Fabian Salazar’s Speed Hack: Ditch Overtraining for Explosive Gains - Ep 53

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They feel like if they don't do everything like back to back max effort, they feel like they haven't done, haven't had a successful session.
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And first of all, it's a mindset that you kind of have to like, get them to understand.
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To me, the way I look at speed is first coordination.
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You gotta get'em coordinated enough.
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Mhm.
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Mhm.
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Mhm.
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Mhm.
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Mhm.
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Mhm.
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Fabian, welcome to the Athletic Performance Podcast.
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Appreciate you for having me on, man.
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to this conversation, but, um, I always ask people, you know, what's, what's the origin story?
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Why don't you go back in time a little bit and just kind of bring us up to speed on you?
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Sure.
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So I've been, I've been doing this actual personal training for about 15 years now.
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Um, I started at a big box, which, uh, a lot of people do.
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It was Valley Total Fitness.
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Oh man.
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Yeah, dude.
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So then, like after that, um, they closed down here.
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They went out of business.
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Yeah.
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And so, uh, I kind of have to figure it out and, uh, I'm a big believer in God and I just kind of did my part.
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And, uh, next thing you know, we, I opened up a, a studio with my brother, which, by the way, I couldn't do any of this without him.
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Um, for the, the people that I've been in my life, um, I'm just kind of here.
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But yeah, so we got into more of the, the soccer side of things just because we grew up, we call it on the other side of the tracks, um, with less resources.
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Mm-hmm.
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Uh, for, for training.
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And, and you always have that, that question in the back of your mind, you know, what could have been if you actually had, um, more intention in about the way you approached, uh, sports and, and any kind of physical practice.
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And so that's honestly what we do.
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We deal with a lot of like, uh, the kind of, the kind of kids we grew up, uh, with.
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Uh, so it's kind of nice to, to, to get into that.
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But we also, that's one part of it.
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Mm-hmm.
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As far as the brick and mortar, we deal with a lot of general population, which has also been like such a eyeopener for us.
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Mm-hmm.
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Because.
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I mean, you kind of take the similar approach.
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It doesn't have to be an athlete, but at the end of the day, you're a coach, mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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Um, one of, uh, one of my close friends told me like, dude, anytime you're in a position of coaching or, or leading, it's like you're basically, think about it, like these people are, are basically a ball, and then you kick the ball or you continue to kick the ball, and then you kick the ball again.
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And then after a while they, somehow they get up and then they start running, and then the next thing you do is you just cheer'em on.
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So I feel like with coaching, it's, it's really that what we do is we, we have to encourage man, um, and yes, the physical components, all the attributes that these people get, uh, are obviously super important.
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But it can't happen if you're not, if you're not meeting them.
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Um, emotionally, for sure.
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And obviously with kids too, that's also a big eyeopener.
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But anyway, so fast forward, we're here, uh, we've been here for about 15 years.
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Uh, wow.
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Big factor.
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Uh, so that within itself has been, dude, like, gosh, at work and I start, it's, it's just been really, really, really, um, it's been a, a, a journey, um, journey.
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Figuring out who you are.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, who you wanna be presented as.
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And then not only that, but you have to, you have to have people to teach that too.
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Whereas organization hasn't been my skill.
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I've had to really like crack down lately on eventually if you want the business to grow.
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Yeah.
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But yeah, primarily we have two sides.
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Obviously we deal with a lot of, uh, soccer players.
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But we, we also deal with a lot of general population, which honestly have, have similar needs at the end of the day.
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Yeah, for sure.
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So, um, do you have a background in soccer?
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Like did you play at a pretty high level or?
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Yeah.
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So I only play, uh, high
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school.
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Um, my brother still competes nowadays, uh, and he's 37, so he still plays in pretty competitive league.
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I can't, or I, I have, I don't make time for it because I have kids.
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Yeah.
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And I like to spend time with my family and, uh, that's, that's where I kind of spend most of my time.
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But, um, yeah, I mean, honestly just high school ball.
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Um, and yeah, that's pretty, pretty, pretty much it on, on that side.
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Yeah.
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I can tell you've been in the game a while because I don't think a lot of the younger trainers, at least the ones under 30, have any clue what b total fitness is.
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I mean, that is, that is historic.
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And the thing about it.
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Like I got thrown out there because at the time that Valleys was honestly, um, it was the top grossing gym in the nation for personal training.
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So I was very fortunate to know, like, to get thrown in that situation.
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You kind of have to survive, man.
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You really, what's wild about it is I tell the guys here, I'm like, guys, you don't understand.
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You don't get paid the prospect.
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You have to walk the floors.
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Like I remember my first paycheck was like less than a dollar, and I'm like, shit.
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You know what I mean?
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It's, yeah.
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It's, it's really eyeopening.
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Um, but yeah, so Valleys, I, I was very fortunate to, to be able to get thrown in that, in that, um, environment.
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Yeah.
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So that's exciting, man.
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So I want to start to dive into, at least on the athlete side, because um, I see a lot of what you post, man, your social media is so clean.
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Um, I love the comparisons.
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I think the contrast that you draw and the intention to detail that you have is very, very elite.
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So we'll try to keep this to soccer, but feel free to expand this, um, in any way you feel that is, is relevant.
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But, um, when it comes to, how soccer athletes are approaching game speed.
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Mm-hmm.
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What do you feel like are the biggest mistakes that you're seeing in their training?
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So this is, this kind of goes with, I feel like any competitive sport nowadays.
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Mm-hmm.
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I mean, you're dealing with these kids having like four games a weekend.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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Minimum when they, yeah, minimum, right?
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So when they come in, first of all, they're so wired up.
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They feel like if they don't do everything like back to back max effort, they feel like they haven't done, haven't had a successful session.
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Mm-hmm.
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And first of all, it's a mindset that you kind of have to like, get them to understand.
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To me, the way I look at speed is first coordination.
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You gotta get'em coordinated enough.
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Right.
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I like to feel help.
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Uh, some these kids feel comfortable with one position and I use a two point start mainly.
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Mm-hmm.
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Just because I can kind of continue to, to, to build off of that, obviously you got, uh, this game of soccer is very, um, it's very active.
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You, you have different positions, which that's a little bit on the other side of like, change the direction.
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Mm-hmm.
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At the end of the day, the attributes that I have seen with, with the younger kids, uh, get better is.
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Just getting them to, to understand that for the, for the time being, we're, we're just working on this two point stand.
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That's, that's all we're gonna do.
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And what things we're gonna work, work on is coordinating the back foot to do its job, allowing your body to be able to put into that position to accelerate.
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Mm-hmm.
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And that has to do with repetition.
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The, but, but the biggest thing with, with, with most kids is, uh, the attention span's also not there.
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So it, it's kind of, you, you kind of have to, I'm, I'm into this big, you know, I know everybody wants to play, play, play, and I hear that, but at the end of the day, you have to have some responsibility on them.
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You know, it's like, you know, we can, we, we, we can play all these games, all this and that.
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At the end of the day, I need you to learn this for, if you want to excel at your sport, this is what we need to do.
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You have, you have a lot.
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Um, obviously you also have the parents, Hey, I need my kid to be doing X, Y, Z.
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Mm-hmm.
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So you also have to cope with that.
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Like, no, we're, we're, we're honestly, we're gonna work on this for at least three months just because we have to see some change at least.
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Mm-hmm.
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Right.
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Um, so yeah.
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It's, it's, honestly, it's, it's, it's such a, such an intense environment because it's so competitive as well.
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But identifying a successful training session has to be communicated by the coach.
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And if, if, again, if your coach is kind of all over the place and we're not following, Hey, we're trying to get better at this one thing, then yeah.
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I mean, you're, you're gonna have the athlete come in here and just be all over the place.
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Yeah.
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I love that.
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One of the things that really stands out to me is you talk about these kids that are coming in wired up, and I've had this conversation a few times with several athletes of, team sport athletes in particular, and, um, soccer being one football guys especially.
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They're really, really good at going 90% over and over and over, but they're really poor at going 95 to a hundred percent and getting them to slow down enough to find that gear has been an exceptional challenge.
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Have you noticed the same or do you have any strategies?
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No, 100%.
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But that's where like honestly, it's, you kind of have to be stern, like, dude.
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Mm-hmm.
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This is what we have to do.
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I get it.
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That you wanna go again?
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But it's not the time to go again.
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Obviously after that, you build conditioning, which is another part of it, being able to accelerate over and over again.
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That's also a huge part.
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But we can't do that unless you actually understand what it feels like at the beginning, so they're kind of like jumping, they're, they're jumping, uh, steps.
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So you kind of, yeah, it's, it's, it, it doesn't make sense.
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You, you, you, you, you literally cannot build that type of capacity unless you understand, um, or coordinate, uh, the, the actual, what your arms are doing, what your feet are doing, like mm-hmm.
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It's, it's, it's a lot.
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It's, it's so complex.
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We look at acceleration as being like, oh, it's, it's like a 2D thing.
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It's like, dude, there's so much that happens.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, but as far as strategies, I kind of take it on.
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Athlete.
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Athlete to athlete, man.
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Yeah, for sure.
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For some of them, they don't get it.
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Like they don't, and you literally have to work within sessions and, and, and it's almost like you have to first get'em to slow down to understand, and then you can start building.
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Which is hard though because then you have, you know, if you, you have a off season block of 12 weeks, you literally have to down regulate'em first for them to actually start working, which is, it's, it's very tough.
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Yeah.
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I always feel like I'm riding two horses with one ass, with these athletes because, you know, on one hand, um, I want pure sprint training.
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I want them to reach peak velocity.
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I want them pushing the threshold.
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We've already discussed how they have challenges with that, but on the other hand, they have the specific demands of the sport itself and mm-hmm.
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More and more.
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There isn't an off season, so they always need to be ready to go, mm-hmm.
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My question, a follow up for you is how do you balance this?
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Like, I need to develop pure speed, but I can't necessarily sacrifice, um, you know, being physically prepared for four games a weekend.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Um, so I'll use Fernando Fernando's, one of my, uh, youth, uh, dynamo players.
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Fernando, like, like I said, plays maybe a tournament a weekend.
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Um, and so we have, we have this protocol when, at the moment on Mondays he comes in, I still wanna get acceleration work, but honestly it, the practices he has at night are so rigorous.
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First of all, I have to be conscious.
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I have to be conscious of that, not affecting.
