Don't Tell Me Show Me

If your session plan gets written in the car park 15 minutes before training, you’re making coaching harder than it needs to be. In part two of our Plan Do Review series, we show grassroots and development coaches how a short planning cycle, clear targets and a plan for your own behaviour make planning quicker and easier. Built for coaches juggling a day job who want sessions that connect from week to week.

Most coaches plan their drills, get through the session and move on, and then wonder why they aren’t improving faster. This opening episode of the Plan-Do-Review series breaks the cycle down: preparing your content, thinking and behaviour; adapting in action instead of sticking to the script; and reviewing without judging success by whether you finished the plan. It’s for coaches at any level who want a system for getting better, not just more sessions on the clock. Episode 70 of the Don’t Tell Me Show Me podcast with Mark Bennett and Simon Turner.

Every drill, water break and timeout is a design choice, but are you designing for learning or just for compliance? This episode explores self-regulated learning, interleaving, and why the quiet moments in practice may matter as much as the intense ones. For coaches ready to look at their sessions through a learning lens.

Your athletes can't stop negative thoughts showing up under pressure, but they can take control of how they respond. Sport psychologist Dan Abrahams explains the "game face", a competitive persona athletes start in, stay in and return to, and why competing isn't the same as winning. For coaches who want players to own their mindset and review performance against what they actually control.

Everyone agrees that managing our state matters, until something goes wrong and the coach is the first to lose it. This one is for coaches who want a practical framework for managing their own state and building self-regulation into their team, not just talking about it. Part 3 of our series on self-regulation - ep. 67 of the Don’t Tell Me Show Me podcast with Mark Bennett and Simon Turner.