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in this episode we're going to talk
about the physical attributes that you
can train to get better at any sport all
right are you qualified talk about this
this is a good I got you guys with me
absolutely we got your back this is good
no you know I think uh first thing first
I think um because people going listen
to this episode I made this mistake uh
when I did when I was a wrestler did
Jiu-Jitsu or Judo is I would look at
physical attributes and I put them above
learning the skill of technique uh
that's always at the top so I just want
to say that right like especially if you
are if you're you know getting started
or you're a teenage athlete or college
athlete um you practicing the sport is
always going to be one of the best ways
to get better at your sport uh but there
are physical attributes you could train
outside of training for your sport that
contribute tend to contribute to pretty
much any athletic Endeavor now you
didn't put these in any specific order
because I'm looking at it going like I
probably would place number three number
one sure right yeah so if we can I think
we should try and or cuz here's a like
like I wish I understood this um I did
understand that playing my sport would
get me better at my Sport and so I
that's what I did mostly but I put
little to no emphasis around training
and I think that in one where I grew up
small town there wasn't like an athletic
trainer that had any sort of serious
background or knowledge like the coach I
remember like the the exercises and
stuff that he had us doing inside the
weight room were like terrible they were
not exercises that were going to
translate into body focus they were like
calf exercises D like cuz we were
basketball players so back then back
then it was like strength shoe you know
era and so it was like just lots of calf
raises so if you want to jump higher and
run faster calf raises like that was the
stuff that we were doing calf raises and
leg press and like BS stuff like that it
wasn't until I was in my IID say early
20s there was like 22 long long done
playing sports like at least like with a
like a team or whatever I still played
like wreck ball and uh I had actually
kind of Taken a break from playing a lot
of basketball and was now on my like
bodybuilder type of kick I was building
to to to look good like build muscle and
I in fact I used to say like all show no
go but yet I come out to play basketball
one day and I hadn't played in a long
time and I throw the ball down better
than I had ever had it in my life and I
remember like afterward Landing going
like oh my God like I haven't played
basketball in like a year where did that
come from well it came from all the
squatting yeah all the squatting that I
was doing that I had done previously had
I known that I would have been a lot
further it's really taken the um
strength Community a long time to
establish um that thought because there
was still a lot of like
musclebound um Theory out there if you
were to weight train it was going to
make you slower it's going to restrict
movement it was uh going to do all these
things that were actually limiting with
your sport and so for programs to
actually adopt real solid strength
training and build that foundation with
their athletes it's actually like only
fairly recently where um coaches are
incorporating that making that a big
priority I think what also perpetuated
that Justin correct me if you think
otherwise is that we always tend to do
the extreme of everything too so it's
like you would think strength training
you don't think like adding a few pounds
of muscle or just focusing you think of
like gaining 10 20 pounds of muscle and
so if you take an athlete who's been
like me was playing basketball most his
life and all a sudden you slap on you
know 30 lounds of muscle and you're just
focused on building muscle like okay it
might hinder my game but there's a a
much more methodical approach to
building strength and muscle to that
athletic frame that could actually
enhance my game the other thing too is
in the past people would look at
bodybuilders and they would judge the
bodybuilders right on their athletic
performance so they'd say oh look
there's that 240lb bodybuilder let's
watch him play basketball and maybe the
guy never played basketball he never
practiced as a kid it's not a sport he
enjoys so they'd watch him play and
they'd be like oh it's he's big and
muscle bound he's not fast well the guy
never plays basketball yeah and they're
doing half reps in the gym as well like
their training is completely different
right right now something also to
consider here is whenever you're
training outside of your sport you
always have to balance out your training
V volume meaning if you're practice and
let's say you're going five days a week
to practice and you're like you're
recovering but you know you're at the
limit like you're pushing it and you're
going hard don't think that it's a good
idea then to add three additional days
of strength training based off of this
episode because all you're going to do
is compromise your body's ability to
recover and you'll reduce your
performance there's always a balance of
volume of training so this what we're
about to talk about has to improve your
ability to practice not take away from
your ability to practice and you have to
balance those you can't do everything
all at once because the body doesn't
doesn't you know react that way speaking
of that not to get off subject but you
just reminded me of something that I
asked a long time ago did you guys ever
watched the documentary on on the Balco
trainer yes did you guys end up watching
that that was the one of the most
impressive things about that documentary
for me was the the way he scheduled and
trained the volume like the how
