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Overtime: Training and Dedication · Let's Talk with Carl Lee

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  This is Overtime, a weekly moment of off the Cup commentary on everything from
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  sports and politics to observations about everyday life from NFL all Pro curl Lee.
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  Welcome to Overtime. Hello, ladies and gentlemen. This is curl Lee and
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  with let's talk and this is the overtime segment. And today I want to
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  address We've been talking about nutrition and training and how vital those things are to
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  young athletes, and we had a gentleman in to speak about it and who
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  was very knowledgeable. Andrew was you know, he was very again, very
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  knowledgeable about the food intake and all those kind of things. But what I
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  want to address in this is basically, how do you or not how do
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  you? But why wouldn't we understand the importance of eating and and and understanding
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  like who who is that person that you want to trust your kid with in
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  the training aspect of it. Nutrition is something that you you have to pretty
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  much do on your own, and as a parent, you're probably gonna have
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  to do some research to to kind of figure that out and and understand exactly
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  what all the different terms and all all those all that information that was put
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  out there. You're gonna have to understand some of that, but there's some
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  simplicity to that just by just doing a little bit of research. But the
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  training aspect, you know, training like for me to go out and train
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  a defensive back is one thing, because that's a skill set, or somebody
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  going out training the quarterback, that's a skill set. But training, you
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  know, sports, training specifically to participate in a sports is a highly unique
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  thing and it and to me, I think it requires an educational background that
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  I don't know if everybody everybody has that. You know, not saying that
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  that doesn't make you you're not a trainer. I'm just saying that, you
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  know, when you when you look at somebody with twenty five years of experience,
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  you know with you know studies and you know biomedical science and all those
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  kind of stuff, all that type of stuff, I think you know when
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  you when you're dealing with someone like that, I think you're there's a comfort
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  level in trust and trusting in what he knows. And again sometimes understanding what
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  he knows or what that person would know is challenging because we don't know.
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  I remember I remember training all the time when I was a kid, talking
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  about wanting to play at the next level. I didn't play any more games
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  than we had on a schedule. I was played three sports, so I
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  never was sitting around then when school was out, I was always training to
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  be in shape. And I think I think the question that I would ask
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  is how how would an athlete, high school athlete ever be out of shape?
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  M I don't know if there's a if there's a time for you to
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  be out of shape. Because let's just assuming that you're playing one sport and
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  you're you're you're want to master one sport. Okay, that's fair. But
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  in the when that sport's done, what are you doing? What is the
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  work that you're putting in, Because if you're not putting in any work,
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  then you're not getting the you're not getting the most out of who you are
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  or what you could be. I know that it's it's it's difficult to to
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  consume yourself into you know, two hours three hours after school working out or
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  or or getting up early in the morning before school. I literally practiced or
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  or worked out in the mornings and had football practice in the evening, basketball
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  practice in the evening, track in the evening. Because I did it in
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  the morning, and I was used to that, and I'm just trying to
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  I'm trying to encourage us to understand that sports is more complicated than just being
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  the top quarterback in the in the conference, or the top quarterback in the
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  state or something like that. I think the issue is what are you doing
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  with your body? Are you putting in are you putting all the right stuff
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  in it? Because if you want, if you want that D one,
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  if you want to play on Saturday, if you want to play on Sunday,
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  and when you're playing on Saturday, you want thatt D one offer.
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  I think that you have to understand that there is there is more of a
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  commitment to the training aspect of it than there is the participation part of it.
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  You can participate, you can you can play games, you can do
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  these kinds of things and try to get you know better, But what is
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  your what is your what is your goal? Like? What is that my
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  my? I wanted to be the best conditioned person that I could be.
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  I wanted to be the best conditioned person on the team. I don't know
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  if I ever reached that, but what I do know is I was always
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  in the best shape that I thought I could put myself in that I could
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  get to at that moment. And because of that, I had the confidence
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  to I didn't have to worry about conditioning, I didn't have to worry about
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  being tired. I could play at a level, a high level, throughout
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  the whole entire game and see And that's that's part of the problem. Imagine
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  you, you know everybody talks about, you know, all that scout that's
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  going to be at the game. Okay, Imagine yourself being a scout sitting
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  in the bleachers and you're watching some You're watching a kid who can't make it
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  through the first half of a game, whether it be football, basketball,
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  or whatever. You can't make it through the game, even though he's putting
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  out or she's putting out a whole lot of effort. They would love to
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  see you be able to play that whole game and be in shape, because
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  what they would what you think when you see that, when you see somebody
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  in shape, it makes you think, Wow, they they're putting They're willing
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  to put in the work. And the question is if you want this,
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  if you want a sport, if you want to be a D one player,
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  if you want to play on Sunday, or you want to be an
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  NBA star, you want to be something, Why would you like Why would
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  you not put everything that you have in it? What could come before that
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  measure of success? Who could call you and say, hey man, let's
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  go do this, and you say, okay, I'm good, I just
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  won't work out today. Who can do Who would you leave? What would
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  you leave for? See? Because you couldn't. Any of my buddies will
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  tell you that you could not. You could not interfere with my workout like
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  you could not won. You're probably not going to be up until I'm done,
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  But you couldn't convince me of not wanting to be get my get my
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  workout in. There's just no way. There's nothing comes before that today.
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  You could make the case that just about anything could possibly come through it.
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  And my thought process is if you want it, if you truly really,
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  really really want it, then you should really really really go after it.
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  And the only way that you can go after is you got to commit yourself
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  to something that is the most important thing to you. Because I truly do
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  believe that we have more athletes who can be can have huge success in sports
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  in West Virginia. In Kennall County, in South Charleston, in Charleston,
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  in Putnam County. We can have them have that measure of success if we
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  just put our time into it and put the and put the work in.
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  So my challenge is for you today is why not start tomorrow, put the
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  time in and see what you can get. All Right, we're out.
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