In Episode 7 from our Fuel Podcast Series Brian Daccord and Steve Brown attempt to draw parallels between being a goaltender and athlete to being in the military.  Brown has done extensive work with and for the US Armed Services.  Among the topics discussed are Leadership, Investing In Your Team and Being Part of a Unit, How to Approach Failure, How to Deal with Stress,  Hardening Players vs. Preparing, the Chain of Command, Protocols and Structure in the military and the general lack thereof in hockey by comparison and much, much more. Fuel Co-founder Steve Brown is an athletic success coach specializing in helping athletes perform their best when it matters most by working with them to apply concepts of elite performance and resilience. He is the Director of Wellness at St. John’s Prep in Danvers, MA, and a mental skills coach for the Home Base Warrior Health and Fitness Program. Steve teams up with leaders in coaching and develop to bring the most pertinent content to Fuel athletes in order to best impact their growth. Prior to Fuel Steve previously worked as a Master Resilience Trainer-Performance Expert for the US Army’s Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program, where he worked with Soldiers to build mental toughness and resilience. https://fuelathletictraining.com/about Fuel Athletic Success Training © combines daily video primers, weekly assignments, and a monthly podcast to help maximize our athlete’s potential in the four additives of success: Confidence, Competitiveness, Character and Commitment. Fuel partners with leading coaches to provide position and sport specific mental skills training for high school, college and professional athletes. The result, Fuel athletes build their capacity to perform their best when it matters most.    Our mission at Fuel is to provide athletes with the skills necessary to be successful in and out of competition through a systematic approach to training confidence, competitiveness, character and commitment.     For more information visit, http://FuelAthleticTraining.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fuelathletictraining/support

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Fuel Podcast - S01 E07: Military Parallels

Oh boy!  This one is going to be a tough one.  There might be some broken tables and chairs during this Fuel podcast on Coaches.  Brian Daccord and Steve Brown break down some of the frustrations between goalies, coaches and parents.  Daccord and Brown explore topics including what to do if you don't get what you are promised and why you can't fight City Hall, the notion of predictable unpredictability, how the dynamic of the relationship between a goalie and a coach and a parent and a coach can and will change and how all parties might better navigate these relationships. If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then goalies might as well be from Jupiter and coaches from Uranus.  Strap yourself in, this is going to be a rocky podcast.   Fuel Athletic Success Training © combines daily video primers, weekly assignments, and a monthly podcast to help maximize our athlete’s potential in the four additives of success: Confidence, Competitiveness, Character and Commitment. Fuel partners with leading coaches to provide position and sport specific mental skills training for high school, college and professional athletes. The result, Fuel athletes build their capacity to perform their best when it matters most.   Our mission at Fuel is to provide athletes with the skills necessary to be successful in and out of competition through a systematic approach to training confidence, competitiveness, character and commitment.     For more information visit, http://FuelAthleticTraining.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fuelathletictraining/support

Fuel Podcast - S01 E06: Coaches

In our latest podcast, Brian Daccord and Steve Brown discuss commitment.   How do you define commitment?  What are you willing to take on and what are you willing to put up with to play one of the most unique and pressure filled positions in all of sports? What do you say to your self when you question your commitment?  The answers to some of these questions come back to some of our Fuel touchstones: attitude and effort, control what you can control, your strengths, your values, your personal philosophy and the most important question of self-awareness: Why?  Why are you a goalie (something we encouraged every goalie to explore in depth way back in the first week of the season)?  How do you know when you are over committed?  What are some of the healthy ways you can get a break from the grind and being over-committed?  And most importantly how do you assess your own commitment by evaluating where you are in your career and development? What do you need to do to reach the next level and most importantly are you willing to do what it takes to get there?  At the end of the day only you can answer the question if you are committed enough to achieve your goals or to realistically assess whether or not you are willing to continue make that commitment and whether or not its time to end your journey.  If you are committed to getting better as a goaltender, then you're in the right place.  Enjoy our latest podcast. Fuel Athletic Success Training © combines daily video primers, weekly assignments, and a monthly podcast to help maximize our athlete’s potential in the four additives of success: Confidence, Competitiveness, Character and Commitment. Fuel partners with leading coaches to provide position and sport specific mental skills training for high school, college and professional athletes. The result, Fuel athletes build their capacity to perform their best when it matters most. Our mission at Fuel is to provide athletes with the skills necessary to be successful in and out of competition through a systematic approach to training confidence, competitiveness, character and commitment.  For more information visit, http://FuelAthleticTraining.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fuelathletictraining/support

