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Fueling Peak Performance: C-Monster Mindset
Can proper nutrition really transform your athletic performance? Discover the secrets to achieving peak performance in this invigorating episode of the Can't Be Broken podcast with me, C Monster. We break down the indispensable elements of athletic success, focusing on strength, agility, endurance, and the often-neglected aspect of nutrition. Imagine your body as a high-performance Ferrari—what kind of fuel are you putting into it? Join us as we explore how disciplined dietary choices, with the support of parents, can be a game-changer in avoiding fatigue and ensuring athletes perform at their best.
But that's just the beginning. We dive deep into the mental and physical training required to excel in any sport. Consistency in skill development, strength training, and agility drills is just the tip of the iceberg. We stress the importance of pushing through discomfort and adversity to build mental resilience, a key factor in both sports and life. Learn about the critical role of sleep, physical conditioning, and mental fortitude, enhanced through reading, visualization, and positive influences. This episode is a treasure trove of actionable insights, ensuring you're equipped to overcome challenges and achieve greatness. Your feedback is always welcome, reinforcing the mantra that a calloused mind is crucial for enduring success. Tune in and transform your athletic journey.
what up, what up, what up, and welcome to another episode of the can't be broken podcast. I am your host, c monster, and welcome to camonster's Mindset, episode 2 on Season 3. Super excited to continue to do this. Usually over the summer it gets a little hectic, with college players coming back and athletes being here and grinding and so get really, really busy, which is I hate to use that word busy, but get really blessed, um and productive with the people here, and so it kind of slowed down a little bit, which is great as well. Um, and here we are with Sea Monsters Mindset Today.
Speaker 1:I really want to talk about some of the things that just kind of go into being the best athlete, um, in any sport that you play, and the five levels or tools to be great in your sport, because some of those things don't get talked about as often as they should, because we ignore some of the things I'm going to talk about and we just focus on, like let's just talk about baseball or softball being on the field or hitting or catching or fielding, and we ignore the other aspects of what it takes to be the best and a real athlete. Actually. Let me break down first of all what an athlete is in the dictionary term or whatnot, but an athlete is somebody who is. It means strength, agility and endurance. That's it. You have to have all three to be an athlete and there's more things that go into that, but it's literally strength, movement with power or however. You have to have agility, you have to be able to move well and you have to have endurance. In any sport, even baseball, who kind of gets knocked on for not having to have too much endurance, but these kids are playing three, four games, tournaments in a single day over the weekend. I know there was a big tournament this Labor Day weekend and some of the times we're like, oh, I need to get faster. But the reality of it is you probably don't have endurance and you're tired, and when you thought you were going to get that double and try to squeeze in a double, your legs were fatigued and for many reasons that we're going to talk about right now. But let's talk about being the best athlete, the best version of you, at the highest level. Uh, so that you don't leave anything to chance. You've done it, you're doing it and if you do all these things, you can say that if you didn't get where you needed to be. At least you did everything possible to get, to try to get where you wanted to be, and if you do, then these are the reasons that got you there to try to get where you wanted to be. And if you do, then these are the reasons that got you there.
Speaker 1:So, first of all and first, most that we kind of especially younger kids and some parents obviously are the enablers or the disenablers is food. You know, I know you got to be a kid. I know there's stuff to eat that tastes good and it's quick to put in your system. But you have to be conscious of what you're putting in your body as fuel for what you're doing, for whatever sport you're playing, you have to look at food as the fuel source, and so if you're putting in shit, your output is going to be shit.
Speaker 1:I always talk about food as a vehicle, let's say, and a vehicle let's talk about Ferrari. A Ferrari, if you do not put the right gasoline in, or you do not change the tires or take care of it, it's not going to handle and run like a Ferrari. It's not. It's not going to take the corners at a certain speed that you want it to. It might not even run because you're putting in the wrong gas or if you let it run out of gas, it won't go anywhere. I don't care how much this car costs and how badass it is you do not put fuel in it, it will not move, and so you, as a player, need to understand that on game days or the night before, you need to fuel properly. You need to eat properly, things that are going to digest well, things that are going to give you long-lasting energy, some carbs, some protein, good, healthy meals, digestible meals, things that don't sit heavy.
Speaker 1:I've created a plan for student athletes, from high school to college level, of what you should be eating game days, how things should be looking, and, trust me, everything is different depending on what sport you're playing. If you're an endurance runner or you're in cross country or you're a marathoner, it's going to be different than a baseball player and vice versa. You have to look at your activity level and say how active am I, what do I have coming up, how long am I going to be out there and how should I fuel myself and how often? Because if you're not thinking that way you, then that may be a part of why you're not getting the best out of yourself, why we're not hitting a certain way, why we're not seeing certain pitches, why our attitude sucks, why we didn't reach this double in the gap. How can we miss this ball where I dove to the left and whatnot and a lot of times we think of it as a physical thing to the left and whatnot and a lot of times we think of it as a physical thing, but it's more of what did I do to feel my body, to respond the best way that I can to be at the best optimal level for that athlete to move that day.
Speaker 1:And so food is super important and it's not about liking it. You know kids will be like I don't want that, I don't like that. That's when the parent has to step in and says well, sometimes you have to do the things you don't want to do in order to get where you want to be. Sometimes it's not about liking or not. It's about staying disciplined and doing what you need to do in order to be where you want to be or get where you want to be. It's just that simple. Are you disciplined or are you not? And that goes for the whole shebam bam, that goes for the parents. That are the enablers, because kids can't buy certain things, and if you can afford it, the kid, then make better decisions. There's always ways to figure it out and be better. I'm not talking about every day, right, but I'm talking about 80% of the week and about 90% of that day that you're playing should be better, should be way better.
