+8 million to what adarq said.
thnx.
most often, people overlook the most simple yet important components. everyone wants to workout hard, do cool exercises, make progress etc, but if the mental game isn't improving year after year, and the attention to such small but incredibly significant details continue to be overlooked: it's a problem.
honestly if I were scoob, i'd have these things written down on a piece of paper so that when i'm about to look at my videos or post something, I remember not to continuously fall into the SAME mental traps. In addition, these traps always seem to hit after considerable progress is made. Then, after detraining periods/long breaks, overanalysis seems to skyrocket and get worse. This usually results in major shifts into completely different styles of training etc, instead of continuing what was effective - or not detraining/not losing consistency in the first place. At this point it's a cycle, needs concerted effort to be broken. FWIW, detraining/becoming inconsistent in the face of injury is another matter, that's "fine", but that's not always the reason for scoob's detraining periods. I get the life/work stress, but, if life/work stress is increasing, then training should be simplified & enter maintenance mode, not be abandoned. Not everything has to be "balls to the wall", simple maintenance phases could be ~2x/wk lift+jump. Beyond that, sleep always seems to be an issue etc. Just so many important components that seem to be neglected. Depth jumps, squatting, ME jumps, cool exercises are much less effective if there isn't a consistent effort to make the "entire system" as efficient & effective as possible: diet/hydration, sleep, rest, training, mental game, etc etc.
not sure if it's sinking in.
Also as per the previous post, one has to re-evaluate the power of video clips, if they aren't helping (at a certain point in time). It makes sense to experiment with not bringing the camera, freeing ones self from the "habit" of simply documenting the journey, and just going out there and getting after it. I guess the way I see it is, scoob wants to capture "that exact moment", because who knows if that moment will come again. I understand it. But, the way I personally operate is, it's not about that 1 moment, it's about repeating that moment over and over. That one moment is the first of thousands of moments. I could be way off, but that's the vibe I get. Lots of people are guilty of it, it's not unique to him that's for sure. I've been guilty of it. Many people on here have been guilty of it. Just the mental shift from, "I just want to land a dunk" to "fuck it I want to land thousands of dunks" is similar to "I just want sub5" vs "I want to run sub5's every week". Beyond that,
we MUST NOT look at ourselves as weak. Want to become weak? Picture yourself as being weak. It's really that simple. Belief systems are important. Saying you believe in yourself and truly believing in yourself are very different. Negative thoughts must be expunged. Sure they will try and overwhelm us, but there needs to be an effort to erase them, defeat them, overcome them, etc. There's lots of different paths to explore in our brains, just not sure if scoob is really sitting back and absorbing the whole picture. I know for a fact scoob wants to dunk on a 10' rim, it's his dream. BUT, in the same sense, when you fail to address critical components, it's also telling everyone that, superficially you may want X, but you may actually be preventing yourself from achieving X because of the lack of attention to detail. Most people are going to neglect most of the important details, but the goal should be to slowly address all of them until it's just one pure effort towards the goal, with nothing left unaddressed, unstoppable momentum.
peace!
