Those Guns Belong to a QB?
My Denver Bronco’s are bore-ing!
Yep, Boring with a capital-B, thanks to one of the NFL’s most high-energy athletes, Tim Tebow.
Since inserting Tebow as the starting QB the Broncos have gone from one of the leagues leading passing teams to a throw-back style—ground and pound—running team. They won yesterday completing only two passes. A feat not accomplished since the early 1970’s of the NFL.
Experts can, do and will argue that the Broncos can’t continue to win like this and most certainly can’t win a championship.
The experts may be right. But then again, they may not be. Only time will tell on this one.
What I can tell you is that I see some simple profound wisdom in what Tebow and the Broncos are doing. The sort of “meat and potato” basics that we all assume we know, that we’re so beyond that we ignore them.
Why? Because they are bore-ing. I mean who wants to hear about the addition and subtraction of getting fit, losing weight, adding muscle when we can be wonderfully entertained by Kozo the Fat-Loss Clown and his Magical Mystery Fat-Loss Show.
Well, as the wholesome boy wonder is reminding us, all the glitters is not gold. Do the right thing, often enough with all your heart and there’s a brighter light from deep within each of us that sparkles through the darkest of times and the thickest layers of dirt and mud.
Maybe they can’t win the Superbowl running nearly every snap. That remains to be seen. But then the NFL is elite of the elite—the 1% of sports. And the fact is vast majority of football is the other 99% —the basics practiced ad naseam, over and over the first day you take the field.
And if you’re willing to do these same things, the basics over and over with passion, purpose and precision for years, only then will you even have a chance to compete at the 1% level.
Simply stated, in football, like fitness and life; the success and satisfaction is earned ground up, through hard work and basics. It’s the “meat-and-potato”, simple things repeated daily, with purpose and passion, that make all the difference.
We do truly want to believe otherwise because our minds like to trick us. We overlook the things we know, the parts we’ve become accustomed to seeing, and choose only the objects that glitter and glow.
That’s part of being human. It’s a trait that’s helped us survive for millions of years and now keeps many of us trapped and struggling. Here are four ways to break free from the trap.
4 Rules for Success in Football and Fitness
1. Get Back to the Basics Often
In your fitness and your life, as in football, as much as we love to admire the extraordinary, star athletes and Sportcenter highlight plays, 80% of the game is won or lost in the blocking and tackling. Same is true for you. In your career, your fitness even your relationship. It’s the seemingly little things that get you in the game or leave you on riding the pine.
2. Execute with Enthusiasm
Our rational minds make us want to believe that life is a game of X’s and O’s… it’s a formula. But over and over again we witness that there’s some else, something we can’t measure or map—and that drives us crazy—that matters. Call it the intangibles—enthusiasm, passion, purpose.
Tebow has it and it infects the team like Elway did in years past. Do you have it in your training, your diet, your life? Or is your fitness a chore, your diet a drain and your life a dull march to the end?
Get excited again and find the spark. It’s not out there, as much as you may want to believe it but it’s in you, waiting for you to confront your fears or resistance that block it. Look in for the passion, not out.
3. Know your Strengths
One thing the Broncos have found in the short Tebow era is something they’ve been missing for a long time—an identity. They may not be pretty, they may not even be exciting to watch. But for the first time in a long time they know who the hell they are. They have an identity—a Strength.
You have it. I have it. We all have strengths—those things, talents, abilities, some seeming flaws or imperfections that make us who we are. Stop pretending you’re not who you are and embrace your strength. Nothing worse than being a really amazing hippo who wishes he were a cheetah.
Embrace your stripes, spots or spout with pride.
4. Passion Beats Perfection Every Time
Notice that games of “world domination” are most often played by people who can’t manage the basics of day to day life. Rather than looking for a tricky plan or more cunning strategy for success, try getting more excited about results in your life than the process.
When you passionately perform the basics, like running the ball for 5 yards a carry, you quickly get damned excited about the results. As you likely heard me say, because I say it all the time, “the worst fitness plan executed with passion will out perform the best plan done halfheartedly every day.”
Don’t’ worry so much about getting it right, just get it done. Do it today, tomorrow, and the next day. Losing fat, gaining muscle, getting fit is not an event, it’s a lifestyle. And when you do it this way, it’ll quickly become not something you do but who you are.
The Basics To Get Back To
Tomorrow, I’ll share with you the short list of fitness fundamentals for a fabulously fit holiday season. And, yes, as you assumed your best basic #1 will be to get your eating sound and strong. And in my book there is no more sound, tried, tested and proven way to get your nutrition right than with a daily nutrition shake. And there is no second best nutrition shake to the world’s only true premium nutrition shake, Full Strength.
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| Meet The Author, Shawn | |
 | Known as "The Fitness Philosopher," for his deep, clear approach to the cutting through the fitness conundrum, Shawn is a 20+ year veteran in the field of Lifestyle Fitness and Peak Performance. Author of several best-selling book, with one of the most photographed physiques in history, Shawn, with his brother, Bill Phillips (Body for LIFE) catapulted EAS sports nutrition into the world leader and Muscle Media magazine and the documentary movie, Body of Work. He created the first computerized training system in PowerBuilding and the popular Variable Split System for Muscle Mass. Now, in his 40's, a husband and father of two young children, Shawn is passionate about helping busy, high-achieving "men in the middle" enjoy vibrant, energized, amazing, Full Strength lives! He has recently created the World’s 1st and only true premium nutrition shake for men, Full Strength — clinically proven to build muscle, burn fat and boost energy. His most recent book, Strength for LIFE is the "how to" guide to a Lifestyle of Fitness Freedom. |
Mon, November 14, 2011
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