Thanks SC,
Just recently my best athlete left me after discussions he’d had with a few people.
It’s given me time to reflect on where I’m at and what I could have done to prevent him losing faith in what we are doing.
Firstly there’s nothing I could have done - he was going anyway. Secondly (hypothetically) for him to remain it would have meant a massive paradigm shift for me involving a total compromise of my philosophy and how I structure my program.
Problem is when I’ve done that, things haven’t turned out so well. I realise later that I’ve changed things up for the wrong reason, and that is to appease the athlete. I shouldn’t compromise my ideals just to accommodate an athlete who is unwilling to have faith in what I’m doing.