Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth - 2397: How Do I Train Like My Favorite Athlete?

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

How Do I Train Like My Favorite Athlete? Training like your favorite athlete does NOT guarantee you will look like them. (1:53) Common misconceptions that training like a pro will give you pro results:  #1 - They are genetic anomalies. (5:10)  #2 - Their training is VERY individualized. (7:09) #3 - They are paid to perform. (11:46) #4 - Train like them and you will get terrible results. (14:43) What to do instead: #1 - Correct your imbalances. (16:27) #2 - Practice your sport. (21:08) #3 - Get stronger. (23:10) #4 - Mobility is key. (26:14) Related Links/Products Mentioned Visit Eight Sleep for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump Listeners! ** Use code MINDPUMP to get $350 off Pod 4 Ultra. Currently ship to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia ** Special Promotion: MAPS Performance Advanced half off. ** Coupon code ATHLETE50 at checkout ** Watch Receiver | Netflix Official Site Watch Quarterback | Netflix Official Site Mind Pump #1262: Why Fitness Assessments are Important Mind Pump #2280: Why Everyone Should Train Like an Athlete MAPS Prime Pro Webinar MAPS Prime Webinar Mind Pump #2255: The Smart Way to Improve Speed, Power, & Performance With Brian Kula Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube Mind Pump Free Resources People Mentioned Daniel "DC" Cormier (@dc_mma) Instagram Patrick Mahomes II (@patrickmahomes) Instagram Joe Rogan (@joerogan) Instagram Brian Kula (@kulasportsperformance) Instagram

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All right, here comes the show. All right, so you have a favorite athlete. You want to look like them, you want to move like them, so that means you just got to train like them, right? Not necessarily. That's what we're going to talk about in today's episode, how you should work out if you wanna be like your favorite athlete.

This, what am I? I always wanted to be like Bo Jackson. Yeah, oh, greatest athlete, one of the greatest athletes. Should just train like him. Yeah, I think, first I think we should talk about the misconceptions around athletic training. Number one, training like somebody is not a guarantee at all that you'll look like them or.

It's actually almost a guarantee you won't. Very, that's more true than 50 you will. Yes, 100%. Not to interrupt your, but Justin just said something that actually just made me kind of think like, what are the most iconic pictures or covers of magazines of athletes that caused that. Like you said one right now, the Bo Jackson behind-

Yeah, see, remember that? Oh yeah. You had the bat behind him with the shoulder pads. There's a Reggie Bush one. So look at the Reggie Bush Sports Illustrated cover. Trying to think of another one like that where- Actually, LL Cool J, but he's an entertainer. That's a good, that's a fair one.

Yeah, I'm thinking of like, oh you're right, he was not technically an athlete but there's there's definitely I like Muhammad Ali, but as a kid the one where he's doing this and he just knocked down Sonny Liston That was especially for the time So that goes too far back for me to definitely don't remember people talking about like his body I mean of pictures like that Bo Jackson picture was so famous that people wanted to train to look like that. The Reggie Bush Sports Illustrated article, people wanted to train so they could look like him. Was it Terrell Owens? I mean, he had like...

There's a football one where he's like this. Yeah, there was one like an iconic picture of him. I know. There's the, who did the naked one where he has got a football cover on himself and he looks all shredded. There's definitely like that there's definitely like it there's got to be someone's got a mate had made something on the internet that's like the top 10 athletic body photos that everybody like aspired to be like but every time one of those comes out you get everybody wants to know how they were we did one one time and again back to the actor it wasn't an athlete what was the guy who did the the movie the young kid Zac Efron when he did the Baywatch

there's the there's that one right there no I mean it's like action heroes now too that's the big thing with like your Marvel superheroes yeah like people really see them get in incredible shape like your Thor it's important to understand with with sports especially at this level, especially at professional level, they don't work out to look good at all. They could care less. It's a side effect. They work out for maximum performance.

In fact, they work out so much for maximum performance, or that's such a singular goal that they compromise their health and longevity. And they would compromise their aesthetics if that were the case as well. Oftentimes, their bodies reflect their fitness and their athletic performance, but how they look is not something they even care about. It's really about performing. And one athlete I can think about

that does not look like someone that works out would be Fedor Melenko, one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time. This guy looked like a kind of a chubby dude that looked like he drank beer every day, and yet here he was, you know, beating the crap out of everybody. Or our local guy. With incredible fitness.

Our local guy from. Kane Velasquez? No, not even worse than Kane. What's his name? He's UFC heavyweight. Rashad? No, UFC heavyweight. Only person to even give John Jones a run for his money.