scientific he was about the approach of
recovery and volume and like putting
that like I know like obviously uh you
know his name got drug through the mud
because of the scandal with Barry Bonds
and all the stuff with the steroids and
everything like that and I'm sure a lot
of people just immediately discredit him
but as a trainer looking at his
programming and the the scientific
approach I put more on the programming
the steroids so okay so my buddies and I
got into this big old controversal oh
yeah they're like all all drugs they
weren't impressed at all and I'm like
you guys have no idea like you guys see
what he was tracking and what he was
paying attention to that detail was
incredible and like he was going to
improve those athletes no matter what
drugs are no drugs balancing volume for
athletes is so important because this is
what athletes tend to do okay athletes
will they'll they they're practicing
four or five days a week then they'll
hear an episode like this they'll say oh
cool Mobility strength speed power
whatever on top of everything do I'm yes
I'm going to train for all that now so
now they they'll they'll stay past
practice for an hour and a half and
they'll also work out on Saturday and
Sundays and they'll wonder why their
performance is decreasing why they feel
stiff or sore or injuries continue to
pop up so everything that we're about to
talk about has to be balanced
appropriately and your best approach is
to focus on one at a time not to throw
everything but the kitchen sink at
yourself because the body doesn't adapt
well that way so as we go through these
I think it's important we'll describe
them all and explain you know how they
contribute but as we go through them
pick the one that you think is going to
give you the most bang for your buck um
and there's going to be one here that I
know is most is probably most applicable
for most people but not for everybody
pick that one and then work on it and
and don't just add a bunch of volume if
you're already training close to your
limit if you're already training close
to your limit you have to take something
away in order to add more to get your
body uh to
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description below all right back to the
show so the first attribute and this one
is almost never considered among
athletes and that's why I put this one
at the top not because it's the most
important but because it's one that they
just people just don't tend to consider
it and that's to improve Mobility yeah
if you improve your Mobility so Mobility
is defined as your joint's ability to
express itself fully through its fullest
range of motion with control and
strength okay so not like Mobility does
not mean you're flexible flexibility is
a component Mobility Mobility means you
are not only flexible but you own the
entire range of motion so not only can
you do the splits but if you need to
jump out of the splits you could or if
somebody jumped on top of you while
you're in the splits you wouldn't hurt
yourself for example Mobility is what
will allow you to perform better on the
field or on the court because now
whatever strength you have you have now
extended its range of motion so however
far you reach or rotate or throw or
punch or whatever you've now increased
the the capacity to do so by improving
Mobility this is a very simple way
especially with older athletes a very es
a very very specific way and effective
way to improve athletic performance yeah
another way to say is like end range
strength and so it's not just um that
that main uh range of motion that you're
strongest in which a lot of athletes
they stay there they stay in that
comfortable range when whether they're
lifting weights or they're practicing
specific movements um they're they're
practicing just what they feel strong
and and capable well this is extending
that and and really broadening uh your
base in terms of if you're in a position
with your body can I uh conjure up
strength and stability and support in
order for me to move out or sustain this
position and so that's that's a huge
component to all aspects of have you
ever seen P I know you guys have but you
look at pictures of um High Lev
basketball players or tennis players
when they're changing directions and you
look at the angle of their ankle oh yeah
when they're when they're going sideways
sh I mean they're I mean fo going to rip
off I would I would roll my ankle Paul
fabis does cool videos I've shoted him
out before on the on the show many times
of that exact the shin angle yeah of
some of these I meity there's there's
there's he's got examples of like some
of these NBA players where and he's
Frozen the camera and their ankle is
flat like this and their Shin is
literally like almost parallel sna to
the floor it's in unbel Mobility they
have the flexibility to move that way
but they also have the strength to
prevent themselves they're still in
control yeah they're not hurting
themselves it reminds me of if you ever
watched uh like uh motorcycle racing and
you watch them go around a turn the guy
laying the bike sideways and the tires
are still keeping contact and they're
able to make those turns in or in order
to be able to be agile and perform if
you have greater Mobility I mean you're
going to have an advantage over your
opponent so Mobility is a very and the
great thing about Mobility is training
Mobility doesn't Hammer the body that
much this is of all the stuff we're
going to talk about Mobility is the one
that you could probably add to your
training and not over train just to
reinforce that so when I did that um uh
reunion football game and this was
something I was like you know 40 years
old already all the guys out there as
well uh and had a limited time to train
for it had like two weeks and uh of
course the other team they took a full
year but you know we're not going to
