulsa players had to catch a 4:30 flight to be back at school for finals the next morning. The flight was the last one out of town. The playoff could take an hour or more. So the Tulsa coach did something inspirational. He forfeited. He turned to the players and said, “We have more important things than this." Then proceeded to the airport in order to get these young men home in time for finals. And, although disappointed and even a little mad at the time both the players and their parents said that by the time the plane took off they were "really proud" of the coach.
Too often sports are dominated by the extrinsic - how many wins, how many championships, how many all-Americans? Or, it can fall victim to systemic thinking - it doesn't matter how many you win if you didn't go undefeated, set a new record, or reach some other standard of perfection. What this coach did, what he CHOSE, seems to me to require drawing on the intrinsic. I may be reading things in to this but I like to think that this is an example of what is possible when we are able to look straight at a situation or a choice and answer the question, "What matters most in this moment?"
Interestingly, the coach of the other team agreed to settle for a tie and share the championship but - get this - the conference commissioner said, "You can't do that. There's no provision in the bylaws for that." How's that for systemic thinking and limiting possibilities? Contrast this with the coaches who said that, in this unique situation, it's possible to have more than one champion. A little intrinsic thinking I hope, even if they don't know it.
It seems to me the answers to the problems facing sports are not likely to be solved with more regulation, harsher penalties, or some reward system. Somehow the people making the choices will have to think differently about what's important, what they're seeing, and the choices they make. Kind of like this coach.
Thanks for the gift of Intrinsic Coaching®. It is changing the way I think.
Gratefully,
Tim Clark, CSCS
May 23, 2005
I thought about Intrinsic Coaching® as I was watching the Tour de France this week and Wimbledon the week before. You see, the great thing about sports, the thing I love the most, is that you just never know. Venus Williams was down match point in the second set in the women's final at Wimbledon and somehow came back to win. She was the lowest seed to win the tournament and to do it had to play the longest point in the history of the women's tournament (25 shots). No way could you have predicted that. Too many things had to happen that hadn't happened before and may never happen again. The Tour is a 21 stage race that takes place over 23 days. It involves 187 riders and 20 some teams. They will race in all kinds of weather over flat stages, rolling hills, on grueling climbs over mountain passes and across centuries old cobblestones. Add to that team strategy, individual goals, illness, injury, mechanical failure, flat tires and even some crazy spectator running onto the course, well on any given day the entire race can turn in a moment.
So, what's the point?
Well, the way you come back from match point at Wimbledon or successfully compete in the Tour de France is the same way you create change or accomplish your goals in any aspect of life. It’s what we teach and work off of in Intrinsic Coaching® - step by step with each step informing the next. You play the point at hand, see what happens, learn what you can and then carry that into the next point.
A point at a time the complexion of the match changes. Or you race one stage at a time, mindful of your goal, the ever changing variables and focused on what you need to do and can do right now, what matters most in this moment. Then you move forward from there. When you think about it the greater your capacity to think intrinsically the greater your chances of succeeding whether you are racing a bike or trying to lose weight or attempting to grow a business. As we say from the very first session - you expand your working arena. There isn't one right way to win the Tour de France or make the team or create a healthy life. That's what is so great about sports and about life: you just never know.
Too often, sports are dominated by the extrinsic.
Dear Christina,
I came across a story in Rick Reilly's column in this week's Sport's Illustrated that I wanted to share. I think it says something about the power of the intrinsic.
This past week the Tulsa University Men's Golf team finished regulation play in the conference tournament tied with Southern Methodist University. A sudden-death playoff was required with the 5 players from Tulsa playing off against the 5 from SMU for the conference championship. The only problem was it was 3:20 and the Tulsa players had to catch a 4:30 flight to be back at school for finals the next morning. The flight was the last one out of town. The playoff could take an hour or more. So the Tulsa coach did something inspirational. He forfeited. He turned to the players and said, “We have more important things than this." Then proceeded to the airport in order to get these young men home in time for finals. And, although disappointed and even a little mad at the time both the players and their parents said that by the time the plane took off they were "really proud" of the coach.
Too often sports are dominated by the extrinsic - how many wins, how many championships, how many all-Americans? Or, it can fall victim to systemic thinking - it doesn't matter how many you win if you didn't go undefeated, set a new record, or reach some other standard of perfection. What this coach did, what he CHOSE, seems to me to require drawing on the intrinsic. I may be reading things in to this but I like to think that this is an example of what is possible when we are able to look straight at a situation or a choice and answer the question, "What matters most in this moment?"
Interestingly, the coach of the other team agreed to settle for a tie and share the championship but - get this - the conference commissioner said, "You can't do that. There's no provision in the bylaws for that." How's that for systemic thinking and limiting possibilities? Contrast this with the coaches who said that, in this unique situation, it's possible to have more than one champion. A little intrinsic thinking I hope, even if they don't know it.
It seems to me the answers to the problems facing sports are not likely to be solved with more regulation, harsher penalties, or some reward system. Somehow the people making the choices will have to think differently about what's important, what they're seeing, and the choices they make. Kind of like this coach.
Thanks for the gift of Intrinsic Coaching®. It is changing the way I think.
Gratefully,
Tim Clark, CSCS
May 23, 2005
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