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ANDREW WEIBRECHT, an Olympic skier for the United States, won a
bronze medal in 2010, and the silver medal in the 2014 Olympics. His advice:
To me it has more to do with sacrifice and taking advantage of

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opportunity when opportunity is presented than management in a sense.
The sport that I do is so all consuming in terms of travel and commitment
that when I am training and competing that is all I focus on, and when I
am off sport I am totally detached. It is more about productive
compartmentalizing and making the most of the moment whether that is
time off/rest or sport.
ERIN HAMLIN, an Olympic luger for the United States, competed in the 2006
and 2010 Olympics, and won a bronze medal in 2014. Her advice:
When it comes to training, I guess I have just always prioritized it so it
was easy to make time for. It has also allowed me to put other things off
because training is more important at the time.
CHRIS CARMICHAEL, a cyclist for the United States, competed in the 1984
Olympics. His advice:
Rest is perhaps the most overlooked and undervalued aspect of time
management. In training we have to teach athletes to focus on prioritizing
quality over quantity, and to achieve higher training quality an athlete
has to be properly rested and recovered between hard efforts. Rest,
therefore, becomes part of training rather than the absence of training.
TOBY JENKINS, a water polo player for Australia, competed in the 2004
Olympics. Today he is CEO of Bluewire Media, a web strategy and digital
marketing firm. His advice:
Find someone whose work you trust and admire and who has already done
specifically what you want to do. Ask them for help and then filter their advice
for your own situation. It's not about saving an hour or there. It's about saving
you potentially years to get to goal.
I had some great water polo coaches throughout my career. Each had
strengths and weaknesses. My realization though, was that if I had a specific
challenge, then I needed a specific answer.
When I wanted to put on muscle, I didn't speak to my water polo coach. I spoke
to my strength coach, a discus and shot put guy who had put on more weight,
faster than anyone else I knew.

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When I was nervous before games, I'd speak to my captain who'd played
hundreds of internationals and learn from his pre-game routines.
When I wanted to improve my swimming speed and endurance, I went to a
swimming coach who was coaching some of Australia's fastest swimmers at
the time.
It all seems pretty obvious but being specific about the challenge you face and
then finding the specific person best in a position to help you accelerated my
learning enormously. It would be nearly impossible to quantify how many
hours this saved me over my career as an athlete, student and now in business.