If you’re a student-athlete, you understand how much your body goes throughthroughout the season. It doesn’t matter if it’s from practice, in the weight room,traveling, or playing how many games or matches a week. Regardless, the body goesthrough a l...

What is skill? The Oxford definition of skill is “the ability to do something well”. Very vague in terms of what “something” is, but it literally can mean anything. Cooking, parenting, driving, communication, etc. But, how is skill attained? How is i...

It's Monday morning after a long weekend and you are getting ready for work. You look at yourself in the mirror and think one of two things. 1. Ugh, I don't want to go to work today. 2. I am excited for the day ahead!What is the difference ...

Where there is learning, teaching precedes it. Whether it is from person to person or through some type of self teaching (reading, practice, film study, thought, writing, etc). We as coaches are students of this game, as there have been so many to co...

Well, the more days I train the better right? I’ll make gains faster compared to the person who’s only training 3 so I must do 4 or more. Not necessarily so let’s dive deeper into this.           ...

What do you do to train your brain? What disciplines do you perform to take care of your mental state? You can be strong as an ox physically but if you are weak in the mind, you are bound to fall due to fear. How can we train this? No, it is not doin...

This blog will be a little different to the past ones. I want to make this more interactive and help you lay out some goals for yourself. This will consist of writing down three goals for three different time frames. After writing down your three goa...

Foundation of Iron            We all have things that makeup who we are. From how we are raised and who we surround ourselves with, to being committed to a desired faith and looking up to so...

Getting To The Edge We all have our story of how we got into training, how it impacted our lives, and what kept us going once the newbie gains came and went. Whether a coach got you to start to help you improve in your given sport. You wanted to take...

A tribe. A social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader. The kind I speak of here is the “...

1/15/24Your Own Worst Enemy – Feeling the Effects of Imposter SyndromeImposter Syndrome: The persistent inability to believe that one’s success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved because of one’s efforts or skills.            Finally putti...

Rest Day?            A “rest day” can be a vague term as people have their own opinions of them. Some believe a rest day should entail nothing demanding, either training or personal. This al...