10.10.2016

Workout:

• Every minute on the minute 10 reps of:
• Goblet Squats x3
• Deadlifts x3
• Reverse Lunge x3
• Step ups x3
• Swings x3
• Lateral Squats x3
• Snatch x3
• 240 movements in 24 minutes

This was tough, definitely a 7/10 - I feel more than ever that the goal of 300 is possible.

Reading:

I did not read.

Notes:

One of the obstacles to improvement that a "bad" team faces is that the players don't think they belong on a "bad team".

To flesh this out consider a mid-region team of 20 individuals.  12 of them think they can make one of the nationals teams nearby, 3 of them actually can.  The 9 "delusional" players blame their teammates for the mediocrity of their program, they think to themselves "I am too good for this garbage", and they hemorrhage opportunities to grow both as players and as individuals.  The r-squared relationship between the improvement of these 9 players and the improvement of their team is something like .95.

(Think they can make a Nationals Team) - (Can make a Nationals Team) = (Ego v. Ability Discrepancy)

The larger a teams Ego v. Ability Discrepancy the worse that team will function as a team.  The way to minimize this discrepancy is to attack it at both ends: first, check people's egos and make them own the reality that they aren't as good as they think they are, second, put in the work so that a larger piece of the squad actually can make a Nationals Team.