Sport performance and development as an athlete is much more than just time spent training or practicing.
Hard-work is a prerequisite of high performance, but everybody works hard these days. Your competition is lifting, getting extra shots up, taking extra batting practice, working with a skills coach, etc. These are becoming baseline things.
Where real separation is made is through how an athlete sleeps, eats, recovers, studies the game, takes care of the physical AND mental health, their breathing, and how the handle stress, pressure and anxiety that comes with being a student-athlete.
I often find athletes will address practice and training performance very hard - they'll put up extra shots, they'll spend extra time in the weight room, they'll hit the batting cage after practice for more swings, etc. BUT these same athletes won't go to bed 30-minutes earlier, they won't give up cereal for breakfast, they won't make their own lunch and instead rely in poor school lunches, and/or they won't take 10-minutes after training/practice to take care of their body.
The reality is, those things will have a much bigger impact on long-term performance, than getting up an addition 100 shots, or an extra training session. It's always a difficult conversation when we ask athletes if they want to be great, and they all say - "YES!", but they won't do those things asked from them. If you really look at successful athletes, performers in any field - you'll find they truly address these "lesser" areas better than their peers.
The goal of this page is to provide an area of information for athletes to start to acknowledge and address these areas. Hopefully you find the information here helpful and can put it to use!
Hard-work is a prerequisite of high performance, but everybody works hard these days. Your competition is lifting, getting extra shots up, taking extra batting practice, working with a skills coach, etc. These are becoming baseline things.
Where real separation is made is through how an athlete sleeps, eats, recovers, studies the game, takes care of the physical AND mental health, their breathing, and how the handle stress, pressure and anxiety that comes with being a student-athlete.
I often find athletes will address practice and training performance very hard - they'll put up extra shots, they'll spend extra time in the weight room, they'll hit the batting cage after practice for more swings, etc. BUT these same athletes won't go to bed 30-minutes earlier, they won't give up cereal for breakfast, they won't make their own lunch and instead rely in poor school lunches, and/or they won't take 10-minutes after training/practice to take care of their body.
The reality is, those things will have a much bigger impact on long-term performance, than getting up an addition 100 shots, or an extra training session. It's always a difficult conversation when we ask athletes if they want to be great, and they all say - "YES!", but they won't do those things asked from them. If you really look at successful athletes, performers in any field - you'll find they truly address these "lesser" areas better than their peers.
The goal of this page is to provide an area of information for athletes to start to acknowledge and address these areas. Hopefully you find the information here helpful and can put it to use!
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