Fuel Podcast - S01 E05: Commitment

In this episode of the Fuel Podcast Brian Daccord and Steve Brown explore various aspects of character as relating to goaltenders, coaches and parents by exploring some of the difficult situations they face.  Daccord and Brown explore how to handle difficult situations for goaltenders including what do if you aren't playing and how to handle it keeping in mind that you are part of a team and part of the "goaltending department."  What about when a teammate approaches you and says "Hey why aren't playing?  You're better than the other guy."  Your answer can impact your coach, your teammates and how they play for you when you do get the call.  How you deal with situations like that can ultimately impact your success and the result when you do get the net.  When you aren't playing its a constant battle with your own self esteem and Daccord and Brown talk about how to handle that and that "battle over your own thoughts."  What about parents?  What do you when other parents say "Hey your kid ought to be playing.  He's way better than the other goalie."  Daccord provides useful strategies for coaches as well including how to keep the unit together and engaged regardless of who is playing.  How you ultimately resolve these situations at its core comes down to your character.  Explore the character within you in this month's podcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fuelathletictraining/support

Fuel Podcast - S01 E04: Character

In this month's Fuel Athletic Success Training Podcast, Brian Daccord and Steve Brown tackle confidence from every angle.  How do you define confidence? How do you become confident?  How does fear constrict our confidence?  How do we overcome fear to become more confident?  What physical aspects of your performance both in practice and in games can impact your inner confidence and the confidence you project outward?  Can you be too confident or over confident?  Does the projection of too much confidence show underlying weakness?  How do others perceive confidence in a goaltender?  How do scouts and coaches know they are watching a confident goaltender or a goalie who lacks confidence?  What are some strategies to pursue to improve confidence if your confidence is low?  You will love Brian Daccord's "depersonalization" strategy so be sure to listen to the end.  it is awesome!   Become more confident in net by fueling up in this month's podcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fuelathletictraining/support

Fuel Podcast - S01 E03: Confidence

In this month's Fuel Podcast Brian Daccord and Steve Brown discuss the different types of pressure and the different tools for dealing with pressure.  Pressure comes in many forms including self induced and from external influences.  Among the tools athletes and goaltenders have for dealing with pressure are: recognizing external sources of stress and developing mechanisms for acknowledging those sources and adopting mental and physical processes for refocusing including breathing, cues (Be Cues and Do Cues) and purposeful habits.  Also in this month's podcast you will learn to recognize the mental and physiological similarities between excitement and stress/pressure and understand who you are and where you are (and where your mental state is) when you are at your most successful.  Some athletes are successful when they are calm, some are successful when they are angry, some are even successful when they are "bouncy." and all athletes use and re channel nervous energy in some way.  How do you channel that nervous energy when you are your most successful self.   What type of goalie are you?  Where are you mentally and physically when you are at your best?  How did you get there?  How do you get there?  How do you set the conditions to be able to play your best when it matters most?   Fuel Athletic Success Training © combines daily video primers, weekly assignments, and a monthly podcast to help maximize our athlete’s potential in the four additives of success: Confidence, Competitiveness, Character and Commitment. Fuel partners with leading coaches to provide position and sport specific mental skills training for high school, college and professional athletes. The result, Fuel athletes build their capacity to perform their best when it matters most. Our mission at Fuel is to provide athletes with the skills necessary to be successful in and out of competition through a systematic approach to training confidence, competitiveness, character and commitment.  For more information visit, http://FuelAthleticTraining.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fuelathletictraining/support

Fuel Podcast - S01 E02: Pressure

The debut of the Fuel Podcast featuring Brian Daccord (Co-Founder of Fuel, President of Stop It Goaltending) and Steve Brown (Brown Performance Coaching and Co-Founder of Fuel).  In the first episode of the season, Brian and Steve focus on Hockey Goalies, Coaching: Process vs. Outcome, Start of the Season, Recovering from a Tough First Weekend, Car Coaching, Constructive Feedback. and Goal Setting.  This is the first in a series of monthly podcasts presented by Fuel Athletic Success Training.  Our mission at Fuel is to provide athletes with the skills necessary to be successful in and out of competition through a systematic approach to training confidence, competitiveness, character and commitment.  For more information visit, http://FuelAthleticTraining.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fuelathletictraining/support

Fuel Podcast - S01 E01: Goal Setting

Fuel Athletic Success Training © combines daily video primers, weekly assignments, and a monthly podcast to help maximize our athlete’s potential in the four additives of success: Confidence, Competitiveness, Character and Commitment. Fuel partners with leading coaches to provide position and sport specific mental skills training for high school, college and professional athletes. The result, Fuel athletes build their capacity to perform their best when it matters most. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fuelathletictraining/support