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Why the Best Basketball Players Look Like They’re Barely Trying
The Best Player on the Floor Looks Like He's Barely Trying. That's Not an Accident. I've got two kids in ...
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You’ll Eat the Vegetables Eventually. Why Wait for the Diagnosis?
You'll Eat the Vegetables Eventually. The Question Is Whether You Wait for the Diagnosis First. I have a retired client ...
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Stop Catching the Ball Like It’s on Fire. Take Two Seconds.
Stop Catching the Ball Like It's on Fire. Take Two Seconds. I train a couple of middle school girls who ...
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The Setup Is Half the Workout. Nobody Warns You About That.
The Setup Is Half the Workout. Nobody Warns You About That. I did a workout audit for a client a ...
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The Right Basketball Decision Isn’t Always the Right Decision for You
The Right Basketball Decision Isn't Always the Right Decision for You I train a middle schooler who's been working on ...
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Stop Chasing the Perfect Workout. Do the One You’ll Actually Repeat.
Stop Chasing the Perfect Version. Do the One You'll Actually Repeat. I train a woman who became a grandmother a ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Give Your Shot Some Bones: When a Smooth Stroke Is the Problem
Most of my job is making shots smoother. This one was about the opposite. I worked with a middle school ...
Why Some Exercises Always Feel Hard (And When That’s Lying to You)
If an exercise feels impossible, you're probably reading the wrong signal. I had a client who could not do single ...
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You’re Showing Up to the Wrong Game in Your Head
I've got an 11-year-old who's smaller and younger than everyone in his group. He plays up, against bigger kids, older ...
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Stop Punishing Yourself Into Habits That Were Never Going to Stick
She kept pushing the start date. New to exercise, completely overwhelmed, no idea where to begin. Every week there was ...
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