Building a Team
There's nothing else as important as trust in a team.
As a kid I never played any team sports, I was into gymnastics.
The earliest memories I have from being part of a team is during PE in school and we had to pick teams.
The teacher would point out two kids of the class and they could pick a team member alternating until the group was divided into two. We all been there and no one wants to be that kid that is last to get pushed into the group just because there is nobody else left.
Luckily I was never that kid, but I always felt bad for them to get picked last. I would have hated it, the fact that they just don’t believe in you being a good addition to the team is what makes it worse.
My confidence would drop, even if it would be something I might be good at.
So keeping that in mind whenever I would be the person to pick the teams, although I would love to win- as I’m super competitive. The first person I would pick was one of the kids, who most of the time - would be last in. Why?
Think about it, you gonna end up with one of the weaker persons of the group anyway. So in my head it made sense to pick the weakest first so they feel like they matter and if someone believes they matter they will give 100% effort.
If your weakest person on the team gives it there best then that will lift the whole team!
Did we win every time? Probably not, but that’s not what really matters. What matters is that every one in the team felt like they were important.
The year 2016 was the first time I was part of a professional team. The competition was called “GRID league”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pro_Grid_League if you want to look into it, as you probably never heard of it as it was only up and running for three years.
I got picked by the "Phoenix Rise” who ended up winning that year for the first time.
Here is why I believe our team won the title.
We Spend Time Together
We lived in the same hotel for 8 weeks, we literally were 24/7 together. If we were not training we would hang out. The town Provo in Utah were we lived wasn’t much to do so we would find ways to keep ourself entertained. The girls would rehearse dances from MTV video clips and convince one of the guys to play along and learn the dance moves. We spend weeks on getting the steps right and the best part was to see Danny ( the biggest guy on the team) do the same moves.
In the evenings we would all go for dinner and after we would hang out and play games. The best game was to read out loud your DM’s or when we would challenge one of the team members to do something stupid like eating a teaspoon of cinnamon or snorting chili peppers for a few bucks.
Point being, we had fun together and didn’t take things to serious when we were not training. Spending time together creates bonds and the best relations are made in my opinion when you are laughing and having fun!
We Hold Each Other Accountable
Showing up for training twice a day wasn’t the problem, everyone loved to workout. We would keep each other accountable on doing the extra’s the coach gave us that we didn’t like to do. The boring stuff. Most of the time there was someone who had the same weaknesses so than we would team up in smaller groups and help each other out.
When someone wasn’t preforming well in training we would call them out. This brought some tension between certain teammates but the coach always made sure that it would be resolved before we left the gym. It’s important for the team that you can tell them straight what’s the problem is without them getting upset.
We Were Transparent With Each Other
Knowing your strength and weaknesses and paring up with a team mate that is strong where you are weak, so the team can make it through the other side as fast as possible. But sometimes it would also be stepping aside and letting someone else take your place because that was the best for the team. Even if that meant you couldn’t play that day.
Objective : Win the Championship
Strategy : End your life to win every game
Teamwork is useless if no one knows the goal or vision they are working toward.
Set those goals during each session or match.
Share them with the team.
Talk about them
Check in after each match
We Trusted Each Other
There's nothing else as important as trust in a team. Knowing that your team mate will hold on to the bar until all the work is done. A lot of the movements were synchronized so you had to trust one another to do the required work in the tempo we practiced. Or knowing when someone is close to their end and tagging in to finish the set without loosing time. Being efficient in transitions, trusting that they will catch the bar that is popped off your shoulders.
Trust allows you to be honest with each other without worrying that feelings will be hurt, allows you to be open to feedback without feeling attacked and in this case - when competing, it prevents you to not get injured.
ENGINE
40 minutes of continuous engine work. Bring your running shoes, we will do a machine waterfall format with a run at the end of each round.
GYMNASTICS
We focus on the infamous bar muscle and the Handstand push-up in gymnastics. As always, we break down the skills, and these sessions are for all levels!