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The rest of the training week.
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Yeah.
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Um, for acceleration work, dude, for him, he gets much more out of us, literally doing some bounds and then like sled push, not, not too taxing.
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Mm-hmm.
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He's still getting the shapes we want.
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We want him to get, he's still developing the strength in those, in, in those areas that we want him to strengthen.
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And then that's it.
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That's the session.
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The practices, they're so crazy, dude.
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Like the demand for that, that, uh, conditioning, they do it, it's probably not, I don't know.
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It's not the best way to do it, but they handle it.
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So I have to come on the back end and kind of patch things up.
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Yeah.
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Like make sure, for example, like two weeks ago he came in here, he could barely lift his hip.
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And he could barely lift his leg.
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And I was like, okay, well.
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Obviously we had a sprint session today, but we're not gonna be doing any kind of sprint related stuff.
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Let's try to get you to feel better.
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And it was, it wasn't super complex.
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We got him to lengthen his hip flexors work, work through that range of motion, get him to feel some adductors.
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Um, and then we worked on calves and then boom, he felt a whole lot better.
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But yeah, the conditioning part is a little bit complex because like you said, there is no off season.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, honestly, it's, it comes to a point where like, you're, you're, you, you're patching things up.
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And if they, if they make it, sometimes it's, it's terrible for me to say this, but if they're resilient enough to make it through such a tough schedule, then, then, then they're gonna make it.
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They're gonna, they're gonna do okay.
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But the conditioning part, I can't, it they are, they already do waste.
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They already do so much.
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Yeah.
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It's wild.
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Um, so inside of all this, one of the things that I'm kind of hearing you say is that your, your job, and you seem to be exceptional at this, is you're able to identify like what the high leverage point is for an athlete, right?
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Mm-hmm.
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So Fernando comes in, grows wrecked, can't lift his leg.
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You're like, okay, this is, ideally what we want to do.
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And I think any trainer worth their salt understands that.
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The programs we write are anticipating how an athlete is gonna respond and recover to the stress.
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But then coaches pile on conditioning and everything.
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We have to kind of throw out the window.
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But it comes back to this idea.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And it comes back to this idea of, okay, we have to narrow it down and really identify what the big levers are when it comes to your performance and your development right now.
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And so I liked how you talked about, doing some bounds, doing some sled pushes because it's not overly taxing.
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It allows us to hit the shapes and the ground contact times we want.
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But what are some of the other big levers as a coach that you like to pull for your athletes, um, so they can actually get faster throughout the course of a year?
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Strength, dude.
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Strength
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is like, I hear this a lot.
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Oh, you know, honestly, these kids needs to be stronger, period.
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In, like generally speaking, if you can't hinge and pull the barbell to towards your stomach to do a row, that's a problem.
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Because literally in acceleration you have to stay in some sort of shape like that.
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So what that's telling me, just doing regular, like barbell.
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I do, I love Barbell Rose with a lot of my kids.
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Um, I love, I think, um, stepback lunges are phenomenal.
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Mm-hmm.
00:17:34.992 --> 00:17:36.163
So strength training.
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Yes.
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Unless you're like super elite, but these kids are young man, they need to be stronger.
00:17:43.992 --> 00:17:44.323
Yeah.
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You can't sit here and tell me like, oh, well this kid's gonna be affected'cause he's too strong.
00:17:50.593 --> 00:17:56.202
It's like, uh, he could be a little bit stronger, um, so in season.
00:17:56.952 --> 00:18:02.053
I mean, we do, we either do a hyper hypertrophy based kind of block mm-hmm.
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Or we do more of a, uh, just a general strength kind of block as well.
00:18:09.702 --> 00:18:11.923
Um, because you're teaching coordination too.
00:18:11.923 --> 00:18:25.903
They're so, man, it's always, it's always wild to me to see we have such talented kids on the ball, but yet you ask them to do a bound and my 6-year-old does a better job.
00:18:27.042 --> 00:18:30.583
Like my 6-year-old boy twin Yeah.
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Does a better job than you.
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That's a problem.
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Because you're, you're, I love doing handstands.
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That's not another one of my things.
00:18:43.393 --> 00:18:43.752
Yep.
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You're given, the more coordinated you are, the more athletic you will be.
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I mean, you have more options.
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It's, it's actually, it's, it's, it's given it.
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So even that low hanging fruit, I, I, I harp on bounds because it's always so mind boggling to me how these kids are super talented on the ball.
00:19:07.567 --> 00:19:15.067
But yeah, you ask them to do a bound and they look like, uh, they look like, like Bambi, Um, it's, it's wild dude.
00:19:15.248 --> 00:19:19.417
Uh, but yeah, so big on, big on strength training.
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Strength training during season two.
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Dude, there's no reason why you should take that out.
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Obviously the, the intensity you have to manage it just like you would with any kind of speed, work with, with given their practices.
00:19:34.343 --> 00:19:36.623
You gotta continue to do that general strength work.
00:19:37.553 --> 00:19:37.972
Yeah.
00:19:38.073 --> 00:19:41.583
I don't think enough people talk about the coordination aspects of strength training, right?
00:19:41.583 --> 00:19:50.202
We're talking about inter and intramuscular coordination, synchronization and timing of how everything, creates the symphony of movement.
00:19:50.923 --> 00:19:52.633
And you mentioned the coordination piece.
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So you know, outside of the strength training, how are you, uh, developing just athletes who, who can do a lot of these drills?
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Because sometimes, like in our dynamic warmup, for example, um, we'll throw different cadences and tempos and drills at'em, right?
00:20:08.923 --> 00:20:08.932
Mm-hmm.
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We're gonna do, um, an a skip, we're gonna do some kind of switch, then we're gonna add like a double contact to it, then we're gonna go dribble and unilateral.
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And it sometimes just watching their brains try to process just these different movements and you just see it's, it, it's almost like a block.
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But once they figure it out, they're just so.
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The grace of being able to switch in and out of these different tempos and rhythms becomes much more efficient.
00:20:33.327 --> 00:20:36.357
So I'm curious what other, what other stuff you put in there.
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I mean, is everybody doing handstands?
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That'd be amazing.
00:20:38.698 --> 00:20:39.147
No, dude, that's
00:20:39.147 --> 00:20:44.337
the thing with, with that is, um, I would love that.
00:20:46.518 --> 00:20:52.307
In a perfect world, you're taking time out of their time to work on their given skill, right?
00:20:52.728 --> 00:20:52.817
Mm-hmm.
00:20:53.057 --> 00:21:07.877
So it's not fair for me to say, because doing a handstand, depending on your fear, fear is also another thing being upside down that matters.
00:21:07.883 --> 00:21:07.893
Yeah.
00:21:08.702 --> 00:21:12.903
You have to overcome a lot of things, but honestly, we do a lot of crawling patterns.
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And I know there's, there's a big, there's a big thing, big movement out there.
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Uh, animal flow or moving, like a specific animal for the sake of moving like an animal.
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We really don't do that.
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But we do, we do work on like lateral crawling, forward crawling, backwards.
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Crawling the backwards.
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Crawling is also another thing that's like, wait, how do you do that?
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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But like you said, once they coordinate it, oh, this is how you do this.
00:21:45.472 --> 00:21:51.803
So, um, honestly, it just depends, man.
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Like I, sometimes I get too married with a specific, uh, thing, I like yeah, that I start to take other stuff out that may be beneficial.
00:22:06.292 --> 00:22:19.373
Right now, I'm, I'm honestly running a lot of, um, just a lot of bounds and just bounds and literally that's the warmup bounds and we just hop straight into accelerator.
00:22:19.613 --> 00:22:26.452
We might throw some BOGOs in there, you know, some pogo, but then we just jump straight into it, at least for my sessions.
00:22:26.992 --> 00:22:36.923
And I find that, that it works well for me, but for my athletes, they need other, other, other feelings.
00:22:37.073 --> 00:22:39.863
'cause it's, it's also a feeling that they have to understand.
00:22:40.403 --> 00:22:41.123
Skips are great too.
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Yes.
00:22:42.772 --> 00:22:43.613
Skips are phenomenal.
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Skips are, I know there was a, a recent, uh, I think finger match was like with uh, yeah, like dude skips are phenomenal.
00:22:53.883 --> 00:22:54.002
Yeah.
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They don't do that enough.
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Um, but yeah, so I kind of got off track there.
00:23:00.692 --> 00:23:04.173
As far as like other movements, yeah, we do a lot of crawling patterns.
00:23:05.448 --> 00:23:09.347
I know there was Christian mcc, I saw Christian mcc, McCaffrey's trainer.
00:23:09.347 --> 00:23:17.867
I know obviously, uh, everybody does things different, but he had him do a bunch of stuff on the trampoline too with like, uh, like handstand related stuff.
00:23:17.988 --> 00:23:18.587
It might work.
00:23:18.827 --> 00:23:19.307
Who knows?
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I think that, yeah, it's, it's just you, you're, you're kind of, you're kind of torn between two places where how much time you actually have to explore and how much time do you think is, is, is actually allotted to work on the things that they need for their sport.
00:23:39.498 --> 00:23:40.218
It's a tough one.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Because it's like we've always had to have this, um, requisite level of, um, you know, context.
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Like, is this going to really transfer?
00:23:51.798 --> 00:23:56.178
And then the other side of it is like, what are they, what are they also missing?
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Because I think we can infinitely add.
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A number of things to the program that at the end of the day, it's like, what's really moving the needle?
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What is needed for long-term development?
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What's, what's the impediment here?
00:24:08.057 --> 00:24:17.627
'cause like initially like getting down and crawling, like, you might not see like the ROI today, but like eventually these athletes are, are building some efficiencies, some coordination.
00:24:18.198 --> 00:24:25.097
Um, I guess a question follow up that kind of came to mind is, you know, you guys have been in business for 15 years, you've been through COVID.
00:24:25.127 --> 00:24:26.357
Like it's phenomenal.
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Any, anybody that can do that.
00:24:27.827 --> 00:24:38.778
So, massive credit to you guys, but it's obvious you have a level of success with your athletes when they, when they're starting out with you in person.
00:24:40.067 --> 00:24:47.867
It almost seems like you have to have this mindset shift of how we're going to think about and approach training.
00:24:48.258 --> 00:24:56.837
So what does that conversation look like or what do you find yourself repeating to athletes just ad nauseam when they're new to get them in the mental space that you need?
