Giving your athletes guidance on every possible situation that they can run into is the Hydra’s Head. Whether it’s nutrition or performance, a couple things are going to happen:

• The athlete encounters a new situation for which he is not prepared.  He commits spontaneous discorporation.

• The athlete brings to the coach a new situation. They haven’t been instructed in how to handle it. The coach breaks out in Vesti La Giubba.

The best we can do when encountering a new situation is guess with an end state in mind: try to get fitter. We re-test that attempt and either use it or throw it away based on it’s efficacy and efficiency.

Adiemantus: Good men need no orders, they will find out easily enough what legislation is in general necessary.

Adiemantus: Otherwise they will spend their whole time making and correcting detailed regulations of the sort you’ve described, always expecting to achieve perfection. -Republic, Book IV

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