paul cater

MSc Middlesex Uni, London. Wasps Rugby 05-2010 Baltimore Orioles MLB 2012-2018 Father, husband, strength coach

[Brandon Davis, CSCS @Brandon_L_Davis]

@DillonMartinez More opinions should be centered around whether or not things are almost objectively awesome.

Like people that try to stay nerd Kobe out or being top 5 all time. He was fun to watch, had aura, and Lil Wayne and Chief Keef have songs about him. That trumps advanced stats

[Jeremy Toohey @Toohey_sp]

Youth athlete psychology and communication are areas that aren’t discussed enough.

Real coaching should reach beyond athletic development.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Mike Brown shares a simple but powerful definition of winning in life.

"Even if you don't have the quote unquote ultimate success that you think you deserve - if you get knocked down in life and you're able to get back up and keep fighting - that's a fricking win."

"Most of our guys have probably had to go through that. But I think most people in the world have to go through it."

Success isn't always the result - sometimes it's just refusing to stay down.

It's choosing to endure, get back up, and keep fighting.

Successful people are relentless.
(🎥SNY )

[Global News 24 @GlobalNews_24]

Арнольд Шварценеггер: "Знаешь, почему большинство талантливых людей так и остаются никем? Они включают фальшивую скромность. Они говорят: «Я творец, я просто делаю свою работу. Пускай мир сам меня заметит».

Это чушь. Ты можешь быть гением, создавать лучшие продукты или писать шедевры. Но если люди об этом не знают, у тебя ничего нет. Абсолютный ноль. Твой талант просто умрёт вместе с тобой.

Умение продавать, продвигать себя. Доносить свою ценность до других и убеждать — это не грязное ремесло. Это величайшее искусство, без которого ты никто.

Чем больше людей узнают о том, на что ты способен, тем ближе ты к вершине. Перестань прятаться в тени. Выходи и учись заявлять о себе на весь мир. Твой успех зависит только от этого"

[Sean Light @SLight20]

This means, the individual who has adopted the Type-A personality has adopted a neurological state of emergency as their baseline.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Pat Riley shares what culture really is - and why everyone has one whether they know it or not.

"Everybody has a culture. A culture is simply a shared vision of what it is you wanna do to get to where it is you wanna go."

"It's a shared vision of what you have to do to get there."

Culture isn't a slogan. It's a standard everyone commits to.

"It's up to the coach to create the philosophy."
"You can take each one of those acronyms - hard work, conditioning, toughness - and talk about that for 30 minutes. But it has to mean something."

Then he explained what great culture builders do:
"Once you set the tone about what your philosophy is going to be - you have to paint the picture. You paint the picture of what it's going to look like."

Words create the vision. Actions build the culture.

Culture isn’t what you say - it’s what you reinforce daily.

It's shaped by your actions and what you allow.
( 🎥The Why with @DwyaneWade)

[paul cater @Coach_Cater]

@Dipper_pol @coachgambetta Currently reading thinking fast and slow

[0xDipper @Dipper_pol]

Daniel Kahneman - the psychologist who won a Nobel in economics - spent his life proving one thing: your confidence is lying to you

A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. The answer "10 cents" jumps to mind instantly. It's wrong (it's 5 cents) - and ~50% of students at Harvard, MIT and Princeton say it without checking.

That gap is his whole point: the fast, intuitive mind builds a clean story from almost nothing, and the feeling of certainty has nothing to do with being right.

"Confidence is a feeling, not a judgment."

"Stock pickers can't develop intuition - there isn't enough regularity for it to form."

"You can build a very coherent story out of very little information."

~45 min, free. how your mind fools you - from a man who studied it for 50 years ↓

[Not Gaetti @notgaetti]

Drop whatever you’re doing, folks

Trey Mancini went 3 for 4 and drove in a run for the Angels in his first big league action since 2023, you absolutely love to see it!

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

A Saronic Corsair unmanned surface vessel rescued the Army AH-64 Apache crew after they crashed near the Strait of Hormuz in the waters of Oman yesterday, the first-ever rescue of downed aircrew by a drone boat -WSJ

[Jeremy Toohey @Toohey_sp]

Reading about the Soviets in the 80s is wild. 50 years later and there are areas of athlete development we still don’t understand like they did.