HYROX
Working on your efficiency during the 8 stations: how to save energy and when to push. No running this week.
MOBILITY
We continue with thoracic & overhead mobility but are now moving it into more exercises that can replicate the positions, such as an overhead squat.
PURE STRENGTH
This week in pure strength, we have a new block of training focused on single-leg lower body strength and hip thrusts as our accessory. Wednesday, we begin our DB press progressions along with some shoulder hypertrophy.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in weightlifting, we are focused on some Tall variations of the clean and Jerk. Then, hitting a heavy clean push press and jerk complex followed by a tough EMOM
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Track Tuesday
A threshold workout today, 400m all the way up to 1.2km. Great for all runners.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Sport City Track
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Wednesday Ride
A prep ride for T100, steady power into surges!
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: BOTS, Al Qudra
Coffee Run
Supersets! A hard surge of speed super set with a longer but lower intensity block. A good run to build run IQ and do with friends.
Brief time: 05:54 am Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Start Location (Common Grounds)
Monday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Tempo
This Monday we will be holding that Tempo pace (7/10 effort) for 8 mins blocks, off 3 min recovery. The efforts are slightly longer in duration this week, but only 3x instead of 4x, so that we can maintain great quality.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Sports City
Session: Track Tuesday
Yes, we are back on the track! Today we will be running 400s up to 1200s at 3km pace. A chance to work hard with the wider endurance community and coaches.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Intervals
Todays intervals shuttle runs through the park behind InnerFight (approx 100m). This is a short and explosive session with plenty of rest (300m). Aim for 8, 10 or 12 reps.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Kite Beach
Session: The Coffee Run
This week you are running hard for 1 minute into a tempo hold of 5 mins. Following a 3 min recovery, you will repeat this sequence 5x.
Friday - Sunday
All weekend
Location: Khorfakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
This weekend we will host our first ever LRC Training Camp. There will be a combination of running and relaxing. We look forward to training with you.
Monday:
Strength:
Building to a 1 Rep Max Bench Press
Conditioning:
50 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
40 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
30 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
Tuesday:
Strength:
Barbell Tempo RDLs
Conditioning:
5 min AMRAP
6 Deadlift (120/80)
9 Box jump over
12/9 cal Row
rest 3 mins
x3
Wednesday:
Strength:
A) Handstand Push Ups
B) Weighted Pull Ups
Conditioning:
2 rounds
Park Run
12 pull-ups
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
half park run
12 Pull-ups
3 wall walks
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
Pool Run
12 pull-ups
3 wall walks
20 push press (2 x 50/30)
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Clean Complex
B) Build to a Max Power Clean
Conditioning:
5 Rounds for time
10 Power clean (60/40)
10 burpee over the bar
14 Min TC
Friday:
Strength:
Build to a heavy Thruster!
Conditioning:
8 Rounds of fun with a KB, The Ski and Sandbags!
As a kid I never played any team sports, I was into gymnastics.
The earliest memories I have from being part of a team is during PE in school and we had to pick teams.
The teacher would point out two kids of the class and they could pick a team member alternating until the group was divided into two. We all been there and no one wants to be that kid that is last to get pushed into the group just because there is nobody else left.
Luckily I was never that kid, but I always felt bad for them to get picked last. I would have hated it, the fact that they just don’t believe in you being a good addition to the team is what makes it worse.
My confidence would drop, even if it would be something I might be good at.
So keeping that in mind whenever I would be the person to pick the teams, although I would love to win- as I’m super competitive. The first person I would pick was one of the kids, who most of the time - would be last in. Why?
Think about it, you gonna end up with one of the weaker persons of the group anyway. So in my head it made sense to pick the weakest first so they feel like they matter and if someone believes they matter they will give 100% effort.
If your weakest person on the team gives it there best then that will lift the whole team!
Did we win every time? Probably not, but that’s not what really matters. What matters is that every one in the team felt like they were important.
The year 2016 was the first time I was part of a professional team. The competition was called “GRID league”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pro_Grid_League if you want to look into it, as you probably never heard of it as it was only up and running for three years.
