Pete Edwards

Health & Performance Coach. | Founder Thrive HM & Edwards Performance. | 20+ EU and World Championship Medals In 5 sports.
Elevating Health & Performance.

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

@stevemagness Amen. 80% of training is relatively modest, refining skill. 20% is brutally hard, pushing capacity.

Most recreational athletes have lows that are too high and highs that are too low, resulting in mediocre training, and mediocre results.

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

6 things you know will improve your health but aren’t doing. It’s worth exploring why!?

More sleep
More leisure
More water
Less alcohol
Less caffeine
Less sugar

Make one change per week, make it stick. You’ll feel so much better.

Caffeine is my nemesis. What’s yours?

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

@Jamell Easy Jammies.

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

@plexiface Wow I look so serious! The leather gloves make it a bit sinister don’t they 😂

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

“You know you’ve got a true compromise when both sides are completely unhappy”.

Heard this yesterday and have to say, it sounds about right 🤔

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@coachblueprint1 You think your 50yo self will look back at that statement and nod appreciatively or shake at the thought that you it all worked out? (Serious question, not trolling)

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

“Pigeons and chickens are birds, snakes and lizards are rectangles” -my 3 yr old.

😂

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

Performance is:
Capacity - Contamination.

As a general rule increasing capacity takes time. Reducing contamination is faster, although less frequently employed.

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

@PratikxPatel Clearly, sir, you have not discovered morello cherry jam.

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Today, was a good day ☺️

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@Coach_BrettB Listening

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

It is a profound waste, to spend one’s life worrying about its end.

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

@Jamell How did you interpret it?

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

Secondly, the false sense of importance things take on for no other reason than that you focused on them. Did your attention improve because of the new supplement? Or because you were more cognisant of the quality of your attention?

Focus on what is important.

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You are not so fragile that you need to optimise every aspect of your life to perform.

If you’re any good, you can perform in sub optimal situations.

I often see the relentless pursuit of “optimisation” turn toxic.

2 more in the thread to explain specifically how;

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

Firstly, the focus on optimisation leads to more time being spent optimising than necessary. It becomes a distraction in itself and takes away from actual practice. Becoming more efficient at ineffective things, focussing on minutia, creates a fog over what’s actually important

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@richardhusseiny Absolutely no disagreement from me there. Team sports can be a hard environment in which to to say “no”

[Pete Edwards @CoachEdwardsUK]

@CTsportsci I suppose it depends on the nature of the note. I can’t go to the shop for more than 4 things without writing it down, so I see your point.