talk about that um so what do we do I'm
like conditioning that's a big
consideration because I'm going to get
tired and I'm going to be dogging it out
there but I put most of my focus into
mobility and to really you know get the
guys on board in terms of like if I'm
moving out there the biggest thing is to
be able to create and generate force and
Power in those in those different
positions but also to be protected and
stable uh so we weren't getting hurt and
it was the best thing we could have done
it just it allowed guys to move and
still like remain uh keep their
athleticism uh because they're body was
able to respond in those different
angles the the the the time that you
noticed I guess the most is when you're
not athletic is when you're in an
unfamiliar position yes and so your body
actually you know you feel weak like
honestly you get that shaky feeling
sometimes when you're doing something
you're unfamiliar with um and that's
really like what I noticed was that as
long as we were kind of training and and
rotating and moving laterally and and
reinforcing a lot of these positions um
when we went full speed out on the field
there was no problem you know even
though I wouldn't list this as the first
and the foundational you know of the
five I I do like talking about it first
because I think this is of all the ones
that we're going to talk about I think
the we we we knew the least about this
right or we we we learning still so much
more like for example we we were talking
about basketball and it wasn't that long
ago that we used to on our on our NBA
players wear high top shoes yeah and
restrict the ankle mobility in order to
try and protect the ankles the logic and
the theory back then was inuries yes you
wanted these high top shoes and you
wanted to tighten them like that to help
help brace them but there actually was
more ankle injuries than they are now
and now a lot of the guys most your and
you remember seeing this like Kobe was
one of the first shoes that were low top
shoes now almost every NBA player will
normally wear that unless he's nursing
an injury for the most part will wear
low top shoes because you want
that ankle Mobility but we didn't train
that we didn't think to like stretch
those limits so that they could handle
that and now when you look at the game
like look at these movements how much
more Dynamic these these athletes are
able to do it today versus just say 20
years ago so so how would you work on
Mobility right Mobility would be moving
through uh ranges of motion that
challenge you while staying connected to
that range of motion by creating
Contracting your muscle here's an
example this is not a Mobility what I'm
about to say is not a Mobility uh
movement but it's an example of what I'm
trying to say so the difference between
flexibility and Mobility here would be
flexibility would be I'm going down to
touch my toes and I relax and wait for
my hamstrings to stretch that's
flexibility Mobility would be a Romanian
deadlift where I'm going down with
resistance stretching my hamstrings
coming up so what I'm doing is I'm
strengthening the hamstring throughout
its full range of motion and challenging
that range of motion now I wouldn't
consider a Romanian deadlift a classic
Mobility exercise but it's just to
illustrate what I'm talking about so
9090s you know um you know stick to slow
KES uh handcuffed with rotation these
are all movements we've had we've we can
put links here that we filmed um on our
other YouTube channel but it's about
staying connected through these ranges
of motion so that you own longer and
greater ranges of motion and thus
improve your Mobility which reduces risk
of injury but also improves performance
well I'm glad you use that even though
maybe it's not a classic example of a
Mobility exercise it's still the point
you're trying to make that I think is so
important here is a lot of people hear
the word mobility and they think
flexibility MH and so then they go oh
well I do I take yoga three times a week
or I always stretch before practice or I
always stretch after practice or I'm
pretty limber I can touch my toes it's
like there's a difference between having
flexibility and then having mobility and
having Mobility is having strength and
control through those full range of
motion and that and a lot of strength
and control that's like those athletes
like it's not like they just stretch the
ankles out to where they can get to that
angle they're getting strong in those a
good example that our our other good
friend uh Cory linger remember his uh um
his um his what do he call his ramp I
should give him a shout out angled ramp
yeah angled ramp but I mean I love
seeing that that was new like that we
weren't doing that 15 years ago like we
weren't doing that with pro athletes
that and so now you have these these Co
or these trainers that are training
these pro athletes that understand that
it's not just them having this
flexibility or their ankles the ability
for the ankle to roll or move that way
but actually good control and strength
and that so we're going to train it
we're going to load it we're going to do
exposive movements off of it so it's not
just being flexible and able to touch
toes and stuff like that almost every
sport I can think of is dynamic it's not
stationary flat you know maybe
powerlifting right no other sport like
every other sport includes uh a dynamic
component this next one is about
becoming more stable so stability in
particular and I'm speaking more
specifically but this this really
relates to all the joints but let's I
want to speak more specifically to the
spine creating stability around the
spine allows my limbs and my my body to
move and exert power while my spine
which is a just there's a ton of joints
along your spine if you look at your
spine it's a bunch of bony you know uh