Why can I not think of his name right now? Isn't that Rashad Evans? Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, I know who you're talking about. He's local, too. He's an announcer now, too. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, looks so out of shape,

but he has had some of the best cardio. And these guys work out like crazy. Yes, yes. So it's a terrible way to gauge is somebody working out effectively because first of all genetics play a massive role. These are genetic anomalies. When you're looking at that level of athletic performance, what you have is a unique combination of extremely rare genetics, extremely rare athletic genetics to the point where these pros would be better than you at a sport that they never played or practiced.

They could pick up almost any sport and would probably dominate 99%. I remember the story you guys tell of those 49ers who were football players who played pickup basketball with all you guys and just were dunking, even though none of them really played basketball. Yeah. They're genetic anomalies, so their bodies

react and respond to workouts very differently than ours do. How rare are their genetics? I mean, as rare as it is to see someone that's over seven foot tall, for example. So you don't want to copy the routine of a genetic anomaly because you're not anywhere in the same universe as that individual. And so their workouts, not only are going to be wrong for you, they're going to be

so wrong that they'll probably cause you to injure yourself. What did you say? It was DC. Thank you. Hey, there you go. Danielle Cormier. I was like, why can I, I'm so mad at you guys for not being able to get that answer. No, I've actually trained in a guys for not being able to get that answer.

No, I've actually trained in a gym where he. He's a local guy. He's from around here. He's one of my favorites. And he's very fit, very athletic. And he looks like a mean, bad dude. He's a bad dude. Yes, but the type of genetics that these athletes have

are special and unique for their specific sport. So this is why high levellevel swimmers look very different from high-level sprinters or why professional football players look very different from professional baseball players or from other or a tennis player. They were literally born to be excellent at that particular sport and then you combine that with hard work and um, and you combine that with the right training and then you have this kind of like perfect, uh, storm. Um, their training is also extremely individualized.

So forget professional athletes for a second. If you took a kid all the way up through elementary school, junior high, high school, college, and pro level, if you started like that, the training doesn't get specific to that person or it's, it starts start it like that, the training doesn't get specific to that person, or it starts off somewhat specific, but the higher level they train, the more that they train, the more experience they get, the more specific their training gets.

If you look at a pro athlete's correctional exercise and training regimen, it's very specific to that person. If you take an eighth grader, I'm just trying to get you stronger. You know, we're just gonna squat, we're gonna deadlift. A lot of fundamentals you gotta work through. Yes, so their routine is their routine, literally. It would be like saying, if I put on their shoes,

they're gonna fit and I'm gonna move like them. It's like, no, they don't fit you. Well, to add to that point, a great example of this, I don't know if you guys watch, I know you don't, but maybe you watch the, did you watch the quarterback? There's now a wide receiver one on Netflix series. So they did a breakdown of Patrick Mahomes. And it was like really fascinating to see his trainer

train his like the stuff that he's doing. And when you get to that level, you are doing something that is so specific to a movement pattern that he does specifically all the time. There's unconventional side throwing and all that. And so now none of that matters or you never even get there if you didn't first lay a really solid foundation of the fundamentals first.

And so you have these young kids and even adults that see these athletes that look a certain way, that train a certain way, and they want to model that and they skip all the foundational stuff. They have poor mobility, they have a poor connection to certain muscles, they don't even squat properly, they don't do all these things, which there is a whole host of years of gains and progress to be made just by doing the fundamentals and getting good at the fundamentals. And because they were marketed to in a magazine article or a TV commercial, and that's their favorite athlete, and they aspire to be like their favorite athlete one day,

they wanna jump to that athlete's current workout, but not realizing that there's been decades before that of a lot of foundational things that they laid first before they piled that on. Yes, and it's not just individualized to that individual, and they have a very unique goal and body type and all that stuff. It's also individualized to the time of year,

whether they're off season or in season, very different. The training's very different when you're in season versus off season. It's also individualized to whether or not the person has had previous injuries, their energy levels, the position on the team that they play, the things that they need to work specifically on. So even if you do get a workout in a magazine or online

that says this is so and so's workout program, okay, first of all, is it their workout program? Oftentimes it's not their real workout program. And then, is it their workout program? Oftentimes it's not their real workout program. And then when is this their workout program? In season, off season? Was this when they were- How old were they when they did it? That's right.

