The 5-minute locker room protocol I run with state champions. Read the team. Reset the team. Re-engage the team. Coach-to-coach. No fluff.
Read. Reset. Re-engage.
The halftime protocol that wins quarters.
Coach-to-coach. No fluff.
By Coach Varsay Lewis, M.Ed.
Founder, Apex Athletic Mind
apexathleticmind.com
Green / Yellow / Red — know which team you walked in on before you open your mouth.
Minute by minute. Read. Re-anchor. One truth. Individuals. Walk-out cue.
When the quarter went badly: Recognize. Reframe. Re-engage — before any X’s and O’s.
Walking in and reading the zone in the first 30 seconds is the highest-leverage move you make all halftime. Mis-read it and your speech makes things worse.
— Coach Varsay Lewis, M.Ed.
The locker room at halftime isn’t one room. It’s three. Your job in the first 30 seconds is to figure out which one you walked into — Green, Yellow, or Red.
Get the read right and the next 4 minutes write themselves. Get it wrong and your strategy talk lands in a flooded nervous system, and the team comes out worse than they went in. Reset first, then teach.
This protocol shows you how.
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