# @fingermash on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BVfTa2eBaeD
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/62887-fingermash-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2017-06-18T17:21:40.000+00:00

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Process - Outcome & Health

The link between process and outcome is perhaps most evident when it comes to athlete health: poor process will lead to difficulties in maintaining health - especially evident in Championship season, when for some reason, more risks are often taken (out of desperation?). The coaching team has a responsibility to each athlete to do all they can to ensure that they can compete at their most important competitions each season.  If an athlete is not healthy at this time, then we have failed them - and we must revisit our processes to do all we can to ensure this does not happen again. 
This year, of the 20 athletes in our group, 1 will not be able to compete at their Trials. 
While many coaches-programs may be happy with this health ratio (19 out of 20 healthy), the bottom line is we have failed this particular unhealthy athlete; this is not good enough; and, with the recognition of the complexity of the process - the control we seek, yet rarely find - we MUST do better.

Far too many coaches, athletes, and therapists put poor health outcomes down to ‘bad luck’. This is perhaps the worst coaching mistake I see - to the point where it has infested athlete psychologies as well: athletes are happy to simple ‘be healthy’ - where this should be the expectation; they are ‘unlucky’ when they are injured - eliminating the need for responsibility - as if their health is just a simple matter of fate.

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