I got picked by the "Phoenix Rise” who ended up winning that year for the first time.
Here is why I believe our team won the title.
We Spend Time Together
We lived in the same hotel for 8 weeks, we literally were 24/7 together. If we were not training we would hang out. The town Provo in Utah were we lived wasn’t much to do so we would find ways to keep ourself entertained. The girls would rehearse dances from MTV video clips and convince one of the guys to play along and learn the dance moves. We spend weeks on getting the steps right and the best part was to see Danny ( the biggest guy on the team) do the same moves.
In the evenings we would all go for dinner and after we would hang out and play games. The best game was to read out loud your DM’s or when we would challenge one of the team members to do something stupid like eating a teaspoon of cinnamon or snorting chili peppers for a few bucks.
Point being, we had fun together and didn’t take things to serious when we were not training. Spending time together creates bonds and the best relations are made in my opinion when you are laughing and having fun!
We Hold Each Other Accountable
Showing up for training twice a day wasn’t the problem, everyone loved to workout. We would keep each other accountable on doing the extra’s the coach gave us that we didn’t like to do. The boring stuff. Most of the time there was someone who had the same weaknesses so than we would team up in smaller groups and help each other out.
When someone wasn’t preforming well in training we would call them out. This brought some tension between certain teammates but the coach always made sure that it would be resolved before we left the gym. It’s important for the team that you can tell them straight what’s the problem is without them getting upset.
We Were Transparent With Each Other
Knowing your strength and weaknesses and paring up with a team mate that is strong where you are weak, so the team can make it through the other side as fast as possible. But sometimes it would also be stepping aside and letting someone else take your place because that was the best for the team. Even if that meant you couldn’t play that day.
Objective : Win the Championship
Strategy : End your life to win every game
Teamwork is useless if no one knows the goal or vision they are working toward.
Set those goals during each session or match.
Share them with the team.
Talk about them
Check in after each match
We Trusted Each Other
There's nothing else as important as trust in a team. Knowing that your team mate will hold on to the bar until all the work is done. A lot of the movements were synchronized so you had to trust one another to do the required work in the tempo we practiced. Or knowing when someone is close to their end and tagging in to finish the set without loosing time. Being efficient in transitions, trusting that they will catch the bar that is popped off your shoulders.
Trust allows you to be honest with each other without worrying that feelings will be hurt, allows you to be open to feedback without feeling attacked and in this case - when competing, it prevents you to not get injured.
Track Tuesday
A threshold workout today, 400m all the way up to 1.2km. Great for all runners.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Sport City Track
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Wednesday Ride
A prep ride for T100, steady power into surges!
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: BOTS, Al Qudra
Coffee Run
Supersets! A hard surge of speed super set with a longer but lower intensity block. A good run to build run IQ and do with friends.
Brief time: 05:54 am Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Start Location (Common Grounds)
Monday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Tempo
This Monday we will be holding that Tempo pace (7/10 effort) for 8 mins blocks, off 3 min recovery. The efforts are slightly longer in duration this week, but only 3x instead of 4x, so that we can maintain great quality.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Sports City
Session: Track Tuesday
Yes, we are back on the track! Today we will be running 400s up to 1200s at 3km pace. A chance to work hard with the wider endurance community and coaches.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Intervals
Todays intervals shuttle runs through the park behind InnerFight (approx 100m). This is a short and explosive session with plenty of rest (300m). Aim for 8, 10 or 12 reps.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Kite Beach
Session: The Coffee Run
This week you are running hard for 1 minute into a tempo hold of 5 mins. Following a 3 min recovery, you will repeat this sequence 5x.
Friday - Sunday
All weekend
Location: Khorfakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
This weekend we will host our first ever LRC Training Camp. There will be a combination of running and relaxing. We look forward to training with you.