plates with discs in between each one of
those is a joint each one of those can
rotate flex and extend and you want to
be able to have them do that but you
want them to also be so stable so that
you don't move to an end range emotion
that injures you while you're throwing
or or or punching or kicking or running
or turning M so developing stability
means being strong and stable it means
doing exercises like counter rotation
type movements where you're not just
trying to move in a Direction but you're
actually resisting moving in a direction
and you want to have that kind of
stability that that whether I'm rotated
twists what I'm jumping I can keep my
spine in a in a position where it's
where it's strong and stable you can own
your space you can create that kind of
control I look at it as like uh creating
more torque and power uh more more Force
production so uh look at somebody who's
on roller skates uh trying to do a golf
swing versus somebody who's like super
grounded and and anchored to the ground
allowing rotation but can generate more
power and force because they have that
ability to really uh stabilize their
entire body when they need to well this
I mean this highlights the importance of
the the core I mean this this takes me
all the way back to my original days as
a trainer so my first like you know
introduction to becoming a trainer and
like learning something that I didn't
know ahead of time was like core and
like the value core and I used to have
this like whole presentation of you know
I would show people I'd have a pen and
I'd have the pen sitting in my hand like
this right and I'd be like this is most
people your core wraps around your spine
like this and most people have a very
instable weak core and so I'd show the
demonstrate the pen being able to move
all the way around it's like look how
unstable weak you are you're open for
injury like this you're not going to be
very strong like this now imagine if we
strengthen these muscles and then I
would tighten it up to where the now
this the spine is nice and stable the
amount of force that you can generate
how protected and safe you are how quick
you can move how quick you can react and
I said and this is the most important
muscle in your body besides your heart
obviously your heart without it you're
dead but the next most important muscle
in your body is these core muscles that
wrap around this spine and that's the
foundation to this if you do not have
this stable core that you can you can
hold that foundation on the spine and
then you're asking these limbs to do all
this Dynamic stuff like you're going to
lose your body will limit you you'll
lose power leak out try to take off uh
while being in sand versus uh being on
on asphalt like you're going to take off
way faster with that stable surface
versus sand which is not very stable so
core stability and stability in general
by the way the best way to train this is
isometrics isometrics are incredible at
developing stability now here's the
thing with isometrics people tend to
forget two things one nobody does them
which is stupid isometrics training by
the way I talked about how Mobility
could probably be added to your routine
Without Really compromising your
recovery isometrics isometrics will
compromise your recovery more so than
Mobility but still not a ton so
isometrics another thing you can add so
number one nobody does them which is
dumb because isometrics have tremendous
in a short period of time here's what's
beautiful about isometrics huge
carryover is that in a four-week period
of time you could dramatically improve
your stability through isometrics it
it's of all the muscle contractions this
one produces strength gains the fastest
in that particular uh Avenue so
isometrics are phenomenal here's the
mistake that a lot of people make is
they'll train an isometric in one
position don't train the other positions
so in other words a common isometric
would be like a overhead hold that's a
good isometric hold but I can also train
it where I'm holding down here halfway
or down here at the very bottom you want
to train different positions to build
stability in different positions and
this is true for the core or for the
shoulders or for the hips all these
Dynamic joints and it'll it just improve
your performance next up this one's I
think I don't think we need to make this
argument but just get stronger this is
the foundation in my op I this is like
if you if anybody gets stronger they're
going to be better just across the board
it contributes to every physical uh any
physical Pursuit the only and I and I'll
say this and and I I'm saying this
carefully because I don't want to send
the wrong message but the only time
getting stronger would be a problem is
if you got so much stronger that you no
longer were used to your own body and
the reason why I'm saying that is I've
seen kids this is not common as you get
older but I've seen kids play a sport in
the summer gain tons of strength black
to playing the sport all of a sudden
can't throw the same accuracy camp that
was my point I was bringing up to Justin
earlier is like I think the reason why
there's that I think that's been
perpetuated for so many years is because
we tend to go with the extremes somebody
hears that oh getting stronger is so
they take the whole off season to pack
on 30 pound they didn't maintain the
actual mechanics the skills they didn't
they weren't disciplined with the
practice of that particular movement for
the sport on top of training so it's
like they just dismissed that and just
went all in on building uh mass and
strength I mean it's very it's very much
so the opposite of bodybuilding we do
not care about size like you don't want
you like in fact I just want to get
stronger if I can keep the scale the
same or barely go up that would be the
best yes if I can get an athlete to get
