Every Rep Should Make the Next Rep Smarter.
XFactor connects your athlete’s goals, skills, coaching, training history, and feedback so every experience helps clarify what they need next.
Every experience should make the next decision smarter.
- 01OBSERVE
- 02UNDERSTAND
- 03PRIORITIZE
- 04TRAIN
- 05MEASURE
- 06UPDATE
Training is not the end of the process. What happens during training becomes new information for what comes next.
Know where they want to go and where they are now.
Athlete Goals
Development starts with what the athlete actually wants to accomplish. Goals provide direction without dictating every training decision.
Development Evaluation
Establish a clearer picture of current ability, strengths, weaknesses, and immediate opportunities for improvement.
The skill you see fail is not always the skill that needs work.
XFactor models skills as connected capabilities rather than an unrelated list of ratings.
Illustrative connection, not a mandatory linear progression.
A missed finish may be a shooting problem. It may also begin earlier with catching position, footwork, balance, separation, recognition, or another connected skill. Understanding those relationships helps us train the constraint instead of only repeating the outcome.
Every coach and every session adds useful context.
Coach Feedback
Observations from private, school, club, and other coaches can contribute to the same developmental picture.
Training History
Recent sessions, workouts, completed work, and previous priorities help prevent every experience from starting over.
Skill Development
Skill Tree ratings and Learn, Game, Maintain status show what the athlete is currently developing.
More things to improve does not mean more things to train.
An athlete may have many opportunities for improvement. Personalization requires choosing the priority that creates the most useful next step while coaches retain judgment.
- Athlete goals
- Connected skill relationships
- Current ratings
- Coach judgment
- Recent work
- Training history
- Available equipment
- Time available
- Current development state
The same skill does not always need the same kind of practice.
LEARN
Build or change the underlying capability with an environment appropriate for learning it.
GAME
Challenge the skill with decisions, timing, pressure, contact, competition, or other representative conditions.
MAINTAIN
Keep an established skill sharp without taking unnecessary time away from higher priorities.
Two athletes working on the same skill may need completely different training because they are at different stages of learning.
What happens next becomes part of what we know.
The small loop improves what happens during today’s repetitions. The larger loop improves which repetitions the athlete receives tomorrow.
The plan determines the training. Not the other way around.
At Home
Purposeful repetition when independent work is appropriate.
Private Training
Individual coaching when feedback and focused instruction matter most.
Small Group
More interaction, decisions, pressure, and competition.
Team and Competition
Representative environments where skills must transfer into the actual game.
XFactor is not designed to replace the lacrosse your athlete already plays. It helps make those experiences work together.
The more we learn, the more useful the next decision can become.
An evaluation gives us a starting point. Sessions, workouts, feedback, and progress continue adding context. Instead of restarting every time your athlete trains, the development picture evolves with them.
Nothing starts over.
Built around how skills are actually learned.
XFactor is informed by principles from skill acquisition, motor learning, feedback, progressive challenge, representative practice, and individualized instruction. We use those principles to help coaches create training environments appropriate for what the athlete is trying to learn and where they are in that process.
XFactor connects the pieces around the athlete.
The First Step Is Understanding Your Athlete.
Start with a free individual evaluation. We’ll identify where your athlete is now, what they want to accomplish, and what deserves attention first.