Monday:
Strength:
Building to a 1 Rep Max Bench Press
Conditioning:
50 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
40 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
30 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
Tuesday:
Strength:
Barbell Tempo RDLs
Conditioning:
5 min AMRAP
6 Deadlift (120/80)
9 Box jump over
12/9 cal Row
rest 3 mins
x3
Wednesday:
Strength:
A) Handstand Push Ups
B) Weighted Pull Ups
Conditioning:
2 rounds
Park Run
12 pull-ups
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
half park run
12 Pull-ups
3 wall walks
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
Pool Run
12 pull-ups
3 wall walks
20 push press (2 x 50/30)
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Clean Complex
B) Build to a Max Power Clean
Conditioning:
5 Rounds for time
10 Power clean (60/40)
10 burpee over the bar
14 Min TC
Friday:
Strength:
Build to a heavy Thruster!
Conditioning:
8 Rounds of fun with a KB, The Ski and Sandbags!
ENGINE
40 minutes of continuous engine work. Bring your running shoes, we will do a machine waterfall format with a run at the end of each round.
GYMNASTICS
We focus on the infamous bar muscle and the Handstand push-up in gymnastics. As always, we break down the skills, and these sessions are for all levels!
HYROX
Working on your efficiency during the 8 stations: how to save energy and when to push. No running this week.
MOBILITY
We continue with thoracic & overhead mobility but are now moving it into more exercises that can replicate the positions, such as an overhead squat.
PURE STRENGTH
This week in pure strength, we have a new block of training focused on single-leg lower body strength and hip thrusts as our accessory. Wednesday, we begin our DB press progressions along with some shoulder hypertrophy.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in weightlifting, we are focused on some Tall variations of the clean and Jerk. Then, hitting a heavy clean push press and jerk complex followed by a tough EMOM
As a kid I never played any team sports, I was into gymnastics.
The earliest memories I have from being part of a team is during PE in school and we had to pick teams.
The teacher would point out two kids of the class and they could pick a team member alternating until the group was divided into two. We all been there and no one wants to be that kid that is last to get pushed into the group just because there is nobody else left.
Luckily I was never that kid, but I always felt bad for them to get picked last. I would have hated it, the fact that they just don’t believe in you being a good addition to the team is what makes it worse.
My confidence would drop, even if it would be something I might be good at.
So keeping that in mind whenever I would be the person to pick the teams, although I would love to win- as I’m super competitive. The first person I would pick was one of the kids, who most of the time - would be last in. Why?
Think about it, you gonna end up with one of the weaker persons of the group anyway. So in my head it made sense to pick the weakest first so they feel like they matter and if someone believes they matter they will give 100% effort.
If your weakest person on the team gives it there best then that will lift the whole team!
Did we win every time? Probably not, but that’s not what really matters. What matters is that every one in the team felt like they were important.
The year 2016 was the first time I was part of a professional team. The competition was called “GRID league”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pro_Grid_League if you want to look into it, as you probably never heard of it as it was only up and running for three years.
I got picked by the "Phoenix Rise” who ended up winning that year for the first time.
Here is why I believe our team won the title.
We Spend Time Together
We lived in the same hotel for 8 weeks, we literally were 24/7 together. If we were not training we would hang out. The town Provo in Utah were we lived wasn’t much to do so we would find ways to keep ourself entertained. The girls would rehearse dances from MTV video clips and convince one of the guys to play along and learn the dance moves. We spend weeks on getting the steps right and the best part was to see Danny ( the biggest guy on the team) do the same moves.
In the evenings we would all go for dinner and after we would hang out and play games. The best game was to read out loud your DM’s or when we would challenge one of the team members to do something stupid like eating a teaspoon of cinnamon or snorting chili peppers for a few bucks.
Point being, we had fun together and didn’t take things to serious when we were not training. Spending time together creates bonds and the best relations are made in my opinion when you are laughing and having fun!
We Hold Each Other Accountable
Showing up for training twice a day wasn’t the problem, everyone loved to workout. We would keep each other accountable on doing the extra’s the coach gave us that we didn’t like to do. The boring stuff. Most of the time there was someone who had the same weaknesses so than we would team up in smaller groups and help each other out.
