Latest / Yips and Giggles / Best Moments & Top Tips [Ep 1-4]
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- speaker-0: What's up guys? Welcome to our podcast. She finally realized that it was all mental. you know, when it comes to playing, you know, not to lose, I think again, that's another manifestation of anxiety and worrying about what the future outcome could be rather than focusing on the process and the little goals that you can take to, again, better yourself, try to optimize your performance and put yourself in the best position for that result that you do want. Like, you know, everyone says like try to focus on the process and things like that. you You know, it is hard to not think about the result that you want, right? Especially once you get to like a certain level of competition. But I feel like the people who are able to separate those two things being like, yes, I want this certain result, this positive result, but here's how I'm going to get to it, are the ones that set themselves up for success versus those people who are like, I want this result and like if I don't get this result, it's the end of the world. Exactly. Again, like you're focusing on that end point rather than realizing there is a certain process that you have to go through to ⁓ get to that end point. And again, focusing on those little steps in that process ⁓ way better mentally than just, you know, only worrying about winning. ⁓ speaker-1: one time where I was taking organic chemistry, which that was not fun at all. And I remember, I think I got a bad grade on a test and it was like the first test of, think the whole semester for that class. And I remember we were doing some doubles drill and I just remember I missed like my third backhand in a row in the net. And I just started bawling crying. Wait, speaker-0: I must have been wrong. speaker-1: I don't think you saw me. I like, I'm not OK. And it had nothing to do with missing the shots. It was the fact that I just got a really bad grade and it was just really affecting me. And I think missing that third ball, was just like the last straw. It just started falling. I was like, I can't do this. speaker-0: At least it wasn't Krispy Kreme Alex. Guys, in college, Alex would- speaker-2: Hey, no, hey, hey, don't eat for that. speaker-1: Anya's really calling you out right now. speaker-0: I've seen. Yeah. One of the most impressive things I've seen. Also one of the most disgusting things I've seen in my life. you know, Krispy Kreme, you know, donuts, ⁓ for those who don't know what Krispy Kreme is, ⁓ you know, original glaze. speaker-2: founded in Winston-Salem. speaker-1: you. Shout out. speaker-0: Original glazed hot and fresh, like tastes like butter can go down in like two seconds, but like sometimes Alex would overdo it. And like, I don't know, we would get like a dozen and then like two minutes later you'd open the box and there was only six left. And he would just be like, inhaling. They were so buttery and we'd be sitting there like, ⁓ my God. speaker-1: I was like, what the? speaker-2: They were unbelievable though, weren't they? were so good. Do you remember, I literally remember exactly where we were parked, or not parked, where we were driving when I tried to eat 12 in one minute. We were just coming out of the thing, literally at the junction, it was a red light, and think Kyle was like, I'll give you $10 if you eat 12 in one minute. I'm like, bet. Yeah, that was a bad joke. speaker-1: I 100 % agree with this. speaker-0: So is there a way for these players and these coaches who don't really have as much control over the schedule? ⁓ Like kind of like in the situation I was talking about with NHL to. Help player well being like I know one of the things again. My dad was talking about was keeping practices light and just right, you know, maintenance. Are there any other strategies that could help? speaker-1: Yeah. You know, I think again, listen to your players, but I think variability can be very important. So, you know, for example, in tennis, you can't be doing five baskets of serves every day, you know, like the monotony of that. Exactly. The same motion over and over again. Like you have to have variability that is going to help your body adapt better. And it's going to keep from that exhaustion happening and that fatigue from happening. And at the same time, when your dad's talking about practices and things like that, you can also kind of tap into the periodization of things and the planning of things. So you can break it down into kind of progressive stages or training cycles. so basically what I would do is plan backwards. So look at when your event is, when your game is, when your tournament is the most important part is paying attention to the volume and the intensity. So When we're looking at volume, we're looking at basically the amount of work that players are doing right. When you're looking at intensity, that's really the quality of work. so, you know, people always say like, go 110%. And it's like every practice I'm like, that's not possible. That's when you get to the exhaustion stage and you hurt yourself. You know what I mean? And so I think to avoid burnout and to avoid that overload there really needs to be. kind of a balance between those stressors, the stress, the adaptations and the recovery, right? And so if you can kind of think about it in different stages again, so you might have a prep phase, you might have a competitive phase, peak state phase, and then a recovery phase. And so again, let's break it up by intensity and volume. So when you're in like the prep phase, that's kind of when, you know, you don't really have ton of matches coming up or anything like that. That's when you want low intensity, high volume. So you can be practicing a bit more, you know, longer hours, but you're not quite going as hard as you would later on. Whereas when you get towards the competitive phase, you might be kind of bumping up the intensity, but lowering the volume, right? So that might be, you know, playing practice matches because you know, you want your players to be kind of in that match mode almost. And you want them to have that intensity on the court and get ready for those matches. So, but at the same time, you don't want to overwork them because you are at that competitive phase. You don't want them, you know, fatigued for those matches. And then you get to the peak state. So that's when you want to be as prepared as possible. You don't want your players to be tired. You want to get rid of that fatigue. but at the same time you want them to be at their strongest fitness as possible, right? So that would probably be increasing that intensity even more and keeping that volume low. ⁓ Then the recovery phase is pretty easy. You decrease that intensity, you decrease the volume. So you're taking everything down during that recovery phase. Honestly, just going by those phases can be so helpful and working backwards and making sure that you're using progressive overload, you know, you're adding those stressors onto players at the right times so they can adapt and their bodies can adapt. can mentally adapt, but at the same time you need to be letting them recover. And I think, you know, with all the schedules changing and all of that travel, it's going to be important that coaches kind of implement this kind of stuff into their daily practice.