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#146: Gill1918 presents Track Tribe LIVE: (Part 1) "Simple Systems = Big Results" with Trend Deadmon hosted by Kyle Jones · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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OK, so hey everybody, welcome back.
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We are live once again on the Trap Tribe live session,
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coaching session. I'm here with Coach Trent
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Deadman. Of Altamont High School.
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Woo, I'm excited. Thank you for joining us, Trent.
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How are you, brother? I am wonderful coach.
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Thank you for for putting this together and and for for having
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me on. Absolutely.
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Yeah, Yeah, it is fun. It is fun.
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So we're going to get into a conversation here, y'all.
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We're going to talk about how we build up better athletes across
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maybe the multiple sports and using some limited resources.
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So I want you to make sure that you grab your favorite beverage,
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get grab your favorite snack, get comfortable, take a bunch of
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notes. If you have questions, please,
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by all means, feel free to throw them in the chat.
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We're live on on YouTube. We're live on Zoom.
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We were in the track drive and you got any questions?
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Even if you're on Twitter, feel free to throw anything out
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there. Matter of fact, throw some
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curveballs at him just to see if he can answer this question.
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I'm just kidding. Don't mess him up.
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But we're going to have some fun here and we hope that you get a
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lot of value out of this. I don't want to waste any time.
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So I'm going to open this thing up like I always do with this
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simple question, coach. So tell us a little bit about
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your program. Tell about little bits about
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your philosophy, who you are, the nuts and bolts of who you
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are and your program, right? So I'd love to hear that.
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What is it about you and who are who are you and what is your
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program all about? Yeah, right on.
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So I'm in, I'll be in. It'll be my 13th year coaching,
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you know, as it in some capacity tracking cross country.
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So yeah, yeah, only been a head coach officially since 2020 on
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the high school side. I I did start a cross country
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team on the on the middle school side.
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That was cool. So still got that going.
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But on the high school side, I've only been that the head
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coach since 2020. So that was a wild year to start
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coaching. You know, we were the, the
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weekend, I'm getting the girls prepped for our first indoor
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meet of the season. And then we get, we get the, the
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message that Friday that it's cancelled.
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So I got, I got, I got to tell him go home.
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And then, and then we never practiced again and never saw
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him again. It's sad.
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So that was the start of my, my head coaching career.
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So that was kind of interesting. Jeez, that's a crazy start to
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it. And I and I remember those,
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those years and when we were getting ready, everybody's amped
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up and then we're like, hey, the world shut down.
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Yes. What?
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What just. Happened, I know, and I, you
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know, I, I've been, I moved back to my hometown after a little a
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few years away and, and it was always the assistant coach and
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it was always around the team and helping out girls team, boys
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team didn't matter mostly on the distance side a lot of times,
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but was always applying anytime those head coach jobs came up
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when I was always applying and then finally got it in 2020.
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It's like, all right, here we go.
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I'm so excited and then boom, it gets shut down.
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So that that was rough. That was rough, but then came,
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came back the next year and, and, and then we had a state
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champion. So that was cool.
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That was a good that was a good year, too.
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Hurry up and wait, right? Exactly.
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So anyway, the coaching journey to head coach.
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Yeah, so now transition to the boys head coach now.
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So I've got a awesome new girls head coach now.
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So I've been the boys head coach now since 22.
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And so we're coming into like the first year of like my, the
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freshman that I, you know, kids that I've had since freshman
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and, or, you know, they don't know any different as far as
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coaching goes. So like, I can say it's like my
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program now, so to speak. I don't like to say I don't like
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to like my, it's ours. You know, I like to use the, my
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word. But anyway, so that's, that's
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what, you know, how my, my coaching journey.
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I'm, I'm the also the cross country coach at the high
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school. I got lots of hats I wear.
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I'm doing 2 two teams in one season.
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I'm doing a junior high team in the high school team, and then
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I'm doing the high school boys on the on the track side.
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So. Holy moly.
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Yeah, Well, we're a small town, you know, everybody's got to do
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a little bit of everything. Right.
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Yeah. So as long as it's not dairy,
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you know, like that show it welcome to dairy.
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As long as it's not dairy, you know, we're, we're a small town
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type of that, you know. Yeah.
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No, no, we keep it. We keep it PG and we're good.
