In-season strength training isn’t about chasing numbers. It’s about protecting what you built.
The off-season is where you push the ceiling.
The season is where you keep the floor from collapsing.
Pull strength work completely and you don’t “stay fresh.” You slowly lose
@PratikxPatel What if an athlete/ person has had a shifted circadian rhythm? Meaning the still get ample or appropriate rest and quality with consistency, there sleep schedule is just moved past midnight? Wouldn’t we see those people still getting plenty of growth hormone in their first phase?
The amount of teams/coaches still making college athletes wake up at 6 am (or earlier) to train, lift, & practice is 🤯🤯🤯.
The data are incredibly clear here.
Bad idea.
Developing mastery is a long process, arguably never ending.
With more information today it’s hard for young professionals to tell which is which sometimes.
Which makes it more important for those with the expertise to share it and grow the next generation.
Most things just need to be done —
I used to like the phrase, “How you do anything is how you do everything.”
Doing the little things right is important. But there’s not enough time in the world to do everything well. Some things just need to be done.
You don’t approach buying groceries the same way you approach creating and preparing for a big presentation at work. You shouldn’t approach those things the same way. No matter how “well” you get your groceries, at the end of the day, if the groceries are in your pantry, you did your job.
Paying bills is like this, too. Sure, there are ways to be efficient and strategic in paying your bills, but all that matters is if your bills got paid. How they got paid doesn’t matter.
I once read that a good measure of one’s maturity is how organized their sock drawer was. Because people don’t expect anyone to look at their sock drawer, having it organized shows they have integrity and care about doing the small things well. When I first learned that, I thought it was genius. But now I think it just means you spend too much time organizing your sock drawer.
Some things need to be done well, but a lot of things just need to be done. Don’t confuse the two.
During the offseason, Ryan Cotter joined the Philadelphia Union as the new Head of Performance. His work and experience are already paying dividends and are appreciated by Jim Curtin.
Here is what Curtin had to say:
"I will give credit to our sports performance department. Our fitness level, I thought, was at a really good level. Ryan Cotter and Joe Trocchio do a really good job to get the boys ready to play. It got stronger as the game went on, which, you know, with them being eight games into their season and us playing our first, that was surprising. I really liked our fitness level."
Cotter joined the Union after spending six years with Real Salt Lake, and it seems like his work is already paying dividends.
#DOOP #RSL #MLS
CC: @CoachCotter2