Lessons Learned Through Baseball - Charles Schultz

Patrick Jones Baseball

How to Achieve Greatness

Charles Schultz is the Owner of Super Fit Ohio and Edge of Greatness Podcast. Charles has always been enthusiastic about the pursuit of excellence, both personally and in coaching others.

He talks about why is it important to have relationships and build connections with players.

He shares why coaches should have real conversations and open the door for players to understand that all these little things that they're working on are a specific part of their journey towards their ultimate goal.

He talks about how players should sacrifice to achieve excellence in the field.

Learn about the importance of proper mentality before and during the game.

SHOW NOTES:

[2:42] What does that mean to be great?

[4:01] Building a system and then following through on the system.

[4:29] When you're working with athletes they obviously want to be great so how do you go about instilling that in them and making it so it's applicable to them at their age?

[5:47] Do you think it's really though sacrificing some of those other things like hanging out with friends or is it more so when they're just working harder and they're more focused?

[7:42] From a hitting coach standpoint right where it's like we want these guys to be confident in the box and that comes from preparation of course but it also comes from you know feeling like you're part of a group or a community and I think having friends is important too.

[10:28] Did you go back your junior year to what you were doing your freshman year or did you stay course the entire the rest of the way?

[11:02] Why do you think you decided to change course after your freshman?

[12:52] Do you think that if you would have went to a bigger school where there's more competition and you wouldn't have been able to be comfortable?

[14:55] Where were you thinking about transferring to?

[16:33] There are opportunities south at smaller schools that are considered d2.

[16:55] When you graduate after your senior year did you have any independent opportunities to continue playing baseball?

[18:37] How important age is in professional baseball?

[19:30] If you feel like you're ready to move on and you're ready to roll, and from a strength conditioning standpoint too when did that start taking place right after you got done playing?

[20:22] What's it like at your facility give us some background on like how you go about what's the system like there when it comes to kids coming in to train?

[21:44] What do you like better the lifting part or working with hitters?

[22:26] What's the smartest thing you've ever done as a coach?

[22:37] On the flip side, what's the one thing that you did as a coach that you know maybe was like a failure but you learned from it made you a better coach?

[24:41] On the business side of your strength conditioning business that you have, what are some of the things that maybe have surprised you since you owned a business?

[25:57] What's your vision?

[30:27] High school baseball's tough.

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