if you’ve ever watched a team rally and come back from a huge deficit, then you’ve seen people in group flow.

The social psychologist in me always wants to point out that context is really what makes people work as a team versus stab each other in the back.

Weightlifting might be an individual sport, but it is best trained for in a group setting. Here are the reasons I believe the most successful lifters came from a real team setting.

Hidden curriculum refers to the lessons, habits of mind, and accepted behaviors members of a group pick up by observation. Learn how to discover and guide these behaviors as a coach.