00:24:57.468 --> 00:25:00.798
To, to do the things that are necessary for their long-term development.
00:25:01.758 --> 00:25:02.508
Slow down.
00:25:04.038 --> 00:25:08.357
Like that's the big dude, honestly, slow down.
00:25:08.657 --> 00:25:18.887
And I use, because it's not only for, for athletes like gen pop, a lot of gen pop needs to slow down, like for, for, for a lot of these exercises, but mm-hmm.
00:25:19.127 --> 00:25:21.258
With my athletes, slow down.
00:25:22.008 --> 00:25:25.518
Like, if you don't get it, I'm gonna keep harping at you.
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Slow down.
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This is not the place to, to go 150%.
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Like, I need you to slow down.
00:25:32.538 --> 00:25:33.347
And, and that's it.
00:25:33.347 --> 00:25:38.057
I mean, honestly, it comes to a point where, look, and that's why I love video so much.
00:25:38.597 --> 00:25:38.718
Yes.
00:25:38.928 --> 00:25:40.698
'cause okay, you're not, you're not hearing me.
00:25:41.147 --> 00:25:50.238
But let me show you, because obviously what you're doing at the moment, like going at this speed is not working.
00:25:50.567 --> 00:25:53.298
We're not getting, we're not getting the results we really want here.
00:25:54.018 --> 00:25:56.597
Here's the video, I need you to slow down.
00:25:56.718 --> 00:26:00.948
And then the, kids nowadays are so like tech savvy.
00:26:00.948 --> 00:26:02.478
They're like, oh yeah, look at that.
00:26:02.928 --> 00:26:14.478
So yeah, like if you don't verbally, you don't understand I'm recording you and then I'm showing you, and then I want, and I, and I'm gonna show you where I want you to be.
00:26:15.317 --> 00:26:17.327
And then even that slows them down.
00:26:17.837 --> 00:26:20.028
Having that kind of footage, your interaction.
00:26:20.387 --> 00:26:20.478
Mm-hmm.
00:26:20.718 --> 00:26:24.228
It's gonna slow him way down to me telling him, Hey dude, I told you to slow down.
00:26:24.857 --> 00:26:27.228
Like, I'm literally pointing to you here.
00:26:27.857 --> 00:26:28.968
This is where you are.
00:26:30.077 --> 00:26:31.157
This is where I need you.
00:26:31.907 --> 00:26:33.048
I need you to slow down.
00:26:33.557 --> 00:26:34.698
They're like, oh, alright coach.
00:26:34.758 --> 00:26:35.208
That makes sense.
00:26:36.407 --> 00:26:38.147
So I guess using technology is a huge one.
00:26:38.897 --> 00:26:42.298
And I was, I was always opposed to it, because I was like, you've gotta feel it.
00:26:42.958 --> 00:26:43.228
Yeah.
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But technology's huge, man.
00:26:46.212 --> 00:26:47.532
Especially with these comparisons.
00:26:47.532 --> 00:26:52.633
You tell me online, I remember, I remember the first video that I put that went like crazy.
00:26:54.522 --> 00:27:01.093
It was literally a side by side pushing off one foot and then pushing off two feet.
00:27:01.843 --> 00:27:05.863
You can't believe the type, how controversial that was.
00:27:06.403 --> 00:27:10.932
And to me, I was like, look, I like to give options man.
00:27:10.962 --> 00:27:12.522
I'm not gonna here tell you what to do.
00:27:12.853 --> 00:27:14.923
Like at the end of the day, you're your own person.
00:27:15.522 --> 00:27:24.313
I'm not gonna sit, dude, first of all'cause I don't have time to sit here and waste to try to get you to like convince you that look, this might work.
00:27:25.423 --> 00:27:34.482
But yeah, that footage, there was literally a side by side and it was wild.
00:27:34.843 --> 00:27:35.923
It was crazy.
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And then that led me to like understanding, oh these, everybody likes that.
00:27:40.633 --> 00:27:41.682
Okay, let me record you.
00:27:41.682 --> 00:27:42.553
Let me bring it out.
00:27:43.363 --> 00:27:44.472
This is what you're looking like.
00:27:44.472 --> 00:27:46.633
This is what I want you to look, there's no rebuttal there.
00:27:48.012 --> 00:27:49.123
Rebuttal out the window.
00:27:51.343 --> 00:27:51.553
Yeah.
00:27:51.553 --> 00:27:52.153
I love that.
00:27:52.153 --> 00:28:00.282
I think in general, and I'm probably guilty of this too, but so much social media, uh, tension, spans, decreasing.
00:28:00.282 --> 00:28:10.813
I think the concept of in interoception for these athletes are feeling their body in space is, is, uh, muffled to a large degree, right?
00:28:10.813 --> 00:28:16.722
We're just, they're not able to sense what's going on in their body and, and asking them to describe it.
00:28:16.722 --> 00:28:25.303
It's like trying to read the numbers on the houses when you're like driving 45 down the street, you know, you just don't have time to really pick up those cues.
00:28:25.843 --> 00:28:40.752
And the way that you talk about this reminds me of a quote that I heard earlier this year, but it's just, it's kind of been a, it's just been resonant and kind of, I'm finding it come up in so many different aspects of life, but it's this idea that awareness gives you options.
00:28:41.847 --> 00:28:47.248
And being able to slow down to tune into this sense of awareness is really powerful.
00:28:47.248 --> 00:28:49.228
Especially when we're talking about movement.
00:28:50.218 --> 00:28:58.137
And to your point, one of the things that we historically have done in our first programs for conditioning is tempo lifting.
00:28:58.798 --> 00:29:02.127
And it's not just, um, do it for a minute.
00:29:02.127 --> 00:29:07.738
It's, we have a metronome at 60 beats per minute and you go three up and three down.
00:29:08.792 --> 00:29:09.032
I love
00:29:09.032 --> 00:29:09.232
that.
00:29:09.232 --> 00:29:11.518
And I tell them, I'm like, if you go faster, it's on you.
00:29:11.518 --> 00:29:12.478
You're just doing more reps.
00:29:12.508 --> 00:29:13.678
'cause this sets a minute long.
00:29:13.827 --> 00:29:14.218
But
00:29:14.367 --> 00:29:14.698
I love that.
00:29:14.698 --> 00:29:15.117
10 reps.
00:29:15.117 --> 00:29:15.778
Exactly.
00:29:15.867 --> 00:29:18.958
It's three seconds up, three seconds down and you don't relax.
00:29:19.438 --> 00:29:24.087
And I find that they, they get really, they almost, they probably hear the cowbell.
00:29:24.117 --> 00:29:25.498
'cause that's the noise we use Yeah.
00:29:25.498 --> 00:29:26.097
In their sleep.
00:29:26.097 --> 00:29:31.468
And it's, it's constantly going to the point where I'll forget about it and it'll be going for like an hour and a half in the gym.
00:29:31.468 --> 00:29:32.307
I'm like, oh, sorry, y'all.
00:29:33.837 --> 00:29:36.028
But it's, it's extremely
00:29:36.028 --> 00:29:36.688
helpful.
00:29:37.377 --> 00:29:38.607
100% dude.
00:29:39.057 --> 00:29:46.077
Um, with the metronome, I noticed too, it's like, I like playing guitar.
00:29:46.077 --> 00:29:46.167
Mm-hmm.
00:29:46.557 --> 00:29:53.998
So I noticed that that type of you, sound matters too.
00:29:53.998 --> 00:29:54.087
Mm-hmm.
00:29:54.567 --> 00:30:01.498
Like the way your contacts, like, do you, I I use that with my, my, my athletes.
00:30:01.647 --> 00:30:02.637
Do you hear that?
00:30:03.807 --> 00:30:09.327
Ba ba, ba as opposed to ba ba I need to ba ba ba ba.
00:30:09.807 --> 00:30:16.678
But it's like you're pulling from all these to eventually get'em to slow down.
00:30:17.218 --> 00:30:17.397
Mm-hmm.
00:30:17.553 --> 00:30:23.188
It's, you're, you're, you're masking, uh, the lack of attention.
00:30:23.248 --> 00:30:24.538
You're entertaining.
00:30:25.768 --> 00:30:30.897
This is, this is what I need you to, to do for me in order for us to succeed.
00:30:32.488 --> 00:30:36.028
Which is great because it also teaches you.
00:30:36.432 --> 00:30:41.502
You know, when someone's running fast, you know, when someone's hitting the ground hard.
00:30:41.893 --> 00:30:42.163
Mm-hmm.
00:30:43.363 --> 00:30:44.772
This is what I need you to sound like.
00:30:45.042 --> 00:30:47.563
You, you hear how squishy that sounds?
00:30:48.103 --> 00:30:52.452
I don't like that it needs to be more aggressive, but yeah.
00:30:52.813 --> 00:30:54.313
I, I love the metronome idea.
00:30:54.792 --> 00:31:10.153
That's, there is another reel that I had that I literally put comparison side by side and I had the metronome under and then me doing bounce on top and it was a, oh my gosh.
00:31:10.272 --> 00:31:11.143
It's like, no, dude.
00:31:11.143 --> 00:31:13.363
Honestly, it's just exactly what you said.
00:31:14.173 --> 00:31:22.932
I'm, I'm trying to give you a different way to see it, to get you to slow down to see it, how I see it.
00:31:23.542 --> 00:31:26.512
Obviously you've got a huge online following.
00:31:26.948 --> 00:31:34.508
So I'm sure you work with athletes online, um, but you still clock in at the gym and work with athletes hands on.
00:31:35.048 --> 00:31:39.377
And I'd say, there, there are guys who seem to be either one side or the other, right?
00:31:39.377 --> 00:31:40.877
Either they're online coaches.
00:31:41.268 --> 00:31:44.417
Some of the stuff they say are like, do you actually work with people?
00:31:44.417 --> 00:31:46.758
Like, I don't think, like, I don't think you do.
00:31:47.057 --> 00:31:59.147
And then, you know, there's, there's guys who, some of the best coaches you've never heard of are inside of their facilities every day, just putting in the reps, doing the work for you.
00:31:59.778 --> 00:32:06.468
Um, and we've talked a lot of the things we've talked about have been solutions for working with athletes in person.
00:32:06.827 --> 00:32:13.488
Why do you, I mean, especially with the growth that you've had, why do you still find it's important to work with these athletes in person?
00:32:14.597 --> 00:32:17.538
Dude, uh, uh, situational awareness.