Speaker 1:Two, recovery sleep. Did you sleep well? Did you get eight hours or more, or did you only get four because you were on TikTok the night before? Or being a student athlete is super hard that you have to focus on school and tests and papers due, and that's understandable. But maybe we can do something to manage our time better because sleep is so important. Recovery is the most important part of this whole puzzle, or one of the most important parts of this puzzle, because that's where growth is made, that's where progression is made, that's where muscles recover, they grow, they get better, things happen, and so if we're not getting that, we're not allowing our bodies to recover at its optimal performance so that we can be better. And that goes with fuel. Do we eat right all day that now I'm recovering and it's helping my body recover, and whatnot.
Speaker 1:Three, are you hitting the gym, do you have a trainer or somewhere you go or a strength and conditioning coach where you're doing strength, agility and endurance specifically and optimally for your sport Fundament, fundamentally working on certain things that are going to get you better in that sport. It does no good to do plyometric movements that are not specifically for that sport. Now, don't get me wrong. Being an athlete is, overall, doing all those things, but there are certain movements, certain things that are different from every sport that can be done better and more explosively and benefit better certain athletes and you can combine certain things that don't understand. Also, they'll see an athlete and a trainer will be there monitoring them and showing them the proper position of how to get into whatever a squat or RDL or whatnot. But sometimes they're out of form and people will be like, look, he should be getting back in form and you're right and you're wrong. Form counts because we want to activate the certain muscles, but sometimes it's okay to be out of form, it's okay to let them go because, also, when we do certain things and certain movements on the field, we're not that proper. We should be out of form. When you go move a couch, you're not trying to get in the best squatting position. You're trying to pick up the fucking couch with the big muscles, and it's okay, so that our body can recognize out of form, and then we won't get injured when we are out of form. So let's go back to strength, agility and endurance. Anyways, make sure that you're hitting the gym, make sure that you're getting stronger, you're being more agile and that you have endurance. All those things play an important role in becoming a better athlete physically.
Speaker 1:Next is train your skill. What skill? What sport are you playing? Is it baseball, softball? Then you're hitting fielding, if you're a catcher, catching. If you're a pitcher, you have a pitching coach. What are you doing to be better at that and how consistently are you doing that? Same thing with strength and agility. How consistently are you doing that? And I would say that probably, out of all these, the things that you put in order, that people just kind of neglect, is going to be food, strength, agility and endurance.
Speaker 1:Sleep people get some sleep, but if you drop one or if you don't think about it, people will miss strength and agility. And why? Because it's hard, and when things are hard you don't stay disciplined. People tend to fucking bow down and go. Oh, I don't want to do that. It's going to hurt me. I'm going to feel nauseous. I'm going to do this. Oh my God I'm fatigued. Oh my God I'm sore the next day. Oh my God, it's so hard. Oh my God, my abs hurt. Oh, my core hurts.
Speaker 1:Yes, through adversity comes, but if you quit or you don't do it, you're not going to get better. Train your specific skill consistently and hard and be the best at it, not till you get it wrong, but till you can't get it wrong at all. I don't know how that quote goes, but do it until you fucking becomes natural like breathing. That's how much you should fucking do it. Where you're playing catch, you're going to be doing three other things and fucking still throw a ball and hit him in the chest. Where you're hitting and you can be talking to a reporter. Do it so freaking often that you're obsessed with it.
Speaker 1:And lastly, one of the things that also gets overlooked and that nobody does is your mindset. They say baseball is 90% mental and I would say that everything you do is 100% mental. Your attitude, how you approach the game any game or your sport, is most important If you're not in the right mindset. When it gets hard, you will quit. When you face adversity, you will succumb.
Speaker 1:Invest in your mind. Invest in the approach to the game or to your sport, invest in learning and growing and learning the skill of overcoming. So your mind is a muscle also and you can callous it just like your hands when you're grabbing weights or a baseball bat or something. It Just like your hands when you're grabbing weights or a baseball bat or something, they get calloused from gripping and swinging and hitting. And if you do that with your mind, if you invest in visualization, in adaptation, in reading a book and looking at YouTubes that are positive and hanging around people that you're going to learn from, it's going to create a calloused mind, which is a strong mind, which is a mind that won't fucking quit. You have to invest in that. That is most important. The other stuff are all physical stuff, stuff you're putting in your body. But your mind is what takes you further, it's what keeps you going, it's what tells you to not fucking stop. Pick up a book, go to the library. Forget your fucking phone. Go to the library, pick up a fucking material book and start learning something of how to overcome adversity. Self-invest and it'll change your life, trust me.
Speaker 1:Anyways, those were the five things I hope you guys took a little bit out of this sea monsters mindset. We got to eat better, we got to sleep better, we got to hit the gym. We have to train specifically for a skill and you have to invest in your mind. Hopefully, you guys took something out, and thanks for listening. I want to also say thank you for everybody who's listening, giving me feedback, whether it be through a text or a DM or just when I see you. I've gotten really, really great feedback on just a couple of the people that I've interviewed or had on the show or the sea monster mindset. Some people say fuck, yeah, you know it's cool, it motivates me. Some people say you curse too much. Cool, I'm not for everybody either. That's cool. Either way, thank you for the feedback, thanks for your support, and remember you can't be broken.