When someone wasn’t preforming well in training we would call them out. This brought some tension between certain teammates but the coach always made sure that it would be resolved before we left the gym. It’s important for the team that you can tell them straight what’s the problem is without them getting upset.
We Were Transparent With Each Other
Knowing your strength and weaknesses and paring up with a team mate that is strong where you are weak, so the team can make it through the other side as fast as possible. But sometimes it would also be stepping aside and letting someone else take your place because that was the best for the team. Even if that meant you couldn’t play that day.
Objective : Win the Championship
Strategy : End your life to win every game
Teamwork is useless if no one knows the goal or vision they are working toward.
Set those goals during each session or match.
Share them with the team.
Talk about them
Check in after each match
We Trusted Each Other
There's nothing else as important as trust in a team. Knowing that your team mate will hold on to the bar until all the work is done. A lot of the movements were synchronized so you had to trust one another to do the required work in the tempo we practiced. Or knowing when someone is close to their end and tagging in to finish the set without loosing time. Being efficient in transitions, trusting that they will catch the bar that is popped off your shoulders.
Trust allows you to be honest with each other without worrying that feelings will be hurt, allows you to be open to feedback without feeling attacked and in this case - when competing, it prevents you to not get injured.
Monday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Tempo
This Monday we will be holding that Tempo pace (7/10 effort) for 8 mins blocks, off 3 min recovery. The efforts are slightly longer in duration this week, but only 3x instead of 4x, so that we can maintain great quality.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Sports City
Session: Track Tuesday
Yes, we are back on the track! Today we will be running 400s up to 1200s at 3km pace. A chance to work hard with the wider endurance community and coaches.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Intervals
Todays intervals shuttle runs through the park behind InnerFight (approx 100m). This is a short and explosive session with plenty of rest (300m). Aim for 8, 10 or 12 reps.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Kite Beach
Session: The Coffee Run
This week you are running hard for 1 minute into a tempo hold of 5 mins. Following a 3 min recovery, you will repeat this sequence 5x.
Friday - Sunday
All weekend
Location: Khorfakkan
Session: LRC Training Camp
This weekend we will host our first ever LRC Training Camp. There will be a combination of running and relaxing. We look forward to training with you.
Monday:
Strength:
Building to a 1 Rep Max Bench Press
Conditioning:
50 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
40 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
30 wall balls
12 Push up Renegade
row (2 x 50/30)
30 DU
Tuesday:
Strength:
Barbell Tempo RDLs
Conditioning:
5 min AMRAP
6 Deadlift (120/80)
9 Box jump over
12/9 cal Row
rest 3 mins
x3
Wednesday:
Strength:
A) Handstand Push Ups
B) Weighted Pull Ups
Conditioning:
2 rounds
Park Run
12 pull-ups
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
half park run
12 Pull-ups
3 wall walks
rest 3 mins
2 rounds
Pool Run
12 pull-ups
3 wall walks
20 push press (2 x 50/30)
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Clean Complex
B) Build to a Max Power Clean
Conditioning:
5 Rounds for time
10 Power clean (60/40)
10 burpee over the bar
14 Min TC
Friday:
Strength:
Build to a heavy Thruster!
Conditioning:
8 Rounds of fun with a KB, The Ski and Sandbags!
ENGINE
40 minutes of continuous engine work. Bring your running shoes, we will do a machine waterfall format with a run at the end of each round.
GYMNASTICS
We focus on the infamous bar muscle and the Handstand push-up in gymnastics. As always, we break down the skills, and these sessions are for all levels!
HYROX
Working on your efficiency during the 8 stations: how to save energy and when to push. No running this week.
MOBILITY
We continue with thoracic & overhead mobility but are now moving it into more exercises that can replicate the positions, such as an overhead squat.
