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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I’ve got an 11-year-old who’s smaller and younger than everyone in his group. He plays up, against bigger kids, older kids, and most days he’s getting cooked. He knows it. He signed up for it. A few weeks ago he finally got a shot to fall. One bucket. And he celebrated like he’d just won
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She kept pushing the start date. New to exercise, completely overwhelmed, no idea where to begin. Every week there was a reason it wasn’t quite the right time. Work was busy. Wait until after the holidays. Maybe the new year. I’ve watched a hundred people do this and it’s almost never laziness. It’s that the
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I had a brand new player, never trained before, and I tried to make a drill easier so she could get a few more makes and feel good. She turned it down. Not rudely. She just wanted the hard version. She wanted to keep bricking it until it started going in, the way a skateboarder
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There’s a version of problem-solving that feels productive but actually keeps you stuck. It goes like this: something goes wrong, you feel bad about it, and you decide that before you do anything else you need to fully understand why it happened. Makes sense on paper. In practice it tends to turn into weeks of
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Three weeks in and nothing is happening. You’ve been consistent, mostly. You’ve been doing the thing, kind of. And now you’re starting to wonder if the thing even works. This is the part where most people quit. Which is unfortunate, because it’s also usually right before anything real starts to happen. The timeline between starting
There’s a specific type of player that defenses love. Not the bad shooter. Not the slow guy. The hesitant one. The player who has the skills, has put in the work, and then gets into a game and decides that today is not the day to test any of it. Defenses don’t need a scouting
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She was going through cancer treatment and still showing up to train. We had 30 minutes. Sometimes less. Her schedule was unpredictable in the way that treatment schedules are, which is to say completely. She was fatigued in a way that a good night of sleep doesn’t touch. The program she’d been running wasn’t an
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There’s a question I get pretty regularly from clients who have been training for a while. Not beginners. People who have been showing up consistently, putting in real work, seeing real results. And they pull me aside at some point and ask some version of the same thing. “When does this get easier?” One client
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I had a middle schooler who reacted to every single mistake like it had personally wronged him. Missed shot, pounded the ball. Sloppy handle, threw his hands up. Bad footwork rep, completely checked out for the next three. It didn’t matter what we were working on. Shooting, dribbling, footwork patterns, reads off the drive. Every
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