Stop Waiting for the Perfect Stop. Great Defense Is What You Do After You Get Beat.
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Your Body’s Been Telling You for Months. You Just Thought It Was Saying Something Else.
Your Body’s Been Telling You for Months. You Just Thought It Was Saying Something Else. The busy working woman had been apologizing to me for months. She’d show up to her 30 minute session on time, having eaten something beforehand, ready to work. And about ten minutes in, she’d go lightheaded. Not gassed, not out
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How to Score Without the Ball in Your Hands
You Don’t Need the Ball to Take Over a Game Most kids think scoring is something that happens to them. The point guard decides to pass, or the coach draws up a play, or the ball just happens to find them in a good spot. And when none of that happens, which is most of
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Stop Skipping Workouts. Start Shrinking Them.
Stop Skipping Workouts. Start Shrinking Them. A client of mine, a newer dad, showed up to a session a few months back looking like he’d been through something. He had been. His newborn had him on a sleep schedule apparently designed by a tiny anarchist with no respect for labor laws. Some nights four wakeups.
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Are Your Habits Actually Matching Your Goals?
I had a kid tell me he wanted to play college basketball. No offers. Small school. No AAU. He was a good shooter, but he was small, and his handle and his footwork had a long way to go. He was lifting occasionally, shooting around a little, playing pickup with his friends, and he genuinely
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How Long Does a Muscle Strain Actually Take to Heal?
A client of mine spent a weekend playing baseball with his nephews, which is how most of these start. Nothing happened. No dramatic moment, no diving catch, nobody carried off the field. He just ran around like a man who had temporarily forgotten what age he was, and by Monday something in his quad had
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Why Losing 1v1 to a Bigger Player Might Be the Best Thing for Your Game
I had two of my players going at it in pickup the other day, and it was not a fair fight on paper. One of them’s a big, getting ready for high school, already carrying that size. The other one hasn’t hit his growth spurt yet, so he was giving up a lot of height
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Your Rest Periods Are Quietly Running Your Workouts
I had a client who got winded between every single exercise. Not the normal kind where you catch your breath and go again. She’d finish a set, put her hands on her knees, stare at the floor, and take way longer to come back than the exercise seemed to call for. And she’d decided, somewhere
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Push and Pull: How to Create Space Without Being the Fastest Kid on the Court
I had a middle school kid who could shoot the lights out from the perimeter. Catch and shoot, money every time. But the second he put the ball on the floor to drive, he got stuck. The defender would stay glued to him, he’d pick up his dribble, and then he’d just stand there holding
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Push Where You Are: Stop Forcing the Range You Don’t Have Yet
I had a client, an older woman, whose shoulders did not want to cooperate. We’d been working on her mobility for a while and making real progress, and she was fired up about it. She wanted to push. Add weight, chase the burn, actually feel like she was training instead of doing physical therapy homework.
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