FUNGOMAN JOURNAL

You've noticed your team is disjointed. Your players are self-focused. All the attention is on one or two guys that are obsessed with their numbers. What do you do? The most successful teams have intangible secrets with combatting this problem, and we're about to share them with you. First thing: You have the power to nurture your team's chemistry. Keep in mind that the winning teams aren't always the most talented. The most unified and selfless teams make up for deficiencies with the sharing of encouragement and bettering each other's skills. Just look at the Toronto Blue Jay's story. Your team chemistry is about to get a whole lot better.

I've seen a lot of baseball games in my day. And that's okay. I like seeing my team win, but when the alternative happens, a sense of powerlessness has a way of creeping in, you feel me? When teams lose, we usually find it rather easy to spot where things fell apart. And we're cavalierly quick to make mention of unsufficiencies and mistakes. But what about when the team wins. Do we make note of how that triumph came together? Do we notice the small things that kept the momentum of success in the palm of the coach and player's hands? I've written the first installment of a 3-part blog series covering Baseball Team Intangibles That Win Games, which usually go unexamined in this game. The idea is that once you get a hold of the intangibles of championship teams, you'll be more empowered to nurture those attributes in your own. Let's walk through the first intangible together ...

Think the way you train your players ensures the best results? What if we told you athletes use only a small percentage of their potential musculature range? The truth remains that the market for sport specific training is booming, meaning you get to add to your repertoire of how you train your champs-in-the-making.