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Yeah, it's no, it's fun though, because you know, especially
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like some of these kids on the, because I'm, if I'm getting them
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in, in cross country, as you know, 5th and 6th graders, by
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the time they're seniors, you know, I've seen these kids for
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eight years. So I really get an opportunity
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to coach them up and, and, and see them grow and mature and,
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and progress. And, you know, we've, we've had
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some really good success stories.
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That's been fun. Dude, that's that's an amazing
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advantage it. Kind of is.
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And I'm the PE and I'm the junior high PE teacher over
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there too. So it's like, I know like I've
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got I've got stats on it. I can tell you their broad
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jumps. I can tell you their vertical.
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Like I got stats on all these kids.
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Yeah. So I'm like, all right, I know
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who's coming up. I know who I got, who I can put
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where in a few years, you know I.
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Do it's insane. You know what?
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It's crazy. I.
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Can play the I can play the long, long game.
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That part, it's like, yo, you got years to stack all their
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models, especially at cross country, right?
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Because cross cross country developed, it's stacking miles
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over years, right, And you just get a little bit better and
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better every year. Totally that advantage from from
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the middle school all the way up.
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Man, I would like just fight a polar bear for that type of
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advantage, right? Right, it is.
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Yeah. Shout out.
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Shout out to Coach Berry. Granted, Berry.
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I always. He said.
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It's like they get a PhD. He's like, it's like 8 years.
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It's like 8 years in the program.
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It's like that's that's kind of true.
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That's a fun analogy to think of it that way.
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And some of these kids do by that, you know, these kids that
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when they're seniors, if they're going to like, you know, we've
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got a freshman. He went D1 Eastern this year.
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He's our jumper, our our state champion last year, You know,
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like he's become a student of his sport for real.
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Like he, I, I coached, I coached myself out of a job like by his
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senior year, like I can't help you, man.
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You need to go go talk to your college coach by now, you know,
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like, yeah, that and and you want that.
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You want those kids to to get that good and and to want to
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know about it. Right.
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That's that's exceptionally that's exceptional way to do
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they think about things. Rather I should say, because you
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do want them to be able to move on to the next level and then
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continue to challenge them. But you know, they they
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shouldn't want to have to stay with you for the rest of their
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life, right? You want to you want to coach
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yourself out of a job and it's like so.
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You should progress beyond me, I hope for that point.
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Right. So let's switch here in a little
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bit. So I want to go you, you talked
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about having a, a, a, an access to the, the middle school is all
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the way through the high school is right.
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And now your track programs running, you're a head coach.
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And now you've got your first set of seniors coming up, right?
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This I'm going to tell you right now, you're going to cry like a
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baby when they graduate. It's inevitable, right?
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But let's talk about those, those systems that you already
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have in place, right? So we, we were rolling here on
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the premise of the simple systems that you do have in
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place because you have to have a system in order to be
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successful. So what does that really look
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like from week to week, right? They talked about Coach Beery
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working with you, right? What is that?
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What does that system look like? What are those conversations
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like? Kind of walk us through maybe
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even some examples of how you structure these programs or
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these these week to week plans for your athletes.
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For sure. Yeah, well, when I'll, I'll,
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I'll jump back to when I started, like going back to that
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2020 season, you know, then this before I even started working
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with coach Bury. But you know, I had, I had been
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in the program, had been been an assistant, you know, and had
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been around a lot of these kids and it, it especially on the
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girls side, it was toxic like like as far as the culture was.
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And so I knew like when I took over, like outside of like how
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we're going to train, like we, there definitely needed to be a
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culture shift, you know, so that a, so we could get numbers out.
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Like our girls numbers were, were so low.
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Like we, we couldn't, we couldn't fill a van, you know,
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like there was like 3 girls out by the end.
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They were they were they were quitting and really talented
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girls, girls that were getting talked to by colleges like
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should it should have done it, you know, after high school, you
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know, should have been successful, but they just they
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just fell out of love with the sport, you know, through through
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some just toxic relationship kind of stuff.
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So there was definitely some like culture building that had
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to happen there for sure. So I knew that we had to address
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that somehow, you know, and at the same time, like, I don't
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want to pigeonhole myself like into a style of coaching, but
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like feed the Cavs was definitely like firing up
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whenever I was taking over the head coaching positions.
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And one thing we were lacking was speed and any kind of like
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an identity. And so that was a way for us to
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tap into like, who are we and what are we doing here?