So it's individualized to such an extreme level that it's not even the best workout for that athlete at the wrong time. Not just, you know, barring whether or not it's a good workout for you or I or anybody else. So it's so extremely individualized, and because their genetics are at such an extreme level, they can do things or they utilize things

or they benefit from things that you might not necessarily benefit from. In fact, oftentimes, things that they would do that would benefit them would only injure you or set you back. That's the example I'm giving you. If you saw, you would understand, if you the Patrick Mahomes thing, the stuff he's doing seems a little ridiculous almost.

Like they are teaching him to do like this spinal rotation and explosively and stuff like that. It's just like, dude, there's only one person in the world probably that's really, really beneficial to and it's that guy right there because he's actually one. I heard, I think it was Joe Rogan was kind of describing like it being an art in terms of like, like, so your top tier fighter, for instance, like being able to train at a level and a threshold where you can, you can squeeze out maximum potential and, you know, get that optimal force established and that the physique and everything to go with it in that temporary

Force established and that the physique and everything to go with it in that temporary Period of time to be at the absolute peak. It's unsustainable This is this but the portrayal of it in the media is like, oh my god This guy's in such great shape. It's like you just get the visual of it You don't actually understand the context of this is like absolute peak. It's unsustainable And immediately after that it's all gonna crumble. Yeah, and there's also the fact that these are professionals, meaning they don't do anything else. They're not, they're paid.

This is their thing. They're paid to eat, sleep, you know, recover, to train hard, to be redlining all the time. Like they're paid to perform. They can take naps, they can do things to enhance recovery, they can work out at any time of the day, they have people making their food, planning the workouts, giving them peptides or whatever. This is their job. So it would be like if you had this job, if this is all you did, then your workout would look very different for you

as well. That also puts it in a category of probably and almost definitely not for anybody else but for this particular individual. That makes a huge difference. Think about what it was like working out before you had kids. Just that alone. You had more time, you had more sleep, your body recovered differently you felt differently Think about what it's like to work out and worry about working out when you have certain bills to pay or whatever so They're paid to do this and that means that they can do and tweak and in training ways That they wouldn't be able to do if they had to get a regular job

You know, it's I'm thinking about a study that we talked about one time that you're making me think too, like what else makes them so unique that they have the ability, and you have to think this plays a factor in their ability to perform better and be able to recover better

and get better results from their training too. You know that study where I talked about, they did the free throws with the athletes and they found that the athlete that didn't even do it, they just thought about it. They visualized it that many times in the day, that they improved their performance just as much as the athlete that actually went out

and shot the 100 or 1000 free throws, I don't remember what it was, 100 or 1000, something like that. And so to the point you're making about these people are paid, they don't just train and then stop thinking about the training and they're like, they think about it. And I bet you guys have been in this space before. I definitely was when you competing. I was so in that mindset.

It was 24 seven. Like I, when I ate was about it. Like I was sleeping the night before thinking about how I was going to train, what I was going to eat the next day. And like, you got to think that that also plays a massive factor in the results that I'm getting out of that. And because I can, I can, my whole mind is wrapped around. Guard reads in, in, in the, the backfield. Like I, all I could do all day long was like visualize, like what that all indicated for me and where I needed to be on the field.

And it was just repetition constantly. visualize like what that all indicated for me and where I needed to be on the field. And it was just repetition constantly. Just, I couldn't get it out of my mind because it was the most important thing for me to not get leveled or to make a player to be effective. And you just have to think in that direction. If you're a top tier athlete, like all you can do is like obsess over like visualizing. Look, look, if you took a hundred fit people, a hundred fit regular people,

and you had them follow the exact workout routine of a high level athlete, those 100 fit people would get terrible results. They would get better results with a routine that was individualized for them. Far better results. And I'm talking about fit, healthy people, let alone average person who's just getting into working out. If I took 100 average people and had them follow the routines of a pro athlete, we would get a 90% probably injury rate. You know?

So the bottom line with this is if you train like your favorite athlete, you're gonna get terrible results. Now this leaves us with the question of like, well what do I do then? Right like I don't I mean I feel like this whole time we're like completely just like shitting on somebody's dreams who wants to train to be like an athlete one day it's like hang on it's not that it's not that bad and by the way it's it's easier it's better you'll get better results and I think that's the that's the the desired outcome of an

episode like this is to communicate to the aspiring athlete or the athlete who's trying to aspire to be like the pro athlete is like, listen, there are proper steps to train like that athlete or to get to that level, but it's not emulating exactly what they're doing. It's figuring out what is best for your body, assessing where your current level is, addressing your current needs, and laying a good foundation, and then learning to build on top of that.

