…if you aren’t working smart as well.
You will never get better if you simply are trying to outwork your opponent with your body. You need to outwork them with your body, as well as your brains.
If you are doing the wrong thing over and over while busting your butt, you will NEVER get better.
You will get worse. Considerably worse.
You will get frustrated because you aren’t improving and then there is often no recovery. No fix. You will spiral out of control. You try to work harder and harder but just end up getting worse and worse.
Sadly, I have seen it countless times with athletes. (Just one more snap turns into fifty more bad snaps and you just made your form go to the dumps)
More often than not, I have to fix an athlete that has been overworked. They had a “coach” who thought they knew what they were doing and just ended up hurting the athletes body, mind, chances & future. (Doing anything over and over and over shows no thought process and will not benefit you….cough, cough: just snapping non-stop at a camp)
The athlete should have been working smarter. Not counting the reps but making the reps count.
If you are going to just work hard, I feel sorry for you because you are going to have a very, very long road ahead of you in life.
186