AthletesOfTheFuture

🏁Breeding the Athletes of tomorrow🏁 ⚡️Sports Performance Development⚡️ 📍Eastern Connecticut

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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.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

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.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

Athletes remember this:

Motivation doesn’t cause effort - effort causes motivation. Neuroscience says the brain rewards action with dopamine that causes more action.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

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

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

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

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

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.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

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.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

If you don’t SACRIFICE for what you want, what you want BECOMES the SACRIFICE.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

The work no one sees
is the work that gets you SEEN.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

You either push past your limits,
or you let them control you.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

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

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

You either push past limits,
or you let them control you.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

If you show up every DAY
The results don’t have a CHOICE.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

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.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

Your sacrifice isn’t always seen.
Your grind won’t always get applause.
But your future self will thank you.

That’s the point.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

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.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

People always find it easier to be a result of the past, rather than be the cause of the future.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

Any attempt at action is better than inaction. An attempt can go wrong, but inaction inevitably results in failure.

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

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

[AthletesOfTheFuture @aothefuture]

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