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You know, like it was just like it was this coach would the
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coach didn't really have any progression or any rhyme or
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reason behind why they were doing anything.
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And it was like, we, we've got to give ourselves some purpose
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and some meaning, you know, and, and so by writing stuff down,
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recording, ranking, publish, you know, like we, they weren't
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taking any times in practice, you know, they weren't tracking
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PRS and progressions and stuff. Like it was almost like a
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workout club. Like they were just doing stuff
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to do. It's like, no, we're, we're a
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track team. Like we, we, we compete.
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We're, we're, we're chasing performance here.
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So let's start looking at numbers.
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Let's start actually like, are we are we getting better?
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You know, other than just at meets where we're like we're
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running to the ground, you know, like everybody's got everybody's
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got 4 events every single meet, you know, like that two mile
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girl doesn't need to also run the four by one.
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That's stupid. Like what are you doing?
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So there was that kind of stuff going on as like we've got to
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give ourselves some purpose into meeting here.
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Did you say the? The two mile girl was running
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the four by one. I got, I got into it with this
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when I was the assistant, I got into it with this coach and I
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was like, what are you doing? She's like, she needs to do this
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for the team. She needs this for the team.
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I was like, OK, well, would you have one of your 100 runners run
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the two mile for the team? Like come on.
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Like she was like trying to punish this girl or something
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like that, that kind of stuff. So it was like I said, it was,
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it was toxic. It was toxic.
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So like we got to change the narrative around track.
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First of all, like with the, with the, with these people,
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with these groups, you know, so, so then COVID almost became a
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reset because, you know, then come around to 2021, you know, I
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get a bunch of freshmen and, and really talented girls and you
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know, some of them had, who had lost their 8th grade year and
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we're like ready to get one back.
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And we're, we're, we're ready to work.
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So by the time we we were coming back into a a full season in
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2021, we did have a positive culture and we were heading in
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the right direction. So what was the catalyst for
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that positive culture? And then, you know, what does,
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what does that look like? How do you, how are you getting
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things to work for you week to weekend?
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Yeah, so. Yeah.
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So, so, yeah. So then looking at the Nelson
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bolts and I'll, I'll start, I'll start trying to pull some stuff
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up here as well. Just looking at like some weekly
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things. Definitely.
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We had to keep it simple because I had had a lot of new, new
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kids, like kids that were new to track kids that didn't have like
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a track language or a track background or it wasn't a +1 or
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a productive 1, you know what I mean?
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Like they just didn't know like what it really was, especially,
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you know, on an event specific level.
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So it was like, you know, we've got to teach them these things
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in a in a simple way, you know, and you've just got to give them
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like language that they can understand.
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So here I'll, I don't do a whole lot with spreadsheets.
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I do with data, but when it comes to like programming, I
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just like make it look easy for me to read.
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So I just make my notes kind of like a presentation style.
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So I'm going to try to pull these up for you all right
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screen share here we go all right.
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Can we see that it? Is starting to shine.
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It is starting to shine all right.
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And if I need to zoom in on anything, you know, we can get a
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little a little more granular. So there's just, you know, I
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just make myself a little weak, you know, And so on the on the
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student side, like I'm not giving them, you know, a novel
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of like every single Rep, every single pace.
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And you know, we kind of deal with that day of, you know, I
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just give them the theme for the week for the day, you know, So
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it's kind of like a recipe each each, each day.
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We have a daily recipe, I would say.
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And then like in like here's here's here's what we have, you
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know, each week. And so we'll look at a daily
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recipe, but this would be like Monday we're going to come in
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and do an acceleration. Tuesday would be our lactate
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workout for that week, which is going to be, you know, something
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more intense, you know, like some repeat two hundreds.
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Wednesday, you know, we're going to be pretty toast for people
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that that don't need the day off.
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We're going to come in and try to do a little bit of light
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skill and technique work or we're going to be doing like
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recovery kind of stuff. When we're recovered, hopefully
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we're going to be ready to do some Max velocity on Thursday.
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Friday we're going to come in and do some meat prep and then
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Saturday we got to meet. So that's just what I'm going to
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send out to them, you know, on our on our GroupMe, how many
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that's that, that's what they're going to see on their side just
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so they have an idea of what to expect each and every day, where
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we're going to be, what time that kind of, you know, the
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basics. And I and I really don't
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typically give them much more than that.
