Why I Want To Be An Athlete

I have a talented but young athlete who wants to become an Olympian someday. I want to help this athlete to reach their goal. The first thing I want the athlete to do is understand that they will need to have patience and be fully motivated because Olympians are like experts in their sport. Research has shown that it takes about ten years to become an expert. Also I want the athlete to know that I believe in them and that it will be a journey that we will take together until we reach the Olympics.
Next, I want the athlete to do is to eventually be engaged in deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is when experts engage in a specific type of practice that is quantifiably different from non-experts which then leads to increased high-level performance (pg. 222). However, since the athlete is young I want them to have a low frequency of deliberate practice and high frequency of deliberate play. Deliberate play is a type of sport involvement young athletes engage in during their early years in which activities involve direct competition and are constrained by rules (pg. 222).
Throughout the time the athlete is in deliberate practice I want the athlete to

224). Whether it is goals for their nutrition, warm up, drills, cool down, and also develop short and long term goals. I want to explain to the athlete that just showing up and being physically present at practice will not improve their performance because experts know better (pg. 224). Before each practice I will talk to the athlete to see what their goals are for the practice and then help them reach the goals throughout practice. Then after practice ask the athlete if they feel like they reached the goals or not and how we could do better the next time. When they reach a certain number of goals I want to reward the athlete to help them stay motivated and excited to make themselves want to come back to the sport and improve themselves each