ABOUT
Observations gathered across years in Division I athletics and professional sport that ultimately led to the creation of Objective Performance Method.
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What I Kept Noticing
What I kept noticing was that athletes with similar goals, similar programs, and sometimes nearly identical training environments would often produce very different outcomes.
Some improved exactly as expected. Some improved more than expected. Others failed to respond at all.
Same intervention. Different outcome.
That pattern kept showing up regardless of sport, level, or environment. The longer I coached, the harder it became to believe that the program itself was the most important variable.
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What It Taught Me
The program itself was never the variable that mattered most. What mattered was the information being used, or not used, to make decisions about that program. How someone was moving. How they were recovering. How they were responding. What they were telling me.
Two athletes could be on the exact same plan and be in completely different situations underneath it. The program was visible. The decision-making behind it wasn't, not to the athlete, and often not to other coaches watching from outside either.
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Why I Built OPM
For years, that process lived mostly in my head.
Observations became decisions. Decisions became interventions. Interventions created new information. And the cycle repeated.
OPM is my attempt to make that decision-making process visible.
Not because I believe there is one correct answer for every athlete.
But because I believe coaching improves when the reasoning behind decisions can be observed, examined, and understood.
OPM is that process made explicit rather than hidden behind a program.
Eric Schmitt is the founder of Objective Performance Method, with over 15 years of experience coaching athletes in Division I athletics and the NBA.
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OPM takes on a limited number of private coaching clients at a time. The application process exists because coaching works best when there is a strong fit between the athlete, their goals, and the coaching relationship.
Applications are reviewed individually. You can expect to hear back within 5 business days. If there appears to be a fit, we will schedule a discovery call to discuss your goals, history, and what the coaching relationship could look like.