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And then I always give myself some little like themes and, and
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quotes and stuff like things that I'm going to talk about and
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little, little quotes. I like to use that kind of like
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theme each day on the mental side of things.
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So then so then you know, so they each so this would be our
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recipe. And so basically every single
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day from like tomorrow will be our the start of our second week
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of pre season till the the state track meet.
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We are starting each practice the same exact way.
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We pretty much have a flow and a pattern.
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So like when I say it's simple, like it's, it's, it's, it's
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predictable. It is, is really what I like to
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think of it. Like they know what to expect.
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There's not a whole lot of mystery.
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If you've been showing up to practice from day one, you know,
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you know this stuff for you, you can do it in your sleep.
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This is this stuff becomes like second nature to you.
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It becomes ingrained. There's so much so that like I
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got to get on them and be like, hey, you're getting lazy.
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You're getting, you're going through the motions.
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You know, we got it tightened, tightened it up a little bit
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just because they get so, so used to it, you know, and, and,
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and I don't want it to become stale.
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So, you know, I might, I spice it up every once in a while, mix
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it up sometimes. But like I said, they, they,
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they definitely know what to expect day in and day out.
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We're going to start with our PR, We're going to start with
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torso activations. We're going to go into our speed
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drills, you know, from there, you know, we're going to do
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spring ankles from there. You know, it might, it might
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vary a little bit just based on the theme of the day, but
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there's definitely like a pattern and a rhythm to every
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kind of day. Like they know what to expect on
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a Max V day. They know what to expect on a,
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on a lactate workout day. There's not a lot of surprises,
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you know, and and like I said, I'm not necessarily telling
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them, you know, in the in the in the pre weeks sent like, hey,
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we're doing, you know, 40 yard dashes.
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You know, I'll I'll probably tell them that the day of, you
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know, and give give them the workout details.
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But as but as far as you know, what that workouts going to be,
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they're not going to be that nervous about what it is.
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They're not going to usually get surprised with any kind of like,
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Oh man, coaches got us doing 84 hundreds today or something
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crazy like that. Like they if if the Lactaid
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workouts coming, like I'm letting them know.
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Hey, guys, get ready tomorrow. We're, we're do we're doing, you
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know, 3-1 fifties, you know, no walk back, rest hard as you can,
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you know, and then, and then we're going to do some black
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tape retention stuff like then we're going to hit the weights.
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They they they know if if it if lactates on the schedule, they
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know what that means. So let me ask a question because
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we might have some people out here who may not be very
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familiar with the terminology. For.
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Sure. And and the system that you have
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in place, right. So maybe we take a sidestep here
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and take a about 120 to 180 seconds here, 2 to 3 minutes
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right, to breakdown this and simplicity for newer coaches,
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right, who might see this type of set up and go, oh, OK, what's
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an RPR zone? And well, what, what are spring?
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I'm not saying go through every drill because those are things
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we they can come into the track tribe and ask those questions
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and learn and we can do videos about that later.
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But what is the, the idea? What's the overall concept with
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your setup? Is it very, excuse me, is it
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varied warmups for different days or is it very similar with
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very slight variation? What is it that they're doing,
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you know, as you're kind of walking them through that warm
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up process to get prepared physically and then mentally?
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Yeah. So, you know, with the way, the
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way that we are, we kind of start our practice.
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We've, we've got kids, we've got kids rolling in at kind of
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different times based on like some, some after late school
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work things and in different schedules.
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So I, I want everybody to have something that they're, that
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they know how to do on their own.
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If, if they miss it, you know, like if, if the, if the team
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already did and I and I, and I was like, wasn't there for the
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1st 5 minutes, you know what, that kind of thing, things that
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you, you can. So we teach them a lot of these
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things pre season early. Like I said, we're doing these
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things right now and we're really drilling them down so
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that when we get into the season, it's second nature.
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So the, the, the pattern would be like something that's
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something that's going to do an activation.
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So we're doing, we're doing the RPR zone, which so the focus is
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breathing. So you're always going to start
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with your breathing, you're going to get with your breath,
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no matter what it is that you're doing, whether we're at a
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practice or at a meet and no matter what the workout is that
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day, you're always doing something where we're we're,
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we're hitting that reset button on from, from what you just did
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to, to now we, we want practice to be the best part of your day.