00:32:18.137 --> 00:32:20.087
I don't think online.
00:32:20.718 --> 00:32:24.377
I'm big on like, feeling the energy of the athlete.
00:32:24.932 --> 00:32:29.163
When you walk in, I can tell if you're bro, what's up with you?
00:32:29.792 --> 00:32:30.123
Mm-hmm.
00:32:30.333 --> 00:32:30.903
What happened?
00:32:31.563 --> 00:32:32.222
You know what I mean?
00:32:32.222 --> 00:32:32.282
Yeah.
00:32:32.583 --> 00:32:34.863
That's type of stuff you don't get online, dude.
00:32:35.343 --> 00:32:35.702
Yeah.
00:32:35.702 --> 00:32:40.863
You, you do the, the, the, the Friday check-ins, oh, blah, blah, you did your exercise.
00:32:40.893 --> 00:32:41.192
All right.
00:32:41.192 --> 00:32:41.553
Peace.
00:32:42.692 --> 00:32:47.492
But like, I don't get to see you walk in here the way you shake my hand.
00:32:47.492 --> 00:32:48.962
If you look at me in the eye.
00:32:49.353 --> 00:32:49.472
Mm-hmm.
00:32:50.042 --> 00:32:59.343
Like what's really, what's really bothering me because that's gonna affect it, dude, whether we like it or not, I'm not big on like, I got this two side, right.
00:32:59.343 --> 00:33:00.423
Like, yeah.
00:33:00.482 --> 00:33:11.073
I mean, at the end of the day, sometimes you have to suck it up, but if I can't literally get you to suck it up that we, we need to, we need to figure this out before we jump into a training session.
00:33:12.788 --> 00:33:20.222
I, I feel like for the, the few that are still out there,'cause there's so much online stuff.
00:33:20.222 --> 00:33:21.063
Mm-hmm.
00:33:21.393 --> 00:33:23.012
I think that those really good.
00:33:24.167 --> 00:33:31.637
Face-to-face coaches will never, they, they just have that situational awareness.
00:33:31.637 --> 00:33:31.877
Man.
00:33:31.877 --> 00:33:37.367
I, I don't, I don't know if, uh, I'm, I'm not really that much into the online.
00:33:37.998 --> 00:33:38.357
Yeah.
00:33:38.478 --> 00:33:44.087
I don't know if you can, you can replicate that, or that, or that field.
00:33:44.298 --> 00:33:46.458
Like,'cause I, at the end of the day, I want the athlete to win.
00:33:46.637 --> 00:33:51.468
If we get something, bro, in this spot, let's go.
00:33:51.528 --> 00:33:53.567
Like, you get pumped up, mm-hmm.
00:33:53.653 --> 00:33:54.553
That type of stuff.
00:33:54.553 --> 00:33:55.843
You don't get online, dude.
00:33:56.063 --> 00:33:57.053
You just don't get it.
00:33:58.252 --> 00:34:01.492
It's more about, again, I'm checking in.
00:34:01.883 --> 00:34:03.383
You did your exercises.
00:34:03.772 --> 00:34:05.393
Okay, nice.
00:34:07.042 --> 00:34:07.823
But what, what?
00:34:08.063 --> 00:34:09.202
There's, there's something else.
00:34:09.202 --> 00:34:11.322
Like, there's something else happening, yeah.
00:34:11.322 --> 00:34:13.512
I've always, but it isn't, but it's tough though.
00:34:13.512 --> 00:34:14.532
I mean, I didn't mean to cut you off.
00:34:14.532 --> 00:34:17.152
It's tough because as much as I have though.
00:34:18.273 --> 00:34:38.577
The, the big following, I'm still very disconnected to my, to my social media because at the end of the day, I work with people one-on-one, and I, it doesn't matter what, like, that's still gonna be, that's, that's still gonna be the thing for me.
00:34:39.148 --> 00:34:43.677
I, I like that interaction because when you win, everybody wins.
00:34:43.978 --> 00:34:44.128
Yeah.
00:34:44.128 --> 00:34:45.478
And I, and I like to see that.
00:34:45.717 --> 00:34:46.858
I like to see when it happens.
00:34:49.018 --> 00:34:49.257
Yeah.
00:34:49.257 --> 00:34:56.068
The online client can be challenging because I think there's a lot of there energy at the beginning.
00:34:56.788 --> 00:34:56.998
Yeah.
00:34:57.027 --> 00:35:02.217
And pe people are excited about the prospects and I'm sure the possibility of working with you.
00:35:02.222 --> 00:35:02.452
Yeah.
00:35:02.458 --> 00:35:06.568
And then in the end, it's like you still gotta put in the work.
00:35:06.572 --> 00:35:06.983
Mm-hmm.
00:35:07.068 --> 00:35:10.257
You still gotta do these things, but I'm not here to guide you.
00:35:10.963 --> 00:35:16.543
I, I find so many people are quick to hide under the desk, is what I like to say.
00:35:16.543 --> 00:35:20.652
You know, when I come calling and emailing, you know, you're pretending you're not at home.
00:35:21.193 --> 00:35:22.333
Um, and ignoring me.
00:35:22.603 --> 00:35:22.813
Yeah.
00:35:22.813 --> 00:35:23.983
And I don't really like that.
00:35:23.983 --> 00:35:43.172
So, but if you had athletes kind of show up after, in the online space, after seeing your content, seeing what you do and approach this different than anyone else you've worked with online, are they prepared and ready to kind of receive what you have to offer them?
00:35:44.373 --> 00:35:44.943
Let's go.
00:35:45.842 --> 00:35:46.233
Yeah.
00:35:46.322 --> 00:35:47.373
Like, how about Yeah.
00:35:47.373 --> 00:35:48.722
Yeah, dude, 100%.
00:35:49.112 --> 00:35:52.862
But see, that's the stuff you have to, because you gotta get'em to buy in.
00:35:52.862 --> 00:36:05.132
Obviously they signed up for your, your program, but at the end of the day, there's still some, some still are gonna think that they know more than what you're pro providing.
00:36:06.032 --> 00:36:14.853
So it's, dude, it's, what's cool about it to me is that once you have someone in here, it's that that resale continues to happen.
00:36:15.273 --> 00:36:23.492
I'm getting your trust after every single session, and that's kind of hard to do online.
00:36:23.793 --> 00:36:23.882
Mm-hmm.
00:36:24.152 --> 00:36:26.523
That you don't, you don't, you don't get that.
00:36:27.572 --> 00:36:33.782
It's, we take it for granted, oh, this person's subscribed, and then, whatever.
00:36:33.972 --> 00:36:35.293
Well, why did they fall off?
00:36:35.983 --> 00:36:36.253
Yeah.
00:36:36.253 --> 00:36:39.492
Well there's never that, you know, that connection.
00:36:40.063 --> 00:36:41.443
But I don't know if I answered your question.
00:36:41.443 --> 00:36:43.992
I kind of kind of went off the tangent on the tangent there.
00:36:44.293 --> 00:36:45.222
No, that's okay, man.
00:36:45.222 --> 00:36:48.253
I'm just kind of peppering you with a lot of stuff that's coming to my head.
00:36:48.583 --> 00:36:53.262
But you did highlight a problem that I'm seeing more so nowadays.
00:36:53.262 --> 00:36:55.693
So I, I'm, you're in Houston, right?
00:36:55.693 --> 00:36:56.503
So I'm sure.
00:36:56.592 --> 00:36:56.682
Mm-hmm.
00:36:56.922 --> 00:37:00.793
There's a million gyms that are just a stones throw from you.
00:37:00.793 --> 00:37:00.972
Mm-hmm.
00:37:01.213 --> 00:37:03.432
We've got more and more facilities.
00:37:04.003 --> 00:37:04.782
Popping up.
00:37:05.322 --> 00:37:18.012
And I don't know if it's the kids, I don't know if it's, uh, the parents, I don't know if it's just the fact that they're working with different clubs and they're going to all these different places compared to where their high school teams are going.
00:37:18.492 --> 00:37:22.003
But we're seeing more and more of what I call the tourist.
00:37:22.543 --> 00:37:25.552
So it's like they're always going to a new place.
00:37:26.577 --> 00:37:26.998
Mm-hmm.
00:37:27.077 --> 00:37:29.873
And I feel like they're perpetually starting a program.
00:37:30.262 --> 00:37:33.202
They're never sticking with anything long enough to make progress.
00:37:33.532 --> 00:37:37.643
And I feel like this is a huge problem in the online space.
00:37:37.672 --> 00:37:45.052
When you talk about people falling off, they're just never really getting roots and just digging in and doing the damn work.
00:37:45.983 --> 00:37:46.193
Yep.
00:37:46.972 --> 00:37:47.273
Brother.
00:37:47.273 --> 00:37:57.023
It takes, like, I'll use myself as an example because I like to tell my athletes, I'm like, dude, if a 30-year-old did it, like there's no reason why your bounce shouldn't get any better.
00:37:57.382 --> 00:38:01.882
And it took my, it took me two years for my balance to look somewhat decent.
00:38:03.023 --> 00:38:23.422
It literally takes that long where it's not, at the, at the smallest amount of time, it takes six months for you to see some gradual changes, yeah, it's, it's a, it's a big problem because the thing about it here, at least in Houston, is, oh, this person's seeing this person.
00:38:23.842 --> 00:38:25.313
I need to go get my son to do that.
00:38:25.943 --> 00:38:26.737
And then mm-hmm.
00:38:26.818 --> 00:38:28.552
That person starts seeing someone else.
00:38:28.552 --> 00:38:31.913
It's like, oh no, but now, but now this person's seeing this person.
00:38:32.722 --> 00:38:34.463
And it's like, that's not how it works.
00:38:34.492 --> 00:38:40.222
Like you, you gotta give, you gotta give stuff some, some, some time for, for actually work.
00:38:40.492 --> 00:38:43.253
So there's a lot of competition that's driving that.
00:38:43.463 --> 00:38:50.422
There's a lot of FOMO that's driving that, especially on the parent side where, yep, my kid's not doing enough.
00:38:50.572 --> 00:38:51.952
And at times.
00:38:53.333 --> 00:39:01.552
At times you literally get'em to do just a little bit less and whoa, look at that.
00:39:01.672 --> 00:39:04.163
Your kid's actually doing a whole lot better.
