Chipper Anderson, MS, CSCS

Contextual Performance 💭

A client stopped me mid-sentence recently. I’d said the word performance, and before I could finish the thought, she cut in.

“I’m far from an athlete.”
I hear some version of that constantly.

Performance gets associated with sport before anyone questions the assumption.

Here’s what years of coaching people who aren’t your traditional “athletes” has shown me:

The underlying qualities don’t change much.
Strength.
Endurance.
Composure.
Focus.
Recovery.

An operator needs these.
A parent needs these.
A business professional needs these.

What changes is the demand placed on those qualities.

That’s the actual job of coaching, in my experience.

Not deciding which qualities matter. Those are largely universal.
It’s figuring out how they need to be expressed for the person in front of you.

Define the demands.
Then train the qualities to meet them.

The qualities are universal.
The application is contextual.

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