If you don't try learn from your mistakes, you'll never improve as acoach. Nick and I often reflect on our coaching to see what went well, what didn't, and what we want to try going forward. No time is better to do this than the start of the year. On this week's episode we look back on 2025 and also look forward to what we'll be trying differently in 2026.

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More notes:

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• We mentioend the upcoming release of Vern Gambetta's new book Building the Complete Athlete: A Coach's Guide to Athletic Development. You can preorder it exclusively on HMMR Media.
• We also referenced the work of the late Anatoliy Bondarchuk. We'll have more about him in the coming weeks, including a free webinar on his training methods. In the meantime you can read a few words about his death here, and learn about his training methods in HMMR Classroom Lesson 1.
• We've done similar season and year debriefs on past episodes such as Episode 205, Episode 117, Episode 110, and Episode 30.