Coaching practices for Lmx Training

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• There are people on my team I’ve quietly written off
• My boss took a real chance on me and advocated for me, and I just took it and moved on without ever closing the loop
• I keep waiting for my manager to notice me and hand me more trust, and it’s not happening
• The people I’m training just go through the reps I dictate, checked-out and joyless, and I dictate every detail because I assume that’s my job
• There’s a pace I can hold comfortably and then a wall I hit fast where my legs flood and I have to back off, and that wall hasn’t moved in ages

Practices that may help

1. Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
   Leader-member exchange theory, developed by George Graen and Mary Uhl-Bien, holds that leaders do not treat all followers the same — they develop distinct dyadic relationships ranging from high-LMX (trust, respect, mutual obligation) to low-LMX (formal, exchange-based). High-LMX relationships are consistently associated with better performance, satisfaction, and career outcomes in observational research.
2. Deliberately expand your inner circle
   Move team members from low-LMX to high-LMX through intentional relationship investment.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
3. Reciprocate when your leader invests in you
   When a leader gives you trust, opportunity, or advocacy, close the loop with visible follow-through.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
4. Invest in the relationship before you need it
   Build relational credit through reliability and initiative, not charm or performance alone.
   Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), Made Practical
5. Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training
   Lojong is a Tibetan Buddhist mind-training system, codified by Atisha and later Chekawa, built around 59 slogans that train the mind to transform adversity into awakening and to cultivate compassion for all beings including oneself. Evidence is primarily contemplative-clinical; some practices (loving-kindness, tonglen-adjacent exercises) have been studied, but the full system is practitioner tradition rather than a clinical protocol.
6. Give performers choice within practice to support autonomy
   Offer self-directed options in practice — which drill, how many reps, which cue — to enhance intrinsic motivation and learning.
   External Focus of Attention, Made Practical
7. Lactate threshold training
   Train at the intensity just below where lactate spikes to push your sustainable pace higher.
   VO2 Max and Longevity: The Peter Attia Framework
8. Pair zone 2 with occasional high-intensity work in an 80/20 polarized structure
   Most training volume in zone 2, a small fraction at near-maximal intensity — skip the moderate middle.
   Zone 2 Training
9. Train at 40-60% of maximum — the sub-maximal effort rule
   Each GTG set should feel easy: you stop well before any form breakdown or perceived effort.
   Greasing the Groove, Made Practical
10. Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind
    Perceptual learning is the improvement of discrimination and recognition through practice — training the perceptual system to detect distinctions that were previously invisible. Philip Kellman’s research shows it can be induced rapidly with well-designed training software and produces durable, transfer-ready expertise that complements conceptual instruction.

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