The Powerbook

Powerbook

The Powerbook, created by Coach Guy, is a very powerful tool that serves to guide coaches and players towards their physical, mental and team goals. The Powerbook serves the following functions:

Daily and short-term personal, skill and team goal setting.
Time management and organizational tool.
Daily tracking and recording of practice scores and results.
Over 300 quotes to help stimulate, motivate and inspire the athlete.
Meaningful messaging to promote positive mindful thinking.
Volleyball skills breakdown.

Practice Field of the Mind

The Powerbook is “The Practice Field of the Mind”:

Coaches unanimously agree that the mental side of an athlete is far more important than his/her physical attributes, but few actually walk-the-talk and put the time in to address this vital part for success on a daily basis. Using the Powerbook solidifies a coaches commitment to an athlete’s mental development and personal growth as a person and teammate.

Goal Setting

The Powerbook directs players to “Take Daily Responsibility” for their own learning and athletic progress for practice. The Powerbook system requires each athlete to set a goal for themselves, write them down, remain focused on them throughout practice and evaluate them at the end of practice. Athletes learn the most common trait of successful people and that is “how to set and follow through on goals.”

Track Performance

Daily recording and tracking of practice performances:

“Rapid improvement occurs when we manage the skills we value.”

This principle is a mainstay in Coach Guy’s coaching world. Manage the skills you value and you improve more rapidly than any conventional coaching or training. Coach Guy has devised a system of scoring personal practice performances that allows athletes to quantify and record each performance.

The Goal then, is to simply come to practice breaking records every day…hence the term BRED. The Powerbook is used daily to record and track every athletes performance on specific ball control skills and makes it easy to see those athletes who are willing to compete against themselves every day versus the ones who get tired, distracted, lose focus and do not improve. What seems to be a simple recording and tracking of daily results is more a measure of an athletes mental toughness to get through three months of daily grind, to get better and break records every day.

Create the Best Version of Themselves