CoachTristan__

Husband, Father, Football Coach at Glendale HS. John 15:13

[Missouri Helmet Project @HelmetMissouri]

Make sure to get registered asap for the first annual Culture Conference!

Going to be an awesome couple of days with some outstanding speakers.

Head to https://t.co/MkBdtaZ30n for details and to get registered!

[Glendale Baseball @GHSBaseballSPS]

Congratulations to Coach Tristan and the Glendale football team on being awarded the Sportsmanship Award by the SWMO Football Officials Association.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Mike Bianco said, "Once your commitment is greater than your feelings, that's when you get results. That's when it happens for you."

Most people never figure this out.

Commitment is a choice.

It's choosing long-term growth over short-term comfort.

[Wendi A. Irlbeck MS, RDN, LD, CISSN @Wendi_Irlbeck]

Male and female athletes who want to gain strength, speed, and power this summer should follow these 5 simple guidelines:

🔹7-9 hours of sleep per night.
🔹25-40g of protein 3-5x/day.
🔹100 oz of H20 minimum daily.
🔹5-7 g of creatine monohydrate post-training with carbs + protein.
🔹Avoid energy drinks, soda, vaping, tobacco, alcohol, fried foods, and candy.

[Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey]

“We always wanted a Track Kid over a Weight Room Kid.”

- Jim Tressel

[Glendale Baseball @GHSBaseballSPS]

Glendale defeats Republic 3-2. Kyle Julian and Reed Jackson with an RBI.
Easton Friesen with a quality start, and Sebastian Norman picks up the W in relief.

[Jason Romano @JasonRomano]

Best thing you’ll see today. Coach Buzz Williams publicly praying for his players as the season comes to an end. @TeamCoachBuzz

[NCAA Baseball @NCAABaseball]

BEARS BATTLED TO THE END!

@MoStateBSB scores 5 runs in the 9th to bring it to extras and upset No. 2 Arkansas!

#NCAABaseball

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn’t playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don’t worry about what you’re doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you’re going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady meet Greg Harden, a counselor who worked in the athletic department.

Brady went to Harden’s office and whined, “I’m never going to get my chance. They’re only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that’s what I did,” Brady said. “They’d put me in for those 2 reps, man, I’d sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. ‘Let’s go boys! Here we go! What play we got?’”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, he was getting 4 reps. Then 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, “with this new mindset that Greg had instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you’re getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it’s the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they’re stuck,” Cuban explained. “They’re stuck in a job they don't like. They’re stuck working for a boss they don’t like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, ‘Be great.’”

“The reality of life is that you can’t just always quit your job. You can’t just always go to your boss and say, ‘Give me the promotion, or I’m out of here.’” You can’t just always go to your coach and say, ‘Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.’

“So when you’re stuck, you’ve gotta find it within yourself to say, ‘Ok, this is where I am. And if I’m going to be here, I’m going to be great.’

Because if you’re great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

In the field of strategic management, there is a distinction made between “lead measures” and “lag measures.”

Lag measures are the results you’re trying to achieve: getting a promotion, winning a championship, being the starting quarterback. Lead measures are the actions that predictably drive those results. 

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of “The 4 Disciplines of Execution” write, is that “a lead measure can be directly influenced by you.” To achieve your goals, they write (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), “apply a disproportionate energy” to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did.

After he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?” 

Brady said he was aware of that, “and I know he’s a heck of a player. But I’ve always concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It didn’t. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

[CoachTristan__ @TristanCoach]

Great football player with a high ceiling.

[MNUFootball @MNUFootball_]

Welcome to the Pioneer family DB-Jayln Lockett. #T3

[Wendi A. Irlbeck MS, RDN, LD, CISSN @Wendi_Irlbeck]

Attention student athletes👇

How to outpace 50% of your competition for free!

• Go to bed early
• Wake up early
• Study your craft and watch film
• Avoid junk food and negativity
• Hang with the right crowd
• Drink water immediately on waking
• Ask more questions and be coachable
• Avoid alcohol, drugs, vaping and tobacco

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

"I wrote Proverbs 27:17 on my hand…Us and Ohio State were the two teams who praised Jesus Christ the most and I think we strengthened each other in our faith... I’m happy to see Godly men come out on top no matter what the circumstance is. I’m happy to praise Jesus in the lowest of lows."
- Notre Dame QB Riley Leonard after their National Championship loss vs Ohio State

(via @ItsJesseSimmons)

[Wendi A. Irlbeck MS, RDN, LD, CISSN @Wendi_Irlbeck]

Male and female athletes who want to gain strength, speed, and power heading into spring should follow these 5 simple guidelines:

🔹7-9 hours of sleep per night.
🔹25-40g of protein 3-5x/day.
🔹100 oz of H20 minimum daily.
🔹5-7 g of creatine monohydrate post-training with carbs + protein.
🔹Avoid energy drinks, soda, vaping, tobacco, alcohol, fried foods, and candy.

[CoachTristan__ @TristanCoach]

He’s a competitor and is just starting to touch his potential! Great Student and person as well!

[GHS Basketball Fan @GlendaleBBALL]

Best dunk in Glendale history? #JoelleRover @OzarksOzone @sgfsportsNL @DanielleRKing_ @Chris_Pinson_ @NeyenhouseTV @DanLucySports @missouri_sports @FalconsGlendale @AthleticsAtSPS @Antfletch5 @JacanSeats @COCsportsreport https://t.co/auCQhuDhxB

[GHS Basketball Fan @GlendaleBBALL]

Best dunk in Glendale history? #JoelleRover @OzarksOzone @sgfsportsNL @DanielleRKing_ @Chris_Pinson_ @NeyenhouseTV @DanLucySports @missouri_sports @FalconsGlendale @AthleticsAtSPS @Antfletch5 @JacanSeats @COCsportsreport https://t.co/auCQhuDhxB

[Coach Molly Miller @MollyMiller33]

The most gratitude to the Lord above…for allowing me to do something I love surrounded by people I love. Congrats to @TiarraB_23 for 100 wins tonight in her career and breaking the all time scoring record. It’s been a 5 year privilege and counting, T! 💜

[CoachTristan__ @TristanCoach]

Great Compliment to Cash and his teammates!

[Springfield Daily Citizen @sgfcitizen]

Glendale QB Cash Newberry threw for 322 yards and the game-winning 2-point conversion to push the Falcons past Ozark. It was Glendale's second win in a row. This week's Citizen Athlete, however, will tell you he's "a servant of the team."

Read it: https://t.co/NoGfGsrnhs

[Wendi A. Irlbeck MS, RDN, LD, CISSN @Wendi_Irlbeck]

🗣️You can't skip breakfast as an athlete and expect to compete at your best!

🗣️If you have time for social media you have time for breakfast.

Nutrients missed at breakfast are not made up later in the day Mahony et al., 2005

Breakfast eaters have better:
✅ Concentration
✅ Mood + Focus
✅ Nutritional status
✅ Problem-solving ability
✅ Physical performance
✅ Chance of meeting nutritional needs over gaps = deficiencies

Grab and go breakfast ideas: https://t.co/6M4ZXAiUIy

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Coach K once said, "You can either lower your goals to match your effort, or you can raise your effort to match your goals."

No Deposit - No Return.

Everything is earned.