Mastering the Art of Athletic Excellence with C-Monster

Ever feel like you're stuck in the minor leagues of your sport, no matter how much you sweat it out in practice? Well, buckle up, athlete warriors, because today's episode is your ticket to the majors! Join me, c-monster, as I lay down the law of the athletic land with a no-holds-barred breakdown of the rule of thirds—your blueprint to balance play, practice, and athleticism. We're shredding the misconception that talent alone will catapult you to the top and showing you how a year-round commitment to these three pillars can elevate you from benchwarmer to MVP status.

We're also peeling back the layer of bravado that social media tends to slather on thick. Those 'beast mode' shirts and the grandiose claims of hustle? We're calling out the gap between image and reality, and showing you how true champions walk the walk. From the grit of competition to the grind of practice, and the raw power of athletic development, if you're gunning for a scholarship or dreaming of the pros, this episode is your game plan to success. So, forget about showing off for the 'gram—tune in and get ready to transform your game from flashy to formidable.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:26

What up, what up, what up? And welcome to another episode of Can Be Broken podcast. I'm your host, c-monster, and today, on C-monsters mindset, we're going to talk about the two type of rule of thirds that I want to mention, and also about what people wear and say. And do People be wearing shirts that say beast mode, grind, always working, and they're on IG and they're talking a big game and doing a lot of shit and not really actually doing anything except in their mind, believing that that's what they're doing, confused? But we'll hit that up at the end. There.

Speaker 1: 1:12

The first rule of thirds and this goes to athletes, this goes to anybody trying to get better at their skill level in any kind of sport, and it's the rule of thirds, and people usually do either half or just one, but never all three. And when you incorporate all three, you will see the difference in becoming a better athlete, and a better athlete at that skill that you're practicing for, whether it be football, basketball, baseball, softball, golf, whatever that might look like, it takes all these three in order to be the best version of yourself at that sport. Now, I'm not going to say, because you do all these three, that you're going to be great at the sport, you're going to be better than anybody else. There's a lot of other variables involved. Sometimes we just peek, we're just not that good. Sometimes we're just not better than the other person. That's it. Sometimes certain things were not meant to be.

Speaker 1: 2:29

But if you have talent, if you have some things going for you, if you have potential and you do these three things, then you should be successful. And success means overcoming adversity, overcoming whatever obstacles are in front of you and winning the day and winning the course of time in order to be better and maybe getting a scholarship, getting your education paid for at whatever level and moving forward into the professional level or whatever you might, whatever you want to do, it just depends all hard. But you have to have focus and, yeah, you have to have a lot of different variables that go into to. Not everybody can play division one, division two, three at the college level in any kind of sport. Not everybody can play at the pro level, and so the numbers get smaller. But if you do these three things and you have talent and you have potential and you have size and many different variables are going on here Then you should be successful in so many different ways, um, but let's talk about the first one, which is One third of the time you should be playing, meaning you should be seeing live Competitive at bats, shots, you know, in basketball, swings and golf, whatever that might look like.

Speaker 1: 3:59

I'll just keep it to baseball and softball right now, but in any sport that you're doing, you should be seeing live competition. You should be playing. You should have a win and loss records. You should be Competing for championships, for trophies, for bragging rights, for whatever that might look like. You should be competing, getting that in your blood and seeing other people besides your teammates In playing, whether it be in tournaments or weekends or Whatever. That is one third of the time, and when I'm talking about one third, I'm talking about, if you're looking at it, throughout the year, one third of the time. So, uh, that means four months out of the year you should be playing. When you're it's broken down throughout the year.

Speaker 1: 4:42

The other third is you should be practicing you. When I mean by practicing, it involves so many aspects. It means that you should be working on your own, on your self skills, on your fundamentals, on you On so many different aspects, from hitting to fielding, to the mental approach, to the minute, little things of hitting off the tee and and and using one hand and so many different things. But you should also be practicing with the team working on plays, working on cutoffs, working on relays, working on double plays, whatever that looks like, taking care of your arm. If your pitcher working on the little things, you should be practicing those things. And the other third is year round as well, and what people neglect the most is you should be An athlete. You should be working on your strength, agility and endurance. You should be hitting the gym. You should have a trainer. You should be doing those things that Get you stronger, get you faster, get you more explosive, keeps you healthy. Have endurance, because that is going to elevate your skill level.

