Leveraging the Crowd

The community element here could just be a bonus, or you can use it for tangible results. On one hand, the community makes for good Instagram stories and weekend plans. On the other hand, it’s a surgical tool for direct performance improvement.

In college, the NCAA regulations would severely limit the time Division I baseball teams could practice together. This is especially true around the holidays. Knowing these restrictions limited our top end potential development, we had a system of “Push Partners” that leverages the utilitarian advantage that community offers I’m talking about. This was a glamorized partnership between players to peer pressure each other into training compliance and extra work.

We all want positive outcomes. Life happens to us along the way, however, and sometimes we make sacrifices to our best chances of getting the results we want. Peer pressure, however, can be a useful tool in weathering the storms of life and everyone still getting what they want.

For example, in Coach’s Prep we’re leveraging the peer pressure of each other to unearth a deeper understanding of plyometrics. Sure, we’d all like to be masters of this art developed by Russian sport scientists in the 1960s, but, hey, we’re busy, ya know?

ENTER: Positive community peer pressure.

We’re supporting each other to follow through in a bit of extra research and development to accomplish the hard goals we all can benefit from. This works just as well with your fellow classmates.

How, you ask? Whip out your cell phone and dare a classmate to make it three times a week to class every week this month. Place bets on who can improve their mile time most by the end of the year.

We all want results. With a little forethought, you’d be surprised at how you can crowdsource your way to achieving your goals.

 

Logan Gelbrich  

@functionalcoach