And again, as you've heard us say many times on the show, the goal is to do as little as possible to elicit the most change, not jump all the way to this level that a professional, very specialized athlete is training. That's the opposite of what's gonna get you there the fastest or get you the most results. And so there is a way to do that. Yes, now the first thing you want to do as an athlete is find if you have any imbalances or

issues with stability or strength or flexibility and work on those because your performance oftentimes is limited by your weakest link, right? You're only as strong as the weakest muscle, or you can only move as fast as the slowest muscle that you have. You can only move laterally as fast as your stability will allow you to move. So imbalances are very important to identify

for the average person who wants to train like an athlete so they can bolster their joints and improve their ability to perform better. There's no leaks in strength, power, or speed when you don't have imbalances. I want to give an example of this for the young athletes that are listening to, like an example of that. Okay. We have talked about before, how much power is generated in the hips and it's really, uh, common for trainers to train somebody who has a weak and stable hips,

especially discrepancies from left to right. So here's an example of, we know that so much of your power and force is generated from the power that comes from the hips and the hip complex. And we also know that many times when I assess somebody, there is a major discrepancy from left to right, or they're so weak that you don't even have good mobility in that. And so if I have that and I jump that client to training like Reggie Bush or Bo Jackson and with these crazy exercises

and I don't address this person's total instability and weakness in their hips, it's like literally throwing a thousand horsepower engine in somebody who has like, you know, has no traction on tires, no good suspension and a flat tire like it makes no sense like other than to say that you could do the thousand horse it doesn't you're not gonna get the full like having cardboard axles right through it and so but what you'll get tremendous value from is is figuring that out is figuring out oh wow I have I

didn't know that I have really weak hips or I have a really weak left side where I, I can't do full internal rotation on that side and addressing the weak instability on that side and balancing that out lays a good foundation. So then I can then layer on the power and strength to those hips. And then also, and I get compounding results from that. This is an example of that. Yeah. Yeah. I immediately think of, and this is, this is a bit more, I guess, for your, uh, your older seasoned, uh, kind of athlete. Um, when, when I actually decided, well, you know, I'm going to go ahead and do

full contact football again, and this is just something that like, I haven't done it for well over a decade. Um, I'm, I'm meeting with these other guys who I know haven't been keeping their body in the kind of shape where it's like we could move this quickly, we could be explosive and we can take on this type of collision and impact. And the first thing I knew just based off of what I've understood about training clients and the importance of what you're talking about with imbalances and dysfunction and how much that impedes on performance. You know that became gospel for me and this is what I was bringing

into mind pump. It's about assessing that, it's about finding those opportunities to strengthen and stabilize around the joints because your whole body moves so much more effectively and you avoid injury. And so that was our main focus. And guess what? We didn't have the same number of practices going into that game as the other team. And the emphasis was completely different. There was, it was all about, you know, strength training and then like, you know, practice

and practicing, which, you know, to their credit in terms of like practicing the games, it was probably a better idea. But at least that was like the ground focus for us, which kept our team healthy. And also we were all moving at a pretty quick pace. And so this was essential for us, you know, to focus on that. Yeah. I mean, one way to do this, to maintain strength where you don't have many imbalances, is to make sure you train in different planes of motion. Make sure you press horizontally and vertically and you row and you pull down and you rotate and you move laterally, you move front to back, you do split stance exercises, bilateral exercises, you do unilateral exercise for your upper body

and bilateral. Like if you train in different planes of motion, if your goal is to have good athletic performance, this is key. Because one thing a lot of people do too, is they, especially for people working out for a long time, is they get really strong in one plane of motion. And then when they go to play their sport,

they're challenged outside of that and they get injured because they don't have a good balance. Yeah, they don't have a good balance of strength. Now next is, sounds simple, but sometimes people forget this, is to practice your sport and practice it often. Workouts, you should never do more workouts than practicing your sport, unless it's off season, which is totally different.

Practice is the most, playing your sport is going to make you better at your sport than anything. Back in the day, in fact, this is what all people did. People didn't do workouts. They just played whatever they were competing in more often. I've seen far too many times people who are really into a sport work out more than actually practice a sport.