00:39:06.172 --> 00:39:10.672
But yeah, so it's, it's such a, it's such a money.
00:39:11.003 --> 00:39:13.793
It's, it's such a, it's a big industry.
00:39:13.972 --> 00:39:19.132
There's just, and accessibility is bigger too, like mm-hmm.
00:39:19.768 --> 00:39:51.773
Uh, you can, you can literally afford, if you're, let's just say if you're playing competitive sports and you're playing club teams, the chances are you're doing your, your parents are doing pretty good and they're willing to throw money at whatever else they see pop up, but they don't understand that, which is, which is kind of interesting to me because a lot of these people are very successful, obviously, uh, financially, and you would think like, oh, you just didn't get like that in two months.
00:39:52.612 --> 00:39:56.543
Like, you literally probably did something for years.
00:39:56.547 --> 00:39:56.958
Mm-hmm.
00:39:57.538 --> 00:40:01.733
And you eventually got better.
00:40:03.563 --> 00:40:04.193
Yeah, we had an
00:40:04.193 --> 00:40:08.992
athlete this year, um, and she trained with us for a very short time.
00:40:11.092 --> 00:40:11.518
Loved volley.
00:40:11.782 --> 00:40:23.902
She was a volleyball player and I think her dad had this idea of they were gonna train for like eight weeks and she was gonna be this different athlete.
00:40:24.952 --> 00:40:28.882
And you know, at the end of eight weeks, like, yes, she made progress.
00:40:29.003 --> 00:40:32.693
She was jumping higher, she got faster, she got stronger.
00:40:33.532 --> 00:40:36.413
Was it an insane amount of progress?
00:40:36.443 --> 00:40:40.853
Not really, because I mean, she was a very underpowered athlete.
00:40:41.032 --> 00:40:42.592
She was not very fast.
00:40:43.222 --> 00:40:46.492
Her feet, um, were a whole separate issue.
00:40:46.492 --> 00:40:50.842
She always had these very, you know, basketball shoes on and anytime she was out of them, it was.
00:40:51.983 --> 00:40:55.713
Bordering on a liability, watching her move around barefoot.
00:40:56.342 --> 00:41:06.492
And I think they ended up stop stopping training because, the thought was, well, she just needs to do more volleyball to, to be, to move up the teams.
00:41:06.492 --> 00:41:14.902
And I don't know, I just, I, there was kind of this point in time where I'm like, you understand like the girls at the, the twos and the ones teams, they're jumping higher.
00:41:14.902 --> 00:41:15.023
Mm-hmm.
00:41:15.413 --> 00:41:16.552
They're hitting harder.
00:41:16.583 --> 00:41:18.293
They're moving faster.
00:41:18.293 --> 00:41:28.043
Like you might have the skillset to, do that pass, but do you have the ability to get to the space where you can actually execute said skills?
00:41:28.043 --> 00:41:28.132
Right.
00:41:28.733 --> 00:41:40.373
And I, I just, I mean, I see this a lot where people, to your point, maybe aren't the parents are ready for it, but maybe the kids aren't willing, they learn really quickly.
00:41:40.373 --> 00:41:44.813
Like, I don't know if I'm real, really willing to do what it takes to get to this level.
00:41:44.813 --> 00:41:44.873
Yeah.
00:41:44.873 --> 00:41:46.733
And that's totally, totally fine with me.
00:41:47.978 --> 00:41:51.878
But that's where you have to kind of start making those, those, those decisions.
00:41:51.878 --> 00:41:55.148
It's like, dude, it's like owning a business, you know, as well.
00:41:55.387 --> 00:41:57.038
There's gonna be sacrifices.
00:41:57.307 --> 00:41:57.398
Mm-hmm.
00:41:57.637 --> 00:41:57.998
Right.
00:41:58.358 --> 00:42:02.257
Are you really ready to sacrifice X, y, Z?
00:42:02.557 --> 00:42:02.617
Yeah.
00:42:02.617 --> 00:42:06.878
For the other stuff, it's like you, you're not ready for it.
00:42:07.387 --> 00:42:11.677
Uh, you kind of start to kind of, okay, you go this way, you go this way.
00:42:12.128 --> 00:42:17.077
The kids that really do wanna sacrifice it, that's honestly where you start pouring into them.
00:42:17.708 --> 00:42:17.978
Yeah.
00:42:18.307 --> 00:42:20.228
Um, but yeah, you're spot on, dude.
00:42:20.228 --> 00:42:25.688
It's, and then you're also dealing with that, the, it, it's like kids, what is it?
00:42:25.688 --> 00:42:38.677
Like the first, the first month, they're, they're probably gonna make, like, like that one, that one athlete you're talking about was so underdeveloped that the changes are gonna be so dramatic at the beginning.
00:42:39.248 --> 00:42:39.427
Mm-hmm.
00:42:40.148 --> 00:42:42.128
But it doesn't mean it's gonna stay like that.
00:42:42.128 --> 00:42:43.268
That's the problem, though.
00:42:43.807 --> 00:42:45.547
It's like you gotta keep.
00:42:46.523 --> 00:42:47.632
You gotta keep going.
00:42:47.632 --> 00:42:48.833
That's not where it ends.
00:42:49.103 --> 00:42:49.163
Yeah.
00:42:49.163 --> 00:43:03.893
I mean, obviously we got you to like to, to, to like a somewhat, um, better point, but just imagine what you can always, the guys always laugh at in here.
00:43:03.952 --> 00:43:10.103
'cause anytime like, uh, I wanna learn a skill, I'm like, just gimme two years, gimme two years.
00:43:10.132 --> 00:43:11.302
Come back in two years.
00:43:11.483 --> 00:43:11.753
Yeah.
00:43:11.753 --> 00:43:12.472
See where we are.
00:43:12.983 --> 00:43:14.092
It was like two years.
00:43:14.092 --> 00:43:15.353
It was like, yeah, two years.
00:43:15.353 --> 00:43:18.893
It just gimme two years, not six months.
00:43:19.342 --> 00:43:20.782
I'm gonna dive in for two years.
00:43:21.862 --> 00:43:24.202
So it's, but it's, there's not enough.
00:43:24.202 --> 00:43:26.693
Um, yeah.
00:43:26.693 --> 00:43:28.282
You people don't wanna suck.
00:43:28.583 --> 00:43:30.322
People don't wanna suck at, at something.
00:43:31.342 --> 00:43:33.623
People don't wanna suck for a long time.
00:43:35.182 --> 00:43:38.182
I got, I got two follow ups and then we'll move on because I got some more questions for you.
00:43:38.182 --> 00:43:43.793
But, um, I don't know if you were ever, you know, in a power lifting world, but, uh, Dave Tate.
00:43:44.318 --> 00:43:47.737
Was a huge powerlifter, uh, runs a company, elite fitness.
00:43:47.737 --> 00:43:53.347
But, uh, he just had a way with words, but he describes, you know, the levels that you can ascend.
00:43:53.347 --> 00:43:55.088
It's basically shit suck.
00:43:55.208 --> 00:43:55.568
Good.
00:43:55.717 --> 00:43:56.077
Great.
00:43:56.918 --> 00:44:08.858
And the whole idea, the whole idea was, you know, the things that take you, the skills and whatever you need to go from shit to suck are not the same things that are gonna take you from suck to good or good to great.
00:44:09.068 --> 00:44:19.478
So just kind of ascending this ladder was, you know, for a lot of these athletes, it's, you're just missing a lot of foundational stuff to be able to, a lot to do anything with it.
00:44:20.077 --> 00:44:38.378
And then the other thing that I'll add is, when you talk about asking parents and athletes to do less, you know, we're constantly battling against a culture, at least in our area, where the parents want the place that is going to, you know, out grind the other place.
00:44:38.378 --> 00:44:40.987
Who is working these kids the hardest?
00:44:41.288 --> 00:44:42.427
Who's making them puke?
00:44:43.027 --> 00:44:48.668
And I don't know, we just kind of look at it and are like, yeah, well we don't do that.
00:44:48.998 --> 00:44:49.117
You
00:44:49.117 --> 00:44:49.208
know?
00:44:49.208 --> 00:44:49.538
Yeah, yeah.
00:44:50.288 --> 00:44:53.288
No, you asked about like COVID and mm-hmm.
00:44:53.289 --> 00:44:57.818
How we were able to like, make it through.
00:44:58.088 --> 00:45:05.697
Part of it is'cause we're in a bubble and the accessibility here is, is there's just options, yeah.
00:45:05.788 --> 00:45:07.947
Um, but yeah, you're right.
00:45:08.068 --> 00:45:13.958
Another thing to add to that is for, we talk, go back to the acceleration part.
00:45:15.288 --> 00:45:18.467
Torso to torso length matters.
00:45:19.217 --> 00:45:31.398
These kids don't understand, like, look for, for you, uh, it might be easier to come off the line just because this is longer in relation to, to, to the bottom half of you.
00:45:31.402 --> 00:45:31.652
Mm-hmm.
00:45:31.847 --> 00:45:35.538
For me, I have a shorter torso, longer legs.
00:45:35.987 --> 00:45:37.818
I need to find a different strategy.
00:45:38.927 --> 00:45:44.148
That's why it literally has to be that same thing over and over again.
00:45:44.777 --> 00:45:46.907
Because you're different.
00:45:47.237 --> 00:45:48.047
You're different.
00:45:48.077 --> 00:45:48.797
He's different.
00:45:49.668 --> 00:45:55.487
It doesn't make, it doesn't mean you can't do it, it's just gonna mean that yours is gonna look different than his.
00:45:55.878 --> 00:45:56.057
Yeah.
00:45:56.117 --> 00:45:56.358
Right.
00:45:56.358 --> 00:46:09.407
I can't expect my, my acceleration to look so, to, to look somewhat, look similar to, to someone that has like relatively, uh, same size of the torso and same size, um, uh, legs.
00:46:10.277 --> 00:46:11.447
That's not how my body's shaped.
00:46:11.927 --> 00:46:13.068
I have to understand that.
00:46:13.458 --> 00:46:22.938
I also have to understand that, look dude, if, if honestly you can't push off the back foot because you like, you like strength and hip extension, that's something to work on too.
00:46:23.297 --> 00:46:27.228
Are you coordinating that enough, enough push on the back foot to get you to the front foot?
00:46:27.228 --> 00:46:27.318
Mm-hmm.
00:46:27.588 --> 00:46:35.237
That's also another strength component, but you, it takes more than six, six months.