Speaker 1: 5:58

The other things are skill playing. A game is a competitive and testing your skill. But the strength, agility, endurance enhances that. It brings that shit to life and people neglect it. People neglect it because it's hard, because it's not as fun, it's not as sexy and it takes time and you don't see the results right away as you would. Maybe a week of hitting with a trainer or something You're like ah, my swing is dialed in and you see the results right away. No, this is a process, a long process, and if you don't know it, go get a trainer. And if you do, then go do it. Do it year round. If you have a good trainer, if you have a processor, you know what's going on. Then you understand that there's off season, that there's peak season and that there's on season and how the training changes from volume to loading to Different aspects. That also includes Eating and sleeping correctly and fueling your body For the competitive event. So you're going to have, whether it be practice or playing, both of them year round, treating your body correctly so that can respond to stimulus. Those are the, the rule of thirds that you should be looking at and and seriously ask yourself If you are doing that, if that's what's going on in your weekly life, if, if weekly, you have those rule of thirds, if monthly you're, you're getting after it One third of the time on each one and then Even longer, six months and then to a year. If you're doing that, trust me, you will become a better athlete at whatever you're playing. Now. The other rule of thirds I Want to talk about is people get frustrated because sometimes they don't see results or They've trained so hard and they've worked so hard to hit certain peaks or certain Things in their life and their sport, whether it be swimming, like I said, different sports or whatever.

Speaker 1: 8:25

But there's a story, and I've said this before in the podcast. So there's a story about the swimmer who was going to the Olympics and she was about two weeks out and she couldn't hit her splits and she was concerned that I'm not hitting my splits, I don't know how I'm gonna do these in these Olympics. And you know she was, her confidence was going down and she was getting frustrated and the coach said it's okay, not all the time. Are you gonna feel great? He said third of the time You're gonna feel good. Another third of the time you're gonna feel bad and another third of the time you're gonna feel great. If you feel great all the time, it could be that you're not working hard enough. If you feel bad and not good all the time could mean that you're over training. So, in other words, we're not gonna feel all the time great. I don't care how hard you train or whatnot. You should be feeling okay a third of the time, great third of the time and not so good a third of the time. If you take that, then it won't affect your mental aspect of things that you're trying to get done and you won't lose Confidence and you'll keep moving forward and you'll say that's just the way I feel today. Let's keep moving forward, trust the process and let's let's keep winning the day and keep winning the third of the time.

Speaker 1: 9:55

Lastly, is what I want to talk about is that people, people talk too much. People talk too much shit. People talk about grinding and they talk about getting after it and they talk about Be smooth and All these fucking Sayings that people have, and shirts that people make up and taking pictures. If you have fucking time to take a picture At a fucking gym and do selfies and post up a fucking camera, I'm sorry You're not working hard enough. Now I'll take some pictures while I'm running and training, and video I Would rather not.

Speaker 1: 10:38

I Don't care, it doesn't matter to me. I Do it because I try to inspire others. I try to help out. That's my business. That is my business, and so I'm trying to tell people hey, look, look at this short, chubby old grommet can still get it done and he goes through his struggles and he's real and he's fucking telling you that it's hard and it's not easy, and enjoy the fucking journey, and that's where it's done and that's what it's all about. But if I didn't, if I wasn't in this business, I wouldn't fucking be doing that. Not me, I don't. I can care less what people think whether I go to the gym or not. If I wasn't in this business, I'd be doing me, be fucking hitting it.

Speaker 1: 11:30

The, the the results will will show themselves to be. I'm happy because I'm investing in myself internally, in mind, body and soul, and that's it. You keep moving fucking forward. You want to show what you're eating. You should want to show where you're at, do your thing out of your business. But if you're really grinding, if you're really getting after and you're fucking really doing what you're doing, you're not seeing shit on Instagram. That's a good thing. Very rarely do I show a lot of the things that I do as well, but I do try to show the long runs and certain things that I'm doing on the weekends, because Just get out there and fucking move is what I'm trying to tell people. Get out there, fucking move, invest in yourself, work as hard as you can, be better, as best as you can and do your shit. But people grind and you know what grind is, and I got this from Tim Grover, who was Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant and several other fucking people's trainer Said grinding, you grind and grinding, grind, basically be.

Speaker 1: 12:32

Grind like a stone, it becomes to dust, becomes nothing. Dust don't grind Sculpt. He said. Work hard with a purpose, with an intention to create the purpose of a creative thinking, to create the person you want to fucking be and the thing you want to do. Don't just grind without a purpose. Grind and sculpt with intention and with a purpose. Do it until you can't get it wrong, not until you get it right. Hey, thank you very much for listening to the Seamonster Mindset. I appreciate you guys. Thank you and remember you can't be wrong.