PURE STRENGTH
This week in pure strength, we have a new block of training focused on single-leg lower body strength and hip thrusts as our accessory. Wednesday, we begin our DB press progressions along with some shoulder hypertrophy.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in weightlifting, we are focused on some Tall variations of the clean and Jerk. Then, hitting a heavy clean push press and jerk complex followed by a tough EMOM
Track Tuesday
A threshold workout today, 400m all the way up to 1.2km. Great for all runners.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Sport City Track
Entrance fee: https://isddubai.com/athletics-venuehire/
Wednesday Ride
A prep ride for T100, steady power into surges!
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: BOTS, Al Qudra
Coffee Run
Supersets! A hard surge of speed super set with a longer but lower intensity block. A good run to build run IQ and do with friends.
Brief time: 05:54 am Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Start Location (Common Grounds)
As a kid I never played any team sports, I was into gymnastics.
The earliest memories I have from being part of a team is during PE in school and we had to pick teams.
The teacher would point out two kids of the class and they could pick a team member alternating until the group was divided into two. We all been there and no one wants to be that kid that is last to get pushed into the group just because there is nobody else left.
Luckily I was never that kid, but I always felt bad for them to get picked last. I would have hated it, the fact that they just don’t believe in you being a good addition to the team is what makes it worse.
My confidence would drop, even if it would be something I might be good at.
So keeping that in mind whenever I would be the person to pick the teams, although I would love to win- as I’m super competitive. The first person I would pick was one of the kids, who most of the time - would be last in. Why?
Think about it, you gonna end up with one of the weaker persons of the group anyway. So in my head it made sense to pick the weakest first so they feel like they matter and if someone believes they matter they will give 100% effort.
If your weakest person on the team gives it there best then that will lift the whole team!
Did we win every time? Probably not, but that’s not what really matters. What matters is that every one in the team felt like they were important.
The year 2016 was the first time I was part of a professional team. The competition was called “GRID league”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pro_Grid_League if you want to look into it, as you probably never heard of it as it was only up and running for three years.
I got picked by the "Phoenix Rise” who ended up winning that year for the first time.
Here is why I believe our team won the title.
We Spend Time Together
We lived in the same hotel for 8 weeks, we literally were 24/7 together. If we were not training we would hang out. The town Provo in Utah were we lived wasn’t much to do so we would find ways to keep ourself entertained. The girls would rehearse dances from MTV video clips and convince one of the guys to play along and learn the dance moves. We spend weeks on getting the steps right and the best part was to see Danny ( the biggest guy on the team) do the same moves.
In the evenings we would all go for dinner and after we would hang out and play games. The best game was to read out loud your DM’s or when we would challenge one of the team members to do something stupid like eating a teaspoon of cinnamon or snorting chili peppers for a few bucks.
Point being, we had fun together and didn’t take things to serious when we were not training. Spending time together creates bonds and the best relations are made in my opinion when you are laughing and having fun!
We Hold Each Other Accountable
Showing up for training twice a day wasn’t the problem, everyone loved to workout. We would keep each other accountable on doing the extra’s the coach gave us that we didn’t like to do. The boring stuff. Most of the time there was someone who had the same weaknesses so than we would team up in smaller groups and help each other out.
When someone wasn’t preforming well in training we would call them out. This brought some tension between certain teammates but the coach always made sure that it would be resolved before we left the gym. It’s important for the team that you can tell them straight what’s the problem is without them getting upset.
We Were Transparent With Each Other
Knowing your strength and weaknesses and paring up with a team mate that is strong where you are weak, so the team can make it through the other side as fast as possible. But sometimes it would also be stepping aside and letting someone else take your place because that was the best for the team. Even if that meant you couldn’t play that day.
Objective : Win the Championship
Strategy : End your life to win every game
Teamwork is useless if no one knows the goal or vision they are working toward.
Set those goals during each session or match.
Share them with the team.
Talk about them
Check in after each match
We Trusted Each Other
There's nothing else as important as trust in a team. Knowing that your team mate will hold on to the bar until all the work is done. A lot of the movements were synchronized so you had to trust one another to do the required work in the tempo we practiced. Or knowing when someone is close to their end and tagging in to finish the set without loosing time. Being efficient in transitions, trusting that they will catch the bar that is popped off your shoulders.