00:46:36.197 --> 00:46:45.677
It takes more than you have to follow literally for a year and then even after that two years.
00:46:46.398 --> 00:46:47.807
But then you get exceptions, right?
00:46:47.807 --> 00:46:50.568
Because you get, you get these parents that actually understand them.
00:46:50.572 --> 00:46:51.918
They're like, okay, let's go.
00:46:53.358 --> 00:46:54.648
Yeah, the majority is kind of hard.
00:46:55.277 --> 00:46:56.657
Yeah, few and far between, right?
00:46:56.657 --> 00:46:59.237
But I always try to liken it to sport, right?
00:46:59.657 --> 00:47:03.958
Like, Hey, do you stop working on, you're shut in basketball?
00:47:03.987 --> 00:47:07.407
Like, no, never, like Tiger Woods still works on a swing.
00:47:07.407 --> 00:47:15.177
Like these are skills that you, that will constantly refine and as you develop as an athlete, the way that you execute them.
00:47:15.672 --> 00:47:17.922
It's gonna be slightly different and there might be changes.
00:47:17.922 --> 00:47:22.393
And those changes take a long time to, to really take root, at least that's kind of how I think of it.
00:47:22.393 --> 00:47:27.282
And I think a lot of athletes resonate with that, even though they still just want, like, results yesterday.
00:47:27.913 --> 00:47:28.273
So
00:47:28.302 --> 00:47:28.543
Yeah.
00:47:28.543 --> 00:47:30.282
I wish I would've known that earlier though.
00:47:30.432 --> 00:47:39.463
'cause I was also one of those kids is like, I honestly, the way you're kind of raised, it makes you, it's not that you can't do it, it's that you haven't given it enough time.
00:47:40.333 --> 00:47:40.512
Right.
00:47:40.512 --> 00:47:46.092
Like you actually haven't followed through enough to be able to say, oh wow, this didn't work.
00:47:46.092 --> 00:47:47.503
Maybe I could have done something different.
00:47:47.992 --> 00:47:51.413
But it's, dude, it's, it's a tough one.
00:47:51.413 --> 00:48:03.682
I was, uh, I got back on the concrete the other day and so basically with my training, I've been doing a lot of grass stuff because obviously given soccer and I've just dabbled on like power cleans.
00:48:04.103 --> 00:48:04.193
Mm-hmm.
00:48:04.733 --> 00:48:09.413
And I've never, like before in the past I tried it but didn't give it enough attention.
00:48:09.922 --> 00:48:13.402
And dude, yesterday on my sprints.
00:48:14.902 --> 00:48:18.952
I felt completely different than I did a year ago when I was on concrete.
00:48:19.612 --> 00:48:33.893
And yes, there was a, there was a, an accumulation of all this training, but I can tell you right off the bat, in the past two months of doing just that, there's a substantial change that's happening now.
00:48:34.043 --> 00:48:43.793
I see it in myself, right, because, uh, obviously I can't, the way my body is, I, I started to understand it a little bit better is as far as pressure goes.
00:48:44.152 --> 00:48:46.163
I have a tough time with external pressure.
00:48:46.733 --> 00:49:08.873
Um, so even that, those bracing qualities, I see it a lot in young kids, but I realized part of the, the whole g raising up situation is, yeah, dude, you, you, you literally were not used to, again, all this coming to you this way and you didn't have enough strength, you had no glutes.
00:49:09.788 --> 00:49:13.867
You couldn't push, and then your body was literally folding over this way.
00:49:14.947 --> 00:49:19.123
But how am I gonna tell someone like, okay, you have to work on that for about a year and a half.
00:49:20.592 --> 00:49:20.882
Yeah.
00:49:21.277 --> 00:49:23.197
And I'm on the worst.
00:49:23.858 --> 00:49:31.027
That's why I say if I can do it rather, and you're, you can definitely do it because you're in a better spot than I was,
00:49:32.503 --> 00:49:32.793
Yeah.
00:49:32.932 --> 00:49:44.677
But anyway, that's, I wish we had us when, when I was on the come up because I was, uh, I talked about it on a few podcasts, but it's like I had, uh, Arnold's Encyclopedia of bodybuilding.
00:49:44.677 --> 00:49:46.568
So like, that was, that was it.
00:49:46.568 --> 00:49:48.007
I probably should have been outdoor sprinting.
00:49:48.697 --> 00:49:51.668
Um, but I kind of wanna shift the conversation, man, because Sure.
00:49:53.108 --> 00:49:53.648
Um.
00:49:54.503 --> 00:49:57.322
You know, I wanna pile on, you're, you're running this dual operation.
00:49:57.322 --> 00:49:58.762
You got the online stuff.
00:49:59.003 --> 00:50:04.583
You've got, uh, the in-person and I, I call this the trifecta of insanity, right?
00:50:04.583 --> 00:50:11.813
You're married, you're a businessman, or meaning you're entrepreneurial in some way, or you control your income and you got kids.
00:50:12.083 --> 00:50:13.253
Like those three things.
00:50:14.137 --> 00:50:14.597
What's that?
00:50:14.597 --> 00:50:14.753
We got a
00:50:14.753 --> 00:50:15.083
puppy.
00:50:15.893 --> 00:50:16.643
And you got a puppy.
00:50:16.793 --> 00:50:17.543
We got a puppy too.
00:50:17.543 --> 00:50:18.083
What'd you get?
00:50:19.193 --> 00:50:22.523
Uh, a black lab sold.
00:50:23.963 --> 00:50:25.913
I've never had a dog in my life, by the way.
00:50:26.063 --> 00:50:27.112
This is my first dog.
00:50:28.012 --> 00:50:28.282
Okay.
00:50:28.282 --> 00:50:32.032
But you know, with me, I gotta do it right?
00:50:32.362 --> 00:50:33.773
So I'm like going all in.
00:50:34.163 --> 00:50:34.402
Yep.
00:50:34.402 --> 00:50:38.632
So that's taking time out of these other areas, right?
00:50:38.693 --> 00:50:39.052
Yeah.
00:50:39.233 --> 00:50:39.623
I don't know.
00:50:39.623 --> 00:50:41.963
Some people just thrive in that kind of chaos.
00:50:42.023 --> 00:50:45.862
Like I, I, we laugh about, about the way we were raised.
00:50:45.862 --> 00:50:48.742
But bro, we, it was me.
00:50:49.402 --> 00:50:50.722
It was me and my brother.
00:50:51.382 --> 00:50:55.253
My sister, my other sister, we grew up in Columbia.
00:50:55.943 --> 00:51:08.032
Um, my, um, my uncle, my grandfather, my grandmother, and then my parents, nine people to a two, two bedroom apartment to a one bedroom.
00:51:08.842 --> 00:51:09.503
Oh my God.
00:51:09.603 --> 00:51:10.382
Dude, it was nuts.
00:51:10.833 --> 00:51:14.672
But at the end of the day, you just, dude, you, you just make it work.
00:51:15.333 --> 00:51:16.802
You just have to make it work.
00:51:17.163 --> 00:51:19.322
There's, there's no excuses.
00:51:19.713 --> 00:51:19.862
Mm-hmm.
00:51:20.373 --> 00:51:24.152
You always look back and like, no, you are the one that chose to do this.
00:51:24.452 --> 00:51:24.753
No.
00:51:25.112 --> 00:51:26.762
Now you have to follow through.
00:51:27.543 --> 00:51:30.123
You can't just throw the towel in.
00:51:30.152 --> 00:51:35.043
That, that trifecta, I look at it as like, alright, we're, we're creatures of stress.
00:51:35.043 --> 00:51:35.132
Mm-hmm.
00:51:35.373 --> 00:51:39.393
It's kinda like one of those things like, how much stress can I, can I pile on?
00:51:40.052 --> 00:51:47.742
Uh, obviously you don't go too overboard, but, Uh, but yeah, dude, it's, I love it, man.
00:51:48.927 --> 00:51:55.378
I feel like, uh, the problem solving, I like the problem solving part of it.
00:51:55.708 --> 00:51:55.918
Mm-hmm.
00:51:56.277 --> 00:52:02.757
Uh, because literally every minute of the day you're on problem solving mode.
00:52:03.358 --> 00:52:09.268
And you, so you have, you have a dog, you have a business, you're a coach.
00:52:10.288 --> 00:52:11.217
You have, do you have kids?
00:52:12.297 --> 00:52:12.597
Oh yeah.
00:52:12.597 --> 00:52:13.467
We got a lot of kids.
00:52:14.757 --> 00:52:15.538
A couple are older
00:52:15.538 --> 00:52:17.967
though now, but we have two, our twins are 10 years old.
00:52:18.657 --> 00:52:19.407
Oh, you have twins?
00:52:19.407 --> 00:52:20.248
I have twins too.
00:52:20.577 --> 00:52:21.088
Yeah.
00:52:21.717 --> 00:52:22.858
My twins are six.
00:52:24.478 --> 00:52:24.697
Good age.
00:52:26.922 --> 00:52:32.143
Bro, it's, yeah, I mean, you just, you just gotta make it work, man.
00:52:32.833 --> 00:52:34.393
I need to be taking tips from you.
00:52:34.782 --> 00:52:35.413
Maybe.
00:52:35.413 --> 00:52:36.103
I don't know.
00:52:36.132 --> 00:52:36.612
I don't know.
00:52:36.612 --> 00:52:47.202
I mean, you know, I guess the, the question I have for you, man, you know, just for anybody is like, how do you, like, what are some daily or weekly habits you have that just keep you from burning out?
00:52:48.103 --> 00:52:51.432
Because I, I like you, I thrive in chaos to some degree.
00:52:52.333 --> 00:52:52.873
Yeah.
00:52:53.112 --> 00:52:55.963
Um, that's a good question.
00:52:56.713 --> 00:53:00.793
I have to, man, that's a good question.
00:53:01.842 --> 00:53:02.202
Burn out.
00:53:03.467 --> 00:53:16.722
I remember, I remember a while back when my brother and I, this was before kids, um, we were starting the business, obviously, and no, it was, it was already going, but it was just me and him.
00:53:17.518 --> 00:53:35.338
Dude, I was working literally Monday through Saturday servicing sessions from like six to six to seven that I was, it was a tough, it was a tough time because I was miserable.
00:53:35.472 --> 00:53:35.893
Mm-hmm.
