Most athletes do similar things, but only a select few differentiate themselves.
“If you want to be like everybody else, do what everybody else does.
Walk like them. Talk like them. Act like them. Train like them. Go where they go. Do what they do.
In a world where average is the default setting, if you want to be different, your actions must reflect it.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
Being that my world is Athletic Performance, I’ll bring my message from my lane, though I believe the context to be true in many other realms outside athletics.
I will also note that the world is wildly “unfair” and there are also anomaly’s out there (1%er’s) with better genetics and resources.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s say you’re just a “regular, average person” (Ray Zingler violently waving his hand) athletically, academically, etc.
If you know that you’re starting your race in the middle of the pack (by definition, most are) to begin with how can you expect to do the same thing as everybody else and attain a different result?
You can’t. If you believe you can, well, that is definition of insanity.
Look at the modern athletics scene, for the most part, everybody has similar resources.
Coaches, fields, equipment, weight rooms, etc.
Yes, as mentioned above, some are better than others, but the point I’m making is that we don’t have a huge access problem in America.
If you want to play, there is a team within 20 miles of you, you can play on and if you want to lift, most school’s have a weight room.
But here’s the point of my message:
If you’re again, a middle of the pack player (not talking about on your “team” but in the bigger picture of American youth athletes as a whole) and you wake up, go to class, do your weights class, go to practice, and then go home, and EVERYBODY else is doing that, how can you expect to elevate yourself?
And no, going to the globo gym fitness center to do the chest press machine doesn’t suffice as extra training.
To elevate yourself, you must:
-Prioritize rest and nutrition.
-Stay away from ‘that’ crowd.
-Get to the meetings and film sessions 10 minutes early every time.
-Attack practice.
-Perform extra practice on your own (if everybody is “playing club” how are your “extra practices” any different?)
-Train hard with a real S&C Coach who can aid in your development. Everybody is in the “weights class” do you think that is the only training the elevated athletes are taking advantage of? No chance.
If you want to be different, you have to be different.