stronger in the gym lifting more weight
and we don't really go up on the scale
or very minimally we go up on the scale
that's a huge win I'm not looking for 20
lbs added to the scale over a summer
break like then they're they're they're
most likely not going to be moving the
same you know a classic example this in
in my sport to watch is the NBA which is
watching the growth of Stephen Curry
over the last 14 years of his career
like to the average eye he probably
looks very similar to what he looked
like say 10 years ago but I mean I've
been watching him play like he's just
barely put on a little bit of muscle and
the difference of how he can play the
game today versus what he was like he
used to be known as this player that
everybody the whole the they would
scheme against him because he couldn't
guard anyone because he was physically
weak yes he could shoot the lights out
yes he could hand the ball but
defensively anybody body could bully
ball him where you can't do that to him
anymore and that's because he's gotten
stronger over all these years but he
didn't put on this crazy amount of size
where the next year everybody went like
oh my God he put on all this weight all
his size strength to weight ratio M
matters a lot there are some sports
where where weight matters as well
football being an example right if
you're hitting someone and there's more
kinetic energy because you're heavier
it's better but if your strength to
weight ratio gets really thrown off now
you're just a weight on the field you're
just a blob you can't move so you still
need to consider strength to weight
ratio what does that mean okay so if you
gained you know 30 lbs of muscle um
you're going to want to at least be
third as strong as you are now but in
relation to the 30 pounds in terms of
the ratio meaning go it needs to match
or better you have a better strength or
weight ratio is what you're looking for
otherwise it'll slow you down but
strength ultimately at the end
especially in the beginning by the way
especially for younger athletes this is
the this is the foundation like if you
take a young athlete a high school
athlete and you just make them stronger
they'll get get better if you're an
adult athlete and you do no strength
training whatsoever and you play on the
weekends and you add one day a week of
squats or deadlifts or overhead presses
you watch your performance they're more
resilient to shearing forces they have
more longevity uh in their gameplay
there's just so many more benefits to
getting stronger for these younger
athletes that I think a lot of coaches
like dismiss some of these like uh huge
facts it's like we need we need more uh
emphasis on strength training in order
to build better athletes I mean you can
simultaneously work on their skills
there's a way to do that um they just
have to be a little bit more educated
with their programming I you I think
it's important to kind of illustrate
what you just said because I think this
is so important so for example if you
had a 150 lb kid who could squat 300 lb
if they got up to 200 lb they' better be
doing north of 400 lb squat for for it
to make even close to sense because even
if it was just 400 pounds and it's
exactly the same ratio and you just got
heavier you're not going to be a better
athlete you're going to that you're
going to have to imp improved your
strength to rate strength to weight
ratio especially if you went up in
weight like that you can control that
too Nutrition a lot of the the the
massive gains like you can taper that a
bit and still receive a lot of strength
gains but not gain so much mass yeah the
best exercises for this are your
conventional deadlift squat overhead
press bench press row your split stance
exercises like your lunges your
Bulgarian split stance squats hip
thrusts in some cases will have some
good uh some good carryover just your
conventional strength training exercises
barbell and dumbbell will give you this
this the strength that you're looking
for I I love things like bulgarians for
like your athletes just you know one one
of the things too you talk about
Mobility is the ability to to flex and
extend the hips is so important you're
so you're training that mobility in
there you're training the strength there
stability involved yeah there's
stability that's involved in there like
like which is why people like who is it
Mike Bole who's the one always talks
about never doing bilateral yeah all
unilateral work that's why you I think
that's why he makes such a good case for
training that way as an athlete because
you're getting you're hitting three of
those components that we always talk we
talk about right now next up is to get
more powerful all right what's the
difference between power and strength
strength is your ability to lift
something heavy power is your ability to
lift things quickly y to contract your
muscles
fast explosivity right so this is the
difference between an Olympic lifter and
a power lifter a power lifter's got a
lot of strength not as much power a an
Olympic lifter's got lots of power in
fact I've have you guys ever so have you
ever ever seen olyp the name because the
name is powerlifter so it's like it's it
should be strength lifter you know no it
should be like cuz when you think
powerlifter and you think that's like
that would be the default answer to like
who generates the max strength lifter or
something should be rebranded now power
is the way strength uh looks on in a
sport like power is at the end of the
day what matters now you can't have a
lot of power if you don't have a lot of
strength so some somebody listening
who's like I'm just going to train for
power you want to have a foundation and
stability too and stability otherwise
you're not going to be able to move
quickly at all I me the way we explain
always power is the greatest expression