So like, oh, I do jiu-jitsu twice a week. Yeah, I do jiu-jitsu twice a week, but I like to lift, I lift weights four days a week. Okay, well, what's your goal? Is it to be a bodybuilder? No. What's your goal? I want to be a great jujitsu guy. All right. Drop three of those weight training days and go do jujitsu four days a week and it will get far better. This has to be the most common piece of advice that we give because a very,

very common question that we get is athletes calling in that play sports, but also want to lift weights or want to look a certain way. And we almost always follow that up with a question of like, what's more important to you? Are you trying to look Jack like a bodybuilder? Do you care more about that? Or do you care about your Jiu Jitsu, football, soccer, insert, whatever sport? More often than not, they say like, oh I mean I, my sport, that's my most important thing to me. This is okay, well then cut way back on the training. Well,

yeah, but I want to be stronger and more explosive and better at my sport. Yeah, okay, well play your sport more. Nothing is going to make you better at that than doing that more and in fact you training too much, you're more likely to overdo it and impede on both. So not only get not get stronger because you're training three, four days a week, but also not be better at your sport. You're shooting yourself in the foot even more than you think. And you're doing all this work. It would serve you to scale way back on the training.

And if you're going to add anything more to your routine, add another day of Jiu Jitsu or another day of playing baseball or basketball, and that is going to make you better to sport, and you're more likely to probably build more strength and muscle that way. Right, now there are times when you do work out a little more than your sport, and that would be your off season if your goal is to gain more size. And the next point, strength.

Strength is the foundational physical pursuit for all the other physical pursuits. Meaning, if you get stronger everything else will improve. Some improve more than others, but everything gets better. If you get stronger you also get faster. If you get stronger you also get more stamina. If you get stronger you tend to become more stable. If you get stronger you're more powerful. So as an athlete when you're doing your strength training, like strength is the key. Can I get stronger?

Forget about how you look. It's all about what you can do, because obviously you're competing in a sport and that's all about what you can do. All right, here's where a lot of young athletes go wrong is they see some, again, pro athlete. They see a Patrick Mahomes, who's doing this really unique exercise

that he does to be able to throw the ball and whip it sidearm the way he does and they go, oh man, I want to be able to do that. And then, but yet they can't even perform a proper barbell back squat very well. And they, and they're spending this time doing this very specific exercise to improve something, not realizing that the benefits, the gains in their sport, the gains in overall strength that they're going to get by just learning how to perform a squat better and getting stronger from that movement is going to serve them 10 times better than keep doing this single exercise that they saw on TV or read in a magazine some athlete doing.

And that is probably one of the biggest mistakes that young athletes make is they they jump past these foundational movements that that give us back so much ROI on our time of training and they skip to these movements that are like splitting hair make a difference better for you while you're leaving so much on the table by not perfecting that. So I find myself when I'm talking to a young man or woman under 20 who's trying to be stronger, be a better athlete. And they're like, oh, my coach told me to this exercise and try this. And I saw so-and-so doing these explosive ice skater jump

to rings and do all that stuff. And it's like, OK, well, let me see your barbell back squat real quick. And they go do it. And it's like, they have terrible form. They're weak. And it's like, oh my god. I mean, I guess we could do this exercise.

Or we could spend some time really improving this movement right here. And you're going to get so much more on your head. The only way you're going to go faster with speed, have more snap, get a higher vertical jump, a lot of these very specific attributes that a lot of, uh, athletes want, you have to have that strength foundation for you to, to pull from.

You have to have that ability to summon and recruit, uh, muscles and engage those muscles, uh, at the time that you want them in, in a louder signal, you can produce, you know, the more powerful and explosive you're going to be, but that's all resting on you can produce, you know, the more powerful and explosive you're going to be. But that's all resting on the fact of, you know, you had this strong base already established and built, but you have to build it first. Totally. Now, finally, mobility for athletes is key.

Mobility is your ability to move through a full range of motion with strength and stability. Mobility is key because it allows you to apply your strength in wider ranges of motion in different directions. It means you're stable so you don't injure yourself. It means you don't have to get in the perfect position to exert the most force. As you know with sports things don't often look perfect. You often have to throw or catch or run or get hit or whatever from weird angles and mobility allows you to be able express strength and stability in all those different angles. If you're training to be like an athlete, your strength training needs to

involve. By the way, this is true for everybody I'll say. Everybody should have a mobility component in their training because you just get better results. You just get better gains, better results across the board. But this is especially true for anybody who's athletically minded. You wanna have mobility in your shoulders, in your spine, in your hips, in your ankles, in your entire body, your wrists,

so that you can do more with the strength that you've built in the gym. You could do more on the field or on the court. And the only way to do that is to practice your mobility, to work on your mobility, work in different planes of motion, it's key. Yeah, I mean, if you really wanna bulletproof your joints and get to the position where it's like,

you can actually find yourself in an awkward position, but you have the strength to support and stabilize you with that, and then also, you have the strength to move you out of that position. And it's crucial for an athlete to go through that and make sure that they're reinforcing a lot of these angles and introducing that so you're familiar with that placement of your leg. You're familiar with your arm in that position and And you can stabilize and support it,

because now you're going to be a lot more effective. You're going to avoid injury, but really, too, whatever movement you're doing, you're going to be more effective at that, whether it's slowing down or speeding up. You guys, what comes to mind for you when you think about most common areas where athletes lack good mobility?

