If your belief in yourself rises and falls with results, someone else controls your mental state. But when you know exactly how you prepared, what you put in, and what your process looks like, nobody can take that from you. That’s confidence that survives bad days.
3 things I wish someone told me about athlete’s mindset:
1. Your brain doesn’t know the difference between a real failure and an imagined one.
2. Nerves aren’t the enemy.
3. The most dangerous voice in sports isn’t your opponents, it’s yours.
Athletes remember this:
Motivation doesn’t cause effort - effort causes motivation. Neuroscience says the brain rewards action with dopamine that causes more action.
Dear Athletes,
If your team practiced, trained, and competed like you do, would they be better or worse?
Be honest with yourself.
If the answer isn’t better, you have some work to do.
Sincerely,
Coach
If you’re not doing them already, here are things that should be in your training routine as an athlete:
1. 10 yard sprints
2. Resisted sprints
3. Vertical/broad jumps
4. Loaded vertical/broad jumps
5. Repeat contact jumps
6. Maximal Landings
7. Heavy upper/lower compound lifts
If you want to change where you are,
you have to change who you are.
If you want to change who you are,
You have to change what you do.
If you want to change what you do,
you have to change what you think.
NEW REALITIES DON’T COME WITH OLD MENTALITIES.
You control the process,
not the outcome.
You control what you put into it,
not what you get out of it.
You control whether you give your best,
not whether you get the best.
There’s a pattern behind the toughest athletes, they:
-Were underestimated early
-Kept going when progress was invisible
-Show up whether they feel like it or not
-Let simplicity & consistency compound
-Rather make a mistake then hesitate
-Move aggressively despite doubt
No one sees the days
you almost gave up.
No one saw the days
you lost everything.
No one saw the nights
you never stopped working.
No one cheered when you stay disciplined.
No one clapped when you rebuild from zero.
That’s the point.
LET THEM UNDERESTIMATE YOU.
DEFY THE ODDS.
DEFY EXPECTATIONS.
OUT WORK THE COMPETITION.
YOUR CURRENT POSITION DOESN’T DEFINE YOUR DESTINY.
YOUR WILL TO WIN DOES.
Athletes, do these 5 things and you’ll be a different athlete by July:
1. Sprint 2-3x per week
2. Lift Heavy 3-4x per week
3. Max Effort Jump 2-3x per week
4. Do 1-3 on one leg & in different planes of motion
5. Consume 1g of protein per lb of BW daily
What’s the BEST off-season training strategy?
GOOD in-season training
Nothing helps more than being prepared & even stronger/faster than you were
1. Train consistently
2. Keep intensity up, workload down
3. Train what sport doesn’t give you