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And but we want you focused and dialed in.
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So, you know, so that's what that that first portion there
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that we say we call activate and all of that is to kind of like
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get you out of school mode or work mode or whatever it is you
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were just doing. And now, now you're in practice
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mode. We want, we want that be that
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like positive shift. So it starts with the breathing.
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So that's kind of like just that signal and, and the RPR, which
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if anybody wants to learn about that, that's just the signal to
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the brain and the body that all right, we're, we're, we're doing
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the thing. Now it's, it's time to do the
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thing. And then you know, that, that
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torso activation, you know, just to, to, to very in a, in a very,
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what am I trying to say low impact way, you know, get, get
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the blood flow and, and the heart rate going.
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And then we, and then we do the spring ankle.
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That's something that we are, we're always doing because we're
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trying to address our, our, our foot and our lower, our lower
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leg and, and, and stiffness and strength in the, in those
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positions because that's something that we need.
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Whether we're a thrower, sprinter doesn't matter.
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So those, those are things that we set that up that way because
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that those are things we can do as a team.
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Those are things that we we find to be useful every single day,
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no matter what the theme is for that day, no matter what it is
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that we're doing. Those are things that we can do
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together. You know, the throws captain can
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lead his group, the the the sprints captain can lead their
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group, that type of thing. You know, that that's like our
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our beginning of practice. We are our circle of time, you
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know, because we don't, we don't do static stretching.
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We don't mess, right? Yeah.
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Yeah, nobody should be doing static stretching.
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We should know enough to not do static stretching.
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So if you're new and you're doing, you know, straddle
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stretches with your head trying to get to your toes and then
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staying there for 20 seconds, please stop.
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Yeah, please don't. Please talk to us.
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Come. See us?
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We, we've gotten away from that. That's the no.
22:08
Judgment. No.
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Judgment. Right.
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Maybe quiet I'm. Going to be quietly like I'm
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definitely I'm bad. We'll be at practice like at the
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track and we'll be doing this stuff and I'll be like looking
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over at the softball team, like doing some static stretches.
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I'm like shaking my head. The like, coach, don't say it.
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Don't say it, coach. I'm like, I know, I know to be.
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Fair. That's where that's where we got
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to educate, right? And so they know.
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And they learn. They know.
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They know when they see it. If we roll up at a meeting, they
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see a team static stretching. They look at me and they're
22:38
like, yeah, OK, yeah, we. Put that we even run out over
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there, right so and that's the educational piece, right?
22:44
It's the other sports out there don't know right.
22:47
And they they haven't caught up to what dynamic stretching is or
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dynamic mobility or dynamic warmups are at this point.
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And we have to educate baseball team.
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They they were warming up at high school and they they then
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they realize they hey, you guys look really loose and really
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fit. Dude, I can tell you right now
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our warm up is harder than a lot of teams practices.
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Yeah. Yes.
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And they will, they will tell you.
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And I've had some people do our warm up and they're like, matter
23:17
of fact, we had a basketball coach.
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He, he just started coaching cross country with me this year.
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We started coaching together, I should say.
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And he went through the warm up and he, he, he came and
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whispered in my ear, 'cause I want to cuss you out right now
23:28
because this warm up is so hard. And it was just a warm up.
23:31
And the cross country kids are like, they're laughing and Joe,
23:33
they're cracking up. And they're, they're because
23:35
they're like, yeah, you see what we're going through right now?
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It takes us about 20 to 25 minutes to warm up on a big one
23:41
anyway, because it gets kind of cold out here sometimes.
23:43
But all that to say, if you're out there and you're still doing
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static stretches, please take off your tube socks, put away
23:49
the 1980s gym shorts, and come to the future.
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OK, we. Got we got new stuff for you,
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Yeah. And it doesn't got to be
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complicated. No, no, it doesn't have to be
23:59
complicated exactly. But to your point, right, you've
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got it all laid out. You've got a system here.
24:04
Here's what everybody knows to do when you first step in the
24:06
door. Here is what you do.
24:08
We teach you, and then you do it right.
24:09
We're not babysitting you. You have to be able to operate
24:12
on your own. And now you're going from the
24:13
reflexive. What is that reflexive something
24:18
performance? Reset yeah, performance.
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Reset. I think I couldn't.