Trust allows you to be honest with each other without worrying that feelings will be hurt, allows you to be open to feedback without feeling attacked and in this case - when competing, it prevents you to not get injured.
As a kid I never played any team sports, I was into gymnastics.
The earliest memories I have from being part of a team is during PE in school and we had to pick teams.
The teacher would point out two kids of the class and they could pick a team member alternating until the group was divided into two. We all been there and no one wants to be that kid that is last to get pushed into the group just because there is nobody else left.
Luckily I was never that kid, but I always felt bad for them to get picked last. I would have hated it, the fact that they just don’t believe in you being a good addition to the team is what makes it worse.
My confidence would drop, even if it would be something I might be good at.
So keeping that in mind whenever I would be the person to pick the teams, although I would love to win- as I’m super competitive. The first person I would pick was one of the kids, who most of the time - would be last in. Why?
Think about it, you gonna end up with one of the weaker persons of the group anyway. So in my head it made sense to pick the weakest first so they feel like they matter and if someone believes they matter they will give 100% effort.
If your weakest person on the team gives it there best then that will lift the whole team!
Did we win every time? Probably not, but that’s not what really matters. What matters is that every one in the team felt like they were important.
The year 2016 was the first time I was part of a professional team. The competition was called “GRID league”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pro_Grid_League if you want to look into it, as you probably never heard of it as it was only up and running for three years.
I got picked by the "Phoenix Rise” who ended up winning that year for the first time.
Here is why I believe our team won the title.
We Spend Time Together
We lived in the same hotel for 8 weeks, we literally were 24/7 together. If we were not training we would hang out. The town Provo in Utah were we lived wasn’t much to do so we would find ways to keep ourself entertained. The girls would rehearse dances from MTV video clips and convince one of the guys to play along and learn the dance moves. We spend weeks on getting the steps right and the best part was to see Danny ( the biggest guy on the team) do the same moves.
In the evenings we would all go for dinner and after we would hang out and play games. The best game was to read out loud your DM’s or when we would challenge one of the team members to do something stupid like eating a teaspoon of cinnamon or snorting chili peppers for a few bucks.
Point being, we had fun together and didn’t take things to serious when we were not training. Spending time together creates bonds and the best relations are made in my opinion when you are laughing and having fun!
We Hold Each Other Accountable
Showing up for training twice a day wasn’t the problem, everyone loved to workout. We would keep each other accountable on doing the extra’s the coach gave us that we didn’t like to do. The boring stuff. Most of the time there was someone who had the same weaknesses so than we would team up in smaller groups and help each other out.
When someone wasn’t preforming well in training we would call them out. This brought some tension between certain teammates but the coach always made sure that it would be resolved before we left the gym. It’s important for the team that you can tell them straight what’s the problem is without them getting upset.
We Were Transparent With Each Other
Knowing your strength and weaknesses and paring up with a team mate that is strong where you are weak, so the team can make it through the other side as fast as possible. But sometimes it would also be stepping aside and letting someone else take your place because that was the best for the team. Even if that meant you couldn’t play that day.
Objective : Win the Championship
Strategy : End your life to win every game
Teamwork is useless if no one knows the goal or vision they are working toward.
Set those goals during each session or match.
Share them with the team.
Talk about them
Check in after each match
We Trusted Each Other
There's nothing else as important as trust in a team. Knowing that your team mate will hold on to the bar until all the work is done. A lot of the movements were synchronized so you had to trust one another to do the required work in the tempo we practiced. Or knowing when someone is close to their end and tagging in to finish the set without loosing time. Being efficient in transitions, trusting that they will catch the bar that is popped off your shoulders.
Trust allows you to be honest with each other without worrying that feelings will be hurt, allows you to be open to feedback without feeling attacked and in this case - when competing, it prevents you to not get injured.
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