GAME MODEL + CULTURE + TRAINING + CREATING SPACE + GETTING TO SLEEP FAST

GAME MODEL - MLADEN JOVANOVIC

- Reduces player uncertainty when they play thus providing more time for creativity

CULTURE

- As a team sit you and your players down and allow everyone to be vulnerable because once everyone does that then you can create an environment that becomes a culture of acceptance

- Top teams and individuals thrive outside of their comfort zones

- Having comfort in uncertainty is 1 method of managing stress

TRAINING

– Once you have reached a point of diminishing returns with traditional loading (volume + intensity) then your only true means to continue adaptation is through variation (repetition without repetition)

MATT COOPER

– Too much max effort gym work can create governs/limiters on your brain and can rewire how you contract muscle

CREATING SPACE (RANDY SHERMAN)

– In Basketball a player at the top of the key passes to another player at the top of the key who than cuts diagonally through to the corner to compress space on 1 side of the floor

- This opens up space for the player with the ball to drive down the opposite side of the key

- Alternatively you can have 3 players at the top and the 2 passing players do a double diagonal cut to the corner leaving even more space for the ball player to drive into

- For footy you ideally want forward players leading/compressing the thin side leaving ample space to lead into and to be able to kick effectively, to the fat side

GET TO SLEEP IN 2 MINUTES - MICHAEL GROTHAUS

– Designed for soldiers to be able to sleep under any conditions

- Worked for 96% of those who tried it for 6 weeks but nothing will happen until week 2

- Sit on the edge of your bed in the dark

- Tighten up your facial muscles then slowly let them loosen/relax and let your tongue fall any which way in your mouth

- Once your face is fully relaxed, let gravity pull your shoulders naturally towards the ground and let your arms dangle 1 side at a time

- While doing all of this breath in and out letting your chest relax more and more with each breathe and let gravity relax your thighs/lower legs

- Once you're totally relaxed try to clear your mind for 10secs

- If something pops up let it pass and keep your body loose/limp and after a few seconds your mind should be clearer

- Now picture 1 of 2 scenarios

- Scenario 1 is of you lying in a canoe in a calm lake with clear blue skies above you

- Scenario 2 is you in a velvet hammock gently swaying in a pitch black room

- If you’re not a great visualiser then chant “don’t think, don’t think, don’t think” x 10secs

- At this point you should take about 2mins to get to sleep