24:20
I was like drawing a blank here, your performance reset here,
24:24
reflection, performance reset. First of all, that's amazing
24:27
because not a lot of coaches do that where it's hey, let's get
24:30
let's get our breathing into rhythm.
24:31
Let's check our, you know, different different parts of our
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body to make sure we're in the rhythm.
24:35
Some people do the tapping right, You kind of calm down,
24:38
but those are all different things.
24:39
That's amazing. So if you don't know what the
24:41
RPR zone is, y'all, that's something that you can take away
24:43
from this and you've got several things that are dynamic that are
24:46
leading you to your warm up. You split off into groups.
24:49
And even if I would say even if they're not into the RPR, people
24:52
think it's voodoo or whatever, people don't like it, you still
24:55
got a hat. You have got to do something
24:58
that sets that bridge between or that, that that reset button.
25:03
Like I said, like, yeah, where you are, you, you, you got to
25:06
have that mental reset. They got.
25:08
They maybe they had a bad test that day, you know, or maybe
25:12
their girlfriend cheated on him or who knows.
25:14
Like you got, you got to have something that's going to put
25:18
them in in practice mode because that that needs to be a positive
25:21
reset. Even if practice is going to be
25:23
hard, hard that day. Even even more importantly, if
25:26
practice is going to be hard, like something in your warm up
25:30
to start with, even if, like you always tell a joke, like who
25:34
cares? I guess do something, do
25:35
something where you're going to change the mood towards, Hey,
25:40
it's time for practice. That they all know and get and
25:44
feel it. And I like that different
25:46
because it's physical. It's like you're getting out of
25:48
your head and into your body that.
25:50
Part and the real reality is that's sports psychology, right?
25:54
But also you're training your body to get ready to perform.
26:00
And I think that's key because what you do at practice is what
26:05
shows up, not what you think about doing or not what you
26:07
wanted to do, right? What you did actually is what
26:10
shows up. So when you reset that mean we
26:14
got kids like now with like high anxiety and ADHD and all these
26:17
other acronyms, right ABC? Have hunched over their
26:20
Chromebooks all day long. And say, hey, reset, come back
26:24
outside, right, OK. Stand tall and breathe.
26:27
That part I love it all right so we're we you got a whole system
26:31
here this is what everybody does and it's.
26:33
Exactly what we do. For a meet.
26:35
So they, you know, like what we do in practice is we're going to
26:37
meet. So, you know, when we were get
26:39
off the bus. What we do in practice, you're
26:41
doing the same thing. I don't care if it looks
26:42
different. Yeah, get down on the ground and
26:44
do the same thing. Exactly.
26:46
Because you don't do anything. You start changing stuff up and
26:49
then that next thing, yeah, you're thrown off, right.
26:50
You throw off your routine. So what is it like, right?
26:54
You, you, you, I see the system when they get to the warm ups
26:58
and kind of split out. This is what you guys need to
27:00
do. Now, you're already developing
27:03
athletes from the middle school all the way up to the high
27:06
school, right? What is it like to consistently
27:10
develop durable athletes in that small school environment?
27:13
So you won't find a kid that has had PE with me that doesn't know
27:19
how to do like they might not know that it's called the Jeff
27:23
Boley distance warm up, but they know the Jeff Boley distance
27:26
form. Like they know the skips, they
27:28
know the twist, they know it like they know the speed drills.
27:32
They might not know if it's speed drill A or B, you know,
27:35
like they might not know what they're called necessarily, but
27:38
they've done them like twice a week in PE for eight years, you
27:44
know, So and then and then if they're, you know, then they're
27:47
if they do cross country with me as well, then they're, you know,
27:49
they're hitting it even more. So we're definitely I'm trying
27:55
to ingrain movement patterns into as many of these kids, even
27:59
if I'm never going to coach them, like, man, I hope I'm
28:03
helping the other sports or at least hoping I'm helping these
28:06
kids have a quality of life. So I'm definitely trying to
28:09
ingrain a lot of these movement patterns as early as I can, like
28:13
kindergarten, like we're going to learn to skip, we're going to
28:15
learn about, we're going to do this stuff, you know, I'll, I'll
28:18
give it a fun or funny name. We'll call them cloud runs or
28:21
something, you know, But I'm, I'm going to try to teach these
28:24
movements to these kids as early as I possibly can.
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