“Coaches who push children to win, rather than build skills, are chastised and may even lose their job.”

Meanwhile in the U.S., we’re chasing travel trophies with 8 year-olds.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

The brain does its best work right after movement.

Across hundreds of studies, even one bout of exercise sharpened attention, memory, processing speed, and executive function.

The boost is strongest after exercise, not during it.

[paul cater @Coach_Cater]

@Challenger_ST Agree
But I’m finding they are great for getting to higher loads under the bar quicker. Better than pre workout

[Coach Wayland | Performance Expert | Craftsman @WSWayland]

Discernment will be the one quality the AI revolution won’t touch.

It’s not just pattern recognition or probabilistic output. It’s judgment fused with wisdom, context, values, and that mysterious “felt sense” that comes from being a conscious entity navigating an uncertain world with skin in the game.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Novak Djokovic revealed his mental reset on the Lewis Howes podcast (2024).

When the match is falling apart, he goes straight to conscious breathing to snap back into the present. He says 80% of the battle is won before he even steps on the court, through gratitude, connecting to a higher force, and remembering you can’t control what happens, only your reaction to it.

Hearing one of the greatest tennis players ever talk about breathing and inner strength as his real edge was powerful.

The top performers don’t just train their bodies, they master their minds. These tools are simple and available to anyone.

Do you have a go-to mental reset when pressure hits, or are you still looking for one?

[paul cater @Coach_Cater]

@JrdnMcFarland @CryptoMikli Same with cardio
Same body fat as just sauna

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Children remember the moments when the family becomes fully alive.

That is the core. Vacation is just the common vessel.

A child does not encode childhood as a spreadsheet of responsible parenting.

They encode atmosphere.

They remember the motel pool, the gas station stop, the smell of sunscreen, the weird restaurant, the long drive, the sunset, the parents laughing differently, the feeling that normal life cracked open and something larger appeared.

That is why ages 5 to 10 hit so hard. The child is old enough to form durable narrative memory and young enough for the world to remain enchanted. Parents still feel mythic. A beach, cabin, lake, theme park, road trip, or even a cheap rented house can become sacred geography.

The real mechanism is interruption of routine plus emotional safety.

Ordinary life teaches stability. Trips create myth. The family leaves the repeating loop of school, work, chores, screens, exhaustion, and time pressure. For a few days, the child experiences parents outside their normal roles. Mom and dad are no longer just managers of homework, food, discipline, bedtime, and logistics. They become companions inside an adventure.

That imprints.

The money matters far less than parents think. Luxury is mostly adult vanity. Children remember intensity, freedom, attention, surprise, and togetherness. A $200 trip can beat a $10,000 trip if the child feels wonder and the parents are emotionally present.

Many adults are starved because their childhood had no sacred interruptions. Everything was duty, stress, survival, noise, pressure, or emotional absence. No mythic family scenes. No private homeland in memory. No recurring proof that life could be warm and strange and alive.

That matters for the adult psyche. People draw from childhood memories during loneliness, fear, ambition, loss, and love. Those memories become inner architecture.

Deepest compression: a good childhood is not built only by protection. It is built by unforgettable shared worlds.

Take the kid somewhere. Break the loop.

Make the ordinary world disappear for a few days.

That becomes part of them forever.

[paul cater @Coach_Cater]

@zbritton Moneyball 2

[Zack Britton @zbritton]

It's not analytical baseball or old school baseball. If you can only understand one side, that's a big problem. This age of baseball is about blending the two together. Analytics are a tool to help maximize a roster, identify strengths and weaknesses in a player without bias or emotion. If used correctly, it's a tool to help player performance. Once the game begins, it's about “old school" baseball. Preventing runs defensively/pitching and scoring runs on offense. It's that simple. It's about the fundamentals of the game. Finding a way as a player that day to win every at-bat I take or pitch I throw. Days when I free great, days when I feel terrible. Understanding what it takes physically and mentally to do that is just as important as understanding spin rate, launch angle, wOBA, OPS+, etc.

[Coach Wayland | Performance Expert | Craftsman @WSWayland]

‘many players lean on physios and golf fitness experts who fix issues but don’t always “steel the athlete” with heavy compounds and power work for peak performance.’