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Winners Get to Run

Scott Rosberg on positive conditioning: why punishing kids with sprints contradicts everything you tell them about fitness — and what happens when running becomes the reward.

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A Proactive Coaching podcast conversation between Lori Thomas and Proactive Coaching speaker Scott Rosberg — a 30-plus-year basketball, football, and soccer coach and former athletic director — about the Team Building Through Positive Conditioning presentation and booklet. Topics covered: the contradiction of asking kids to embrace conditioning while punishing them with it; how Bruce Brown's positive conditioning concept reframes conditioning as a privilege; setting it up with athletes on day one; running for your makes instead of your misses; coaches' constant verbal praise of full effort; why timed sprints punish the kids giving the most effort (the sideline-17s and football linemen examples); "winners get to run"; and how to hold kids accountable without using conditioning as punishment.

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