🙌🏼💪🏼 @coachbencarter #mycoach #bluegrassbarbell #kyweightlifting #biggoals **** #Repost @aimees2cents (@get_repost) ・・・ No matter the sport, no matter the age, and no matter the skill level, every athlete’s experience is shaped by one common element: coaches. Athletes see coaches as role models, people who care about them both as athletes and as individuals, and their athletic performance is better for it. In fact, athletes view coaches as the single most important contributor to their performance. More than the quality of the training environment, the coach’s technical skills, or the coach’s ability to manage competition, it’s the coach-athlete relationship that matters THE MOST. "When your athletes trust you and are out there fighting, and they look at you and they know that you care as much as they care, they will go an extra yard for you.” A lot of times your mind wants to give up before your body’s quite ready and I think that’s what coaches try and get their athletes to re...