of all the others yeah right it's like
all the others come first and then then
power is the greatest expression all
that otherwise you if you are training
power and you have poor stability you
have poor strength you're not going to
get you're not going to generate very
much power now the difference in
training for strength and power
obviously with power you're lifting
things quickly but fatigue should play Z
role in power training whereas in
strength training fatigue plays somewhat
of a role like if I'm bench pressing for
six reps that six thre is going to be
pretty hard I'm going to feel like maybe
I could do seven or eight and I'll stop
at six but there's some fatigue there
with power training each time I do a
jump box each time I do a Sprint or a
clean I should feel fully fresh and
rested with every with yeah I I need to
be able to do it as hard and fast as
possible each time not do it and and
have fatigue uh step in otherwise it
turns into stamina or at your at the
best strength training and not power
training so yeah it's more beneficial to
structure um Power exercises with less
reps obviously and this is one of those
things you can be very hyperfocused it's
it's it requires a lot more moving Parts
all to work simultaneously uh
instantaneously and so uh as opposed to
to strength where you can kind of
gradually bring everything uh together
to to pull the the movement off this is
explosively immediate and so it it
requires just a lot of output which you
need to recover from maybe one of my
biggest pet peeves as a trainer um I
think that power exercises have been
bastardized the most by trainers 100% uh
you never see any it's always a key
indicator for me if I've got myself a
really good experienc knowledgeable
trainer in my gym or in the gym that I'm
at uh observing someone training a a kid
or an athlete uh in power and doing it
correctly rarely ever do you ever see it
you see it done in circuits all the time
you see it done to fatigue all the time
you see it with lots of repetitions five
6 10 15 repetitions doing these
explosive type movements steps it's
exhausting this is where it's gotten uh
bastardized is because uh certain
coaches out there realize that they
could exhaust their athletes really
quickly by combining power movements
with fatigue and conditioning and it
becomes something else it becomes
something else but but again back to my
point of like what power is is the
greatest expression of all these other
things and so if that's the point of
that then you would want to completely
gather all that before you would Express
all that and so this idea of doing it to
fatigue is so ridiculous because
stability goes out Mobility starts to go
out strength starts to go out because of
fatigue starts to set in in fact I'll
add this one of the biggest mistakes
with people with power training is that
they'll do a workout and then do power
exercises at the end no your power
training if you're going to do a full
workout of other stuff is at the
beginning yeah when you're fresh not at
the end do not train power at the end of
your strength training workout when
you're tired now I'm going to go do some
you know box jumps no no start that way
then you can move on to strength or
Mobility or whatever but you don't want
to do this under fatigue otherwise
you're not training the ability to
contract quickly you're just training
the ability to contract repeatedly over
time which is stamina nothing wrong with
that but if we're trying to develop
power that's not the way to do it lastly
is agility or speed now agility really
is about being able to be fast and
stable and strong um and have power but
also be comfortable applying it through
your skill or technique this is when you
have put everything together and now
you're on the field and you move quick
or slow you speed up you slow down you
rotate and it all feels like it's on a
dime and that's uh speed training maybe
the the greatest equalizer in all sports
wouldn't you say oh speed kills right so
speed is speed makes up for the lack of
everything else I feel like you canot be
the strongest guy Rises to the top it's
always the fast you may not be the most
powerful you may not be the most
athletic you may not be the most skilled
but boy if you have lightning speed um
you just you se you separate yourself I
mean Tyreek is an example of this right
like that's somebody who plays for the
Dolphins used to play for the Chiefs
like seeing him play at that speed you
and I don't know s you probably don't
know this I don't know if you know this
Justin that they they're right now
they're talking about changing this rule
in the NFL about allowing him to be in
motion and this rule is is on the table
because of him because they put him in
motion the fastest guy in the NL so he
so they put him in motion which has
always been a part of football you know
you motion the quarterback drops does a
Stomp and then sends a wide receiver to
the other side and it's a strategy for
the quarterback to see are they in a
zone or manto man because they'll see if
the guy moves across and but what they
found is like they hacked into this with
Tyreek is that he's so fast it's already
so hard to defend him then if you give
him a little bit of a a head start and
then they hike the ball as he's getting
ready to go back into position so he's
already in half speed already when they
hike so then he's in full speed almost
instantaneously and he just blows by
everybody and it's like it's becoming
he's become so dominant because of that
that they like they're up they're trying
to decide like is this going to be like
a rule that we have to put in place that
they have to like get stationary again
before you can hike the ball because of
how fast how much of a different speed
can make wow well look if you want ideas
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