Are there common things, or is it so individualized that every athlete has to do? I mean, I think right away, like with the most limiting factor to a good squat is 80% time ankles, right? Like ankle mobility is probably one of the biggest key factors to a poor squat. Almost always when I correct that or I elevate their heels, I already see a dramatically improved squat. And I know if I can improve that, then I can improve power and strength. Power and strength then translates into the field or court, whatever they're playing.

And so that's an easy one for me to address. Are there other areas when you think, when you look back to all the athletes that you guys train that was like common mistakes or misconceptions or areas that they didn't focus on? I think for most sports, not all, right? Some sports don't involve the lower body quite as much, but most sports involve some kind of running or jumping.

So ankle and hip mobility is key. Huge. Yeah, hip was probably the second one. Yeah, because this is why you see a lot of knee injuries. Knee injury, because the knee, you know, it flexes and it extends, right? It just bends and straightens out. It doesn't really rotate.

There's very little rotation in the knee. There's no muscles that rotate. It just has a little bit of give. And it doesn't bend laterally. It just flexes and extends. But the ankle, it rotates, it bends laterally, it flexes and it extends. The foot itself

has some mobility and then the hip is very mobile. If one of those, if the ankle or the hip lacks mobility and strength and stability in a particular movement, the ligaments of the knee got to hold the knee together so it doesn't fly apart. And so what ends up happening, oftentimes you see like, if I could name one injury in sports that most people have heard of, am I gonna say ACL tear yeah ACL tear ACL tear your ligaments yeah it's typically the knee and I would say ankle foot and hip have got to be the most common far more common and then pulled muscles as a result of compensating for the this lack of stability in the hips a lot of times

that I found with athletes so it's's like they're dropping like flies during season because, you know, this is just an area of focus that they didn't place because two, like even within the training cycles, a lot of times like old school, everybody's just doing sagittal plane only and we're never really reinforcing these lateral movements or these rotational movements. And so again, to the unfamiliar portion, the body wants to compensate, wants to tighten muscles to protect. And so athletes were fighting that a lot.

And so mobilizing the hips was tremendously effective. Is it fair to say that any injury that is self-inflicted, meaning that it wasn't acute from another athlete, running into me, falling on me, banging into me, so something I did to myself. Like I took off or I cut or I spun. Like tore an Achilles, tore an ACL, rotated and something snapped,

like is all of my, in relation to a reflection of my training and lack of strength and mobility and control in an area, right? Yeah, because you're moving your own body. And so you lacked something to be able to stabilize your own body. When you did something that was different if someone ran in. Right. That's what I meant.

Like that, I know obviously, uh, like I, so when I tore my ACL, it was actually going for a rebound and a guy fell on my knee. That's different. Like, he landed on it in a position, and it went. Sometimes it's what you do, right? Right. And so there's obviously injuries in sports many times that that happens. But there's also a lot of injuries

that happen when a wide receiver is going to catch a ball, and a hamstring tears. Or is turning to rotate a direction, and they blow their ACL arms. And there are the, and when that happens, when it's self-inflicted right that, that is a direct reflection of your training or lack of training in an area. And I don't think that's talked about enough.

I think we see that and we go, oh poor thing. Good coaches talk about, especially strength conditioning coaches can point out, high level athletes that usually get knocked out like preseason and it's like, Oh my God, what happened? But it's like, you could tell right away what they didn't put into their training that led up to that result. Yeah.

Also reminds me of the great interview that we did with Brian Kula, who said that he knew Christian McCaffrey was going to have the career season that he had before he even had it. Because of the way he was... How did he do that? Because of what he put in. Yeah, did he have telepathy? No, it's that he did all the work with him of training. And so he knew how bulletproof he was that year. And most now, of course, something rare, random could have possibly happened to him. But barring that, he was positioning his body to be in the most optimal position to break a record or do have the best season, and of course he did, right? So perfect example of that too.

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