00:53:37.032 --> 00:53:43.918
You know, what was good about it is it taught me, when I get to that, that's when I need to back off.
00:53:45.148 --> 00:53:45.237
Mm-hmm.
00:53:45.478 --> 00:53:49.168
Uh, my daily things, my, my wife, my wife laughs at me.
00:53:49.197 --> 00:53:54.358
'cause sometimes I go to bed at 11, wake up at four, sometimes 10 30.
00:53:55.438 --> 00:53:58.827
And so we follow this, this path of like, oh, everything has to be optimal.
00:53:58.978 --> 00:54:02.097
But hey, look, at the end of the day, life happens.
00:54:02.907 --> 00:54:07.108
Um, I do find, yeah.
00:54:07.108 --> 00:54:07.557
I don't know.
00:54:07.557 --> 00:54:08.757
Dude, that's a great question.
00:54:09.237 --> 00:54:13.617
The, the things that I do in the morning is obviously I get up and I, I do my devotional.
00:54:15.373 --> 00:54:19.452
Now with this puppy, there's no devotional, but I understand that at all.
00:54:20.657 --> 00:54:32.597
I have to cater my time to this creature that I'm trying to, to, to nurture and, uh, kind of molder to how, how I want or to coexist with the rest of the family.
00:54:33.257 --> 00:54:33.617
Yep.
00:54:37.398 --> 00:54:38.657
Puppies take so much time, man.
00:54:38.657 --> 00:54:40.668
Like they're ready to go in the morning.
00:54:40.668 --> 00:54:43.938
It, this, this dog has ruined my morning routine.
00:54:44.117 --> 00:54:49.307
Like, and if I don't, if I don't walk her, she's, she's gonna start chewing shoes.
00:54:49.307 --> 00:54:52.338
That's how I know she's, she needs energy.
00:54:52.487 --> 00:54:54.918
Um, we have an old black lab.
00:54:54.918 --> 00:54:55.608
She's 14.
00:54:55.608 --> 00:54:56.958
She was my first dog ever.
00:54:56.958 --> 00:55:01.668
I didn't have dogs growing up, so I, I, I love this dog so much.
00:55:01.668 --> 00:55:06.257
But we got a new, you know, the, the younger one is kind of this old German Shepherd mix.
00:55:06.257 --> 00:55:08.057
She's five months now.
00:55:08.568 --> 00:55:09.228
Ton of energy.
00:55:09.228 --> 00:55:10.157
I love the dog.
00:55:10.157 --> 00:55:10.217
Yeah.
00:55:10.248 --> 00:55:12.137
But, um, to your point, yeah.
00:55:12.137 --> 00:55:17.327
I mean it's, it's creating a, a level of chaos and interference in the schedule.
00:55:17.717 --> 00:55:19.128
Um, but at the same time, I welcome it.
00:55:19.128 --> 00:55:19.398
Right?
00:55:19.398 --> 00:55:20.447
Like, I brought this on.
00:55:20.807 --> 00:55:21.557
Um, yeah.
00:55:21.563 --> 00:55:22.967
So I, I totally get that.
00:55:24.527 --> 00:55:26.057
My wife is like, what did she say?
00:55:26.702 --> 00:55:34.608
You turn into a robot and it's like, yeah,'cause like I have to task, task, task, test, task.
00:55:35.733 --> 00:55:38.072
But so that's kind of hard to turn off sometimes.
00:55:38.123 --> 00:55:40.387
It's like what she said, you just have to make it happen.
00:55:41.782 --> 00:55:52.132
Yeah, I, I will say in, you know, in the spirit of Huberman, I'm getting more morning sunlight than ever before because instead of, you know, getting up and working, I'm now going outside for walks.
00:55:52.132 --> 00:55:54.112
So I guess there, there are some positives to it.
00:55:55.163 --> 00:55:55.523
Yeah, there you go.
00:55:57.682 --> 00:56:07.882
Um, anyway, I wanna keep the conversation on training because I really like hearing you talk about cutting your teeth, putting in the work, getting the reps, working these 13 hour days.
00:56:08.182 --> 00:56:13.762
Um, and even if you're not, you know, if you're a coach, younger coach listening to this, you might be working the, the horrible split shift, right?
00:56:13.762 --> 00:56:22.282
So you're there, um, before everybody goes to work through the morning, maybe at lunch, and then you're again there in the evening once everyone gets off work.
00:56:22.282 --> 00:56:24.983
So we're, we're essentially on every time people come off.
00:56:25.552 --> 00:56:37.913
And more and more these days, I think there's a lot of people who have expertise and knowledge, but not experience and not really a developed skillset coaching.
00:56:37.913 --> 00:56:38.362
So.
00:56:39.202 --> 00:56:51.353
Having gone through that, you know, what would you, what would you tell some of these younger coaches, what are, what do you feel like are some of the benefits of, of just doing that for a short period of time in your life?
00:56:52.373 --> 00:56:52.702
Yeah.
00:56:53.242 --> 00:56:56.302
Um, honestly, it starts with yourself.
00:56:57.233 --> 00:57:04.853
I feel like we don't follow this enough, like you're saying, well, first you have to identify how you learn, right?
00:57:05.393 --> 00:57:05.483
Mm-hmm.
00:57:06.443 --> 00:57:10.702
And then you say, okay, well honestly, I, I need to get better at this.
00:57:11.197 --> 00:57:12.682
How do I, how would I approach it?
00:57:12.833 --> 00:57:24.983
'cause a lot of things I see with most of the trainers that come in here and want to train this, okay, you're telling me you're okay, so you're taking these people through this training block, but you haven't done it yourself.
00:57:26.063 --> 00:57:35.902
So that, that, that literally gives me no, no hope in, in, in you to say that you know, what they're actually feeling.
00:57:36.592 --> 00:57:39.802
That's what kind experi experimenting comes in.
00:57:40.072 --> 00:57:54.952
Like, dude, honestly, if you want to do something, uh, let's just say you want to get stronger for some reason, or you wanna help, um, um, older folk, um, move better.
00:57:55.793 --> 00:57:56.213
Okay.
00:57:57.172 --> 00:58:04.762
Do you, do you move Well, if you don't, if you don't move well, you gotta get yourself to move better,
00:58:05.152 --> 00:58:05.452
right?
00:58:05.663 --> 00:58:07.163
So then you can help out other people.
00:58:07.853 --> 00:58:11.032
I think that we, we kind of get stuck in that as coaches.
00:58:11.032 --> 00:58:21.083
Like, you don't do it enough yourself, and that doesn't give you, I mean, when I'm doing something and I've done it, bro, it gives me the fricking passion.
00:58:21.262 --> 00:58:23.512
Like, do you feel that?
00:58:23.722 --> 00:58:27.983
Because this is what I felt, you know, we don't, we don't try stuff enough.
00:58:28.853 --> 00:58:31.012
Um, experience.
00:58:31.012 --> 00:58:32.873
Yeah, experience comes from that.
00:58:32.873 --> 00:58:34.163
And then you obviously.
00:58:35.047 --> 00:58:42.248
Get these people in a broad spectrum of challenging as a, they got a challenging personality.
00:58:43.177 --> 00:58:49.867
You got, you got those low key, low key ones that are super, you just kind of go with the flow and you're gonna have to have that.
00:58:49.927 --> 00:58:55.898
So you have to jump out there, but you first have to start doing stuff on your own too.
00:58:56.318 --> 00:59:03.818
You can't just come in here and, Hey, I need you to do X, Y, Z, and then you've never done it at all.
00:59:04.958 --> 00:59:05.983
It doesn't make sense to me.
00:59:09.032 --> 00:59:09.322
Yeah.
00:59:09.443 --> 00:59:13.463
I need to just encourage everyone, just, get the reps in, get the exposure.
00:59:14.293 --> 00:59:22.557
Yeah, I get it, dude, because look, trust me, it's like, as you, you have a, I'm sure you have a busy schedule.
00:59:23.547 --> 00:59:27.717
I have a busy schedule, but I, I've noticed that the moment I let that slip.
00:59:29.023 --> 00:59:33.882
My credibility, at least for myself, for myself, within myself mm-hmm.
00:59:34.123 --> 00:59:43.483
Starts to diminish, you know, like, you're not doing what you're trying to tell these people to do, or what's going on here.
00:59:46.123 --> 00:59:46.273
Yeah.
00:59:46.273 --> 00:59:55.693
So I think that that's one I, I really encourage, uh, people out there and look at the, at the beginning you're not gonna have all these comments.
00:59:55.873 --> 00:59:58.632
It's just what It's, yeah.
00:59:58.813 --> 01:00:05.088
So you have to spend time learning about yourself, how you learn, what you feel.
01:00:05.378 --> 01:00:08.143
Again, something that we talked about with the athletes.
01:00:08.172 --> 01:00:08.472
Yep.
01:00:10.032 --> 01:00:12.552
That's gonna you a way better coach.
01:00:15.222 --> 01:00:15.762
For sure.
01:00:16.063 --> 01:00:16.693
All right, Feb.
01:00:16.693 --> 01:00:18.313
We've been going about an hour already.
01:00:18.313 --> 01:00:20.833
I can't believe this, this is like flown by.
01:00:21.222 --> 01:00:23.563
Um, and I appreciate, I wanna be respectful of your time.
01:00:23.742 --> 01:00:36.132
So I'm gonna hit you with a few, uh, few outro questions and uh, these can be long or short, whatever you want, but, uh, anyone who follows you knows that you are like the king of microdosing.
01:00:36.132 --> 01:00:41.233
So I'm always seeing, you know, so many couple handstand pushups, like three jumps every day.
01:00:41.742 --> 01:00:42.193
I love it.
01:00:42.193 --> 01:00:44.143
So you've been microdosing a lot of this stuff.
01:00:44.382 --> 01:00:45.193
Um, yeah.
01:00:45.702 --> 01:00:54.643
Tell me what you're currently, what's in your current microdose schedule, how long you've been working on this, and what made you start and what benefits have you seen from it?
01:00:55.543 --> 01:00:59.262
So the micro dosing that kind of stopped.
01:01:01.077 --> 01:01:02.307
I'm, yeah, yeah.
01:01:02.338 --> 01:01:02.967
For a little bit.
01:01:03.748 --> 01:01:13.827
So what I noticed is, I'll take, for example, my, I was doing FI was doing 50 handstand pushups a day for about 60 days.
