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CLuBsNsW uPDATe MAx POTEnTIAL: Coaching for Success Maybe it’s millennium angst; today’s daunting surfeit of choice, higher societal expectations or more demanding work environments. Whatever the case, there’s a new hunt for direction and meaning going on for literally thousands of people across our communities. Mix this self-development fervour and one of the leading outcomes is an explosion of coaching and mentoring. Coaching is now the fastest growing form of helping find self-clarity. Growth in the number of people wanting to push self-imposed limits, plumb untapped potential, or gain greater satisfaction from life is being met by a rash of new service suppliers, and thanks to the Max Potential program, clubs are now delivering stellar support and results for their local communities. Max Potential connects community leaders with emerging young leaders (aged between 17 years and 25 years) to accelerate their potential to achieve over 22 weeks, challenge them to lift their game through eight hours of personalised coaching, build their ‘can do’ attitude through a community service project of their choice, and to explore their entrepreneurial spirit through developing their leadership. So, why would emerging young leaders need this kind of one-on-one self-realisation support service? One of the main premises (and promises) of Max Potential is that we could all do a bit better than we’re doing – if we could just figure out exactly what it is we want to do and bowl those (often self- imposed) barriers to actually getting on with it. And just like ourselves, our emerging young leaders also have within them the ingredients for performing bigger or better, with a lighter heart or stronger purpose. Problem is, many of them have lost the recipe or the hunger, can’t focus on the full menu, or are quite possibly sitting at the wrong table...and need some direction to steer them back onto the right path. Enter the Max Potential coach, whose job is to help our emerging young leaders clarify where they want to be, establish a framework for getting there, and keep them purposefully headed that way. That this process is as relevant to everything they do in life be it work or simply life in general relates to the growing realisation that people at every level also bring more into their workplace than their relevant work skills. They have a bundle of ambitions and inhibitions, strengths and needs, values and beliefs – all of which have a bearing on how they perform in a range of roles both in and out of the office Back in 2005, the University of Western Sydney (Macarthur Campus) sourced Federal Government funding to conduct Max Potential programs, and a year later Deniliquin RSL was the first club stORy OLIVIeR BJöRKsäTeR-BLeyLOCK phOtOs BeN syMONs Max Potential is a club-based program enabling clubs to maximise their engagement with local communities through connections with young people. The Edge takes a closer look at how this program can benefit the local community. 28 // the edge // nswis.com.au in New South Wales to launch Max Potential in their local area, achieving incredible results in a short period of time. Today, Max Potential has been welcomed across a number of clubs including the Barrier Social Democratic Club, Broken Hill Legion Club, Broken Hill Musicians Club, Broken Hill Sturt Club, Castle Hill RSL, Club Mudgee, Club Taree, Dooleys Lidcombe Catholic Club, Finley Returned Soldiers Club, Gosford RSL, Liverpool Catholic Club, Mingara Recreation Club, Norths, Port Macquarie Westport Club, Seagulls Club, Silver City Workingmens Club, Singleton Returned Soldiers Club, St Johns Park Bowling Club, and Tuncurry Bowling Club. So, how does it make a difference to our emerging young leaders? I caught up with Max Potential program facilitator, Wayne Deeth of Future Achievement Australia. “The difference between coaching and other guidance methods is significant. While counselling offers suggestions and expertise in the name of improvement, coaching employs techniques that explore and uncover a person’s own power and direction. A coach is a key to unlocking what one already knows,” explains Deeth. “There are three fundamental principles in the coaching offered through Max Potential – we really listen to and identify with our young leaders and what’s important to them – not what should be but what really is. Then we use that in guiding the choices that they’re making. What we see is that they have intuitive wisdom. They have knowledge of what the future is for them now, and how they want it to be. But they may have old habits that aren’t aligned with their more intuitive direction. Importantly, a Max Potential coach won’t tell people how to get what they want. The philosophy is that they know exactly how to get what they want for themselves...we simply help them realise and achieve it. Coaching is one of the most effective forms of leadership development, and one that meets all of the needs of youth as learners.” So, if you’re interested in joining the Max Potential program as a mentor to tomorrow’s young leaders, contact Maria Peña at ClubsNSW today on 02 9268 3010 or email mpena@clubsnsw.com.au. n
Recovery THE Nap stORy CHRIs JONes phOtOs GeTTy IMAGes is one of the most important parts of an athlete’s training routine. Whether it is hydration, physical therapy or “Recovery sleep, proper recovery enables an athlete to perform at their best during multiple training sessions each day,” said NSWIS Principal Scientist Kenneth Graham. The recent study by Daniel Davies was part of his honours thesis and supervised by Dr Chin Moi Chow of the Discipline of Exercise & Sport Science at the University of Sydney and Graham. It focused on endurance based athletes, with the intent to assess how well athletes sleep following a morning endurance training session. These assessments included researching the time of day they started their nap, as well as the time between their training session and nap. “Understanding the impact of endurance training on sleep patterns is an important part of developing an athlete’s training program,” explained Graham. “Historically, for example at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, athletes compete in finals at night. When we were planning the research we took that into account and asked, ‘what impact will that have on an athlete’s sleeping pattern?’ and the research developed from there.” The six athletes involved in the study performed a standardised 90 minute endurance training session before taking a recovery nap at either 10:30am or 11:30am, for one or two hours. A number of conclusions and results were drawn from the research, which will ultimately provide coaches and athletes with a strategy to incorporate a recovery nap into their regular training routine. For example, the naps beginning at 11:30am showed a greater amount of slow wave, or deep sleep, than the naps beginning at 10:30am. This wasn’t due to the nap being at a two hour interval to training, but because the DID yOu KNOW? There are benefits, under the right conditions, of using sleep as a recovery tool. It is not uncommon to hear athletes say they are going home for a nap during the middle of the day before returning to the gym for yet another training session. Sleep is obviously an important part of everyday life, but until now the effects of a daytime recovery nap have remained unexplored. athlete who was tested had been awake for an hour longer. “The results indicate that it’s more beneficial to nap post endurance training, rather than not having one.” “The research team looked at previous research and different variables from other research on sleep patterns. The key with this study was that while there is a lot of sleep research in other areas, identifying the impact of prior endurance training on sleep patterns was completely original,” said Graham, identifying that the study is a world first. In identifying the impact of endurance training on sleep, Graham is able to then work in conjunction with coaches at the NSWIS to introduce sleep as a recovery tool for athletes’ training. In sport, where millimetres may mean the difference between a win and loss, taking every available opportunity counts. Graham identified further positives from the research, saying that the world first study is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to sleep research. “This stage of research could essentially be the first step of the next wave of sleep research. We could look at the impact of shorter, high intensity workouts on sleep, or the impact of an afternoon sleep on night time sleep.” The studies’ findings are easily transferable to those who are just looking to get the most from their training and subsequent recovery and demonstrate that regardless of skill level, taking a morning nap after an endurance workout will aid recovery. The best recovery, as the research suggested, comes from naps taken later in the morning regardless of how long after training it occurs. Don’t feel guilty if you’re tired and feel the need to nap after your next endurance workout. Under the right conditions, making sleep a regular part of recovery will ultimately benefit you. n nswis.com.au // the edge // 29
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