All I can say is,
I have been developed as, and have developed, high end Olympic or near Olympic level athletes. Trained and competed against Olympic level athletes. Lived around and been in relationships with Olympic level athletes.
I knew their coaches and how they trained and were treated.
Being treated like a piece of #### by your coaches and trainers did not make them/me a high level athlete. And anyone coach that tells you they need to do that, is a garbage coach who is on a power trip and gets off making people feel like #### so they can feel powerful.
But it can certainly make you a low level person and create issues that you will have to deal with the rest of your life outside of sports.
You don't need to be treated poorly to be pushed to your limits. You can train someone hard, to the limits of their endurance, strength and will power, without degrading them.
Being a hardass is a cop out. And I will never agree with those tactics. They are detrimental to mental health and confidence, which are an athletes greatest enemy.
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