On A Dime

Most of the time in life you can at least attempt to plan and prepare for what is coming. Not much different than a derby bout, situations typically unravel in a certain fashion or follow a certain pattern that can be taken into account and responded to. In short, you can usually approach life with a strategy and manage pretty well basing your actions around these plans. But what about the the times when things don't follow the rules? What about the surprises that you just couldn't account for? What do you do when someone flips the script on you so fast that you don't realize what has happened, let alone what your next course of action is? The truth is that these things do take place and there is never any specific plan that you can run that will handle the situation cleanly. Every now and then things just change on a dime and leave you wondering what happened. Rather than stay vague, I will tell you the root of my line of thought is in a relationship but the principle applies to every situation, especially in athletics. Injuries, discord among teammates, or a good beating in a game that you should have won are all examples of this. So how do you survive and regain your clarity of thought to make it out of whatever the situation is? First off, you get to your feet. You cannot come back if you refuse to get up. The only way to ensure that you will fail when surprised is to stay down. Wallowing and worrying about what has just transpired will not do you any good and the longer you stay down the worse off you will be. After your on your feet, control your emotions!!! This is the biggest key to all of it. There will always be an emotional response but that is seldom the best course of action as far as righting the ship goes. Rather than going with the pain or surprise that accompanies an emotional response, look to get your bearings quickly and figure out how bad of shape you are really in, no matter how bad of shape feel you are in. This is possibly the hardest thing to do but it is what separates the the amateurs from the professionals. Lastly, when you have realized that you are backed into a corner, get out of the corner by the cleanest method possible and regroup in the process. In life times are transition are the biggest areas of vulnerability but the are also the greatest opportunities to capitalize on. You always want to come out better than you went in, even if that just means lesson learned and not repeated. Hopefully this make some sense. My head is still spinning a bit but I think you'll get the gist.

Cheers,

J

5 min warm up
2x 20 squat jumps
2x 20 burpee push ups
2x 20 box jumps
100 jump ropes
2x 20 step up to overhead presses
2x 20 back flys
4x 100 meter sprints
4x 30 sec planks
5 min cool down
Stretch