01:01:14.157 --> 01:01:14.608
Okay.
01:01:15.297 --> 01:01:21.418
That was one, like, that was my, that was my, that was like my 4:00 AM training session.
01:01:22.137 --> 01:01:24.777
And then I would also work out like around one.
01:01:25.257 --> 01:01:25.677
Okay.
01:01:26.847 --> 01:01:36.208
Um, what I did notice about that is I got better at doing handstand pushups, but my wrist work starting to get pretty red.
01:01:36.898 --> 01:01:37.168
Hmm.
01:01:37.318 --> 01:01:42.327
Just because obviously structure of the risk is not supposed to, at least.
01:01:43.168 --> 01:01:44.547
And you, Paul, on.
01:01:45.163 --> 01:01:47.952
Not getting enough rest probably.
01:01:47.952 --> 01:01:48.012
Yeah.
01:01:48.463 --> 01:01:50.413
And then adding a lot more stress throughout the day.
01:01:51.222 --> 01:01:55.753
Um, but I still, you know, I still kind of throw that in there every once in a while.
01:01:55.842 --> 01:02:00.253
I also did, for the longest time, I did it for about almost 300 days.
01:02:00.702 --> 01:02:01.873
That would jump for 10 minutes.
01:02:01.873 --> 01:02:03.043
This was before you followed me.
01:02:03.762 --> 01:02:14.833
But there's something underlying about that, that it wasn't too intense because the 10 minutes obviously can't be too max.
01:02:15.228 --> 01:02:18.733
The, the bouts can't be too, um, heavy.
01:02:19.172 --> 01:02:22.143
It build like this conditioning my lower extremities.
01:02:22.472 --> 01:02:26.853
Maybe I'm seeing like delayed response two years later.
01:02:27.362 --> 01:02:27.572
Okay.
01:02:27.572 --> 01:02:32.668
I like to look at it as like, you know, those, those, uh, seasonal workers mm-hmm.
01:02:32.748 --> 01:02:34.148
That like go hard for.
01:02:35.088 --> 01:02:41.148
Four or five months, dude, they're like super, they get super strong and then they lay off for four months.
01:02:41.237 --> 01:02:41.568
Yeah.
01:02:42.288 --> 01:02:43.398
And then they come back.
01:02:43.577 --> 01:02:45.288
It's like, dude, you got huge.
01:02:45.858 --> 01:02:46.338
Like yeah.
01:02:46.338 --> 01:02:50.418
It was obviously that resting period, but I really hit it hard for six months.
01:02:50.958 --> 01:02:58.757
Um, I did that, I did the, the, uh, three, uh, CJs and 10 PGOs a day.
01:02:58.967 --> 01:02:59.057
Yep.
01:02:59.867 --> 01:03:01.907
Uh, that one worked well.
01:03:02.088 --> 01:03:05.987
I did started seeing, uh, some diminishing returns on the CJs.
01:03:07.068 --> 01:03:12.077
Uh, you kind of cap off after, after you kind of coordinate it.
01:03:12.077 --> 01:03:12.588
Mm-hmm.
01:03:12.858 --> 01:03:17.927
So it takes about a month, month and a half, kind of start to see some diminishing returns.
01:03:18.288 --> 01:03:18.617
Okay.
01:03:19.427 --> 01:03:24.887
Uh, the, the pogo, same thing.
01:03:25.728 --> 01:03:32.373
It wasn't, there wasn't enough, like it became more sub max.
01:03:34.353 --> 01:03:38.373
Even though it was max, that because I wasn't recovering fully.
01:03:38.943 --> 01:03:39.302
Yeah.
01:03:39.543 --> 01:03:44.072
It was like working at like, instead of a hundred percent, maybe 80%.
01:03:46.652 --> 01:03:50.583
But, so right now I'm kinda, I like to kind of jump into that.
01:03:50.672 --> 01:04:01.563
I, I do like a microdose for like, I call it seasonal microdosing, honestly, where I just go ham, like until I'm wrecked.
01:04:02.163 --> 01:04:02.313
Mm-hmm.
01:04:02.557 --> 01:04:04.563
That's, that's such a bad thing to do.
01:04:04.563 --> 01:04:14.103
But, but then after that you continue, you keep the skill and you obviously your body recovers and it just feels different.
01:04:16.112 --> 01:04:19.143
But yeah, the 50 handstand pushups a day was, that was nuts.
01:04:19.532 --> 01:04:21.213
But I was also cutting too, dude.
01:04:22.623 --> 01:04:24.932
So it was better in a sense.
01:04:25.443 --> 01:04:29.612
But I was taxed, like the rest of my routines were suffering.
01:04:30.952 --> 01:04:32.088
I don't know what got me to 50.
01:04:32.088 --> 01:04:33.032
It was probably me.
01:04:33.288 --> 01:04:34.577
Oh, I did 20 now.
01:04:34.788 --> 01:04:36.197
Oh, let me do 50 now.
01:04:36.737 --> 01:04:37.668
More and more and more.
01:04:38.603 --> 01:04:38.873
Yeah.
01:04:38.873 --> 01:04:46.612
I'll be interested when you circle back to some of the stuff, just, you know, with the retention of the, uh, neuromuscular aspects of just the coordination, right?
01:04:46.612 --> 01:04:47.512
Like how does it Yeah.
01:04:48.112 --> 01:04:49.432
What's the second go around Mike.
01:04:49.583 --> 01:04:50.228
But, um, yeah.
01:04:50.452 --> 01:04:50.572
Yeah.
01:04:50.572 --> 01:04:54.443
You'll have to let me know when we, when you get to that spot and wanna put that stuff back on the menu.
01:04:54.737 --> 01:04:56.152
I'll, I'll jump that on.
01:04:56.152 --> 01:04:58.313
Uh, probably at the beginning of next year.
01:04:58.733 --> 01:04:59.992
Yeah, for sure.
01:04:59.998 --> 01:05:07.492
But, uh, but in those, like, um, what I did notice is that was only my upper body stuff.
01:05:07.762 --> 01:05:10.643
Like I didn't do any kind of weightlifting for upper body.
01:05:11.333 --> 01:05:16.132
So where I'm offsetting now is I'm adding a lot more barbell work, like bench press.
01:05:16.132 --> 01:05:17.063
Overhead press.
01:05:17.603 --> 01:05:19.103
We got a lot of bent over rows.
01:05:19.103 --> 01:05:19.193
Mm-hmm.
01:05:19.463 --> 01:05:24.112
I'm doing a lot more, uh, bent elbow stuff, bicep curls, tricep extensions.
01:05:24.893 --> 01:05:31.063
I am interested to see once I go back to that at the beginning of next year and taper down on the strength training mm-hmm.
01:05:31.483 --> 01:05:35.983
How that is gonna differ from, uh, the beginning of
01:05:35.983 --> 01:05:36.402
last year.
01:05:37.753 --> 01:05:38.322
Yeah, for sure.
01:05:38.322 --> 01:05:42.742
I'm super curious about it, so I'll probably pick your brain once you get into it a little bit.
01:05:43.643 --> 01:05:44.063
Alright, man.
01:05:44.063 --> 01:05:47.213
Well, what, uh, what is next for Fabian?
01:05:47.213 --> 01:05:49.612
Like what big projects are you working on?
01:05:49.617 --> 01:05:49.728
Mm-hmm.
01:05:49.972 --> 01:05:50.782
What are you excited about?
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Right now
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we're trying to really get this, uh, online thing, uh, the Athlete Accelerator program.
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Yeah.
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Um, but the thing with that is we actually have a sports psychologist really, really, really solid.
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It kind of, what, what doesn't, what a lot of these programs don't do is, uh, give these athletes because the soccer's such a cultural thing.
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These kids are bred in like, uh, settings where.
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Oh my gosh.
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You're great.
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You're the best.
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You're the best.
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You're the best.
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You're the best.
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You're the best.
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Mm-hmm.
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And dude, once they get to a level where everybody's good, the psychological component just, they literally crumble down.
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Yeah.
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So we kind of came out with this, with this thing that kind of helps, which again, I wish I would've known about this.
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It gives them, uh, a lot of these athletes coping strategies, game time decisions, how your previous day will affect the way your performances.
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All this stuff we know as coaches, uh, but it's actual, on the psychology part, there's modules to it.
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Uh, again, great sports psychology, uh, referenced.
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John Couture.
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John Kucher is the, the guy we kind of partnered up with.
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He's worked at IMG Academy.
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Mm.
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But again, he's like what you said, he's, he's, he's the guy that's literally working with these athletes that has no social media presence.
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So it's kind of hard to use.
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We're kind of using my page to push that on.
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Yep.
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But yeah, we're just, we're we're, that's honestly the, the big one here, obviously here at the brick and mortar.
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Uh, I'm, I'm wearing a different hat nowadays.
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It's like, at first you, you wear the hat of servicing sessions.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then you have to wear a different hat of like, teaching people how to service sessions.
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Yeah.
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Which is a completely different game, which I'm sure I gotta, I gotta take some, some, some pointer from you.
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That was biggest one for me, dude.
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Um, and so yeah, that's the biggest one here.
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Uh, growing this, this, uh, the gym here and yeah, I mean, honestly, that's it, man.
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Obviously, family continue to do what we're doing at the house.
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Get this puppy.
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Situated.
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Yeah.
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Well, I'll make sure that we get a link to the Athlete Accelerator so that people are interested.
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They can follow your work, they can find that.
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Um, where else, I know you've got multiple Instagram things going on, but what's the, what's the best place to connect with you?
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Learn more about your methods, your work online?
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Um, online?
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That's a great question.
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Uh, I would say, yeah, just, just shoot me a DM on Instagram, honestly, with the Instagram.
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I'm pretty open to, to like, yeah, I'm open to having conversations about, there's no, I don't hide anything, bro.
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You just ask me.
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Here it is.
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This is what I think might work for you, might not.
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Mm-hmm.
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Just, just shoot me a, shoot me a message.
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I'll be there.
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Okay.
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Well man, I appreciate your time.
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Thank you so much.
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I'll make sure we get a link to your Instagram page.
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Um, we'll put uh, fit factor in there too so that people can find that if they're in the Houston area Anybody who takes the time can carve this into their schedule.
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I super appreciate it.
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So I'm humbled and, uh, honored to have you on, man.
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This was a great time.
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No, dude.
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I appreciate you, man, for reaching out.
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Alright brother.