🏃‍♀️ How to leverage your weaknesses, why your body is a car, + more

What’s up y’all? Cici here.

Welcome back to More Her Speed, a weekly no-BS newsletter all about women in coaching. If you’re enjoying this newsletter, you’re going to LOVE the big news we have coming this month (that’s all they’ll let me say for now).

The TEAM is VERY important

One of our athletes, Kaleb Fossum, started his own podcast. Recently I was fortunate enough to appear on it as a guest.

We had an awesome conversation about a ton of different topics. We talked about the NFL Combine, this newsletter, our summer tour circuit, and more.

But when I signed off of the zoom call I reflected about one theme that held true throughout the conversation… my TEAM.

Building a team is extremely important in this industry. As coaches, we are strong at certain things and weak at others.

Your weaknesses are only weaknesses if you take no steps to address them. One thing we do here at Spellman Performance is constant self-evaluation.

Being real with yourself about where you stand is extremely important to your growth as a coach (and as a person).

We use these categories and rank ourselves 1-10. This doesn’t necessarily need to be a daily thing, but just something to check in with every week or month… whatever feels right for you.

HERE is an example of how one of our coaches ranked themself:

There are going to be gaps in your skillset, but that’s the entire point of building or joining a team. At Spellman Performance, I’m lucky to be surrounded by other coaches who are like brothers to me. We compliment each other very well.

REAL LIFE: If you get an opportunity to intern or join a coaching team, find your lane. One coach may be great at programming and data collection. Another coach may be great with relationships and communication. Where is your lane going to be? What are you bringing to the table?

Think long and hard about that, and keep it on your mind when you show up. Make yourself so useful that they have no choice but to keep you around.

The Body is a Car

I came across a great tweet from Joseph Guarascio the other day who is one of my favorite new follows on Twitter.

Joseph is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Florida Athletic University.

In my opinion everyone in the sports performance sector should be following Joseph for his educational content and relatable analogies.

Now, if we look at the body as a car, of course we want a reliable machine that gets us from point A to point B.

And obviously a car that has an engine and no brakes, or brakes with no suspension is useless.

Coach Jevaughn Pinnock, the deceleration KING, always says “You wouldn’t drive a Lamborghini if you knew it had no brakes!”

In order to run fast, you have to know how to be able to slow down, and in order to change direction, you need to be able to know what to do with those forces to redirect them where you need to go.

You have to be able to start (accel), stop (decel), control the motion, and finish the play (COD). And all of that takes a skilled driver behind the wheel (agility).

Quote of the week

“Those Who Are Good at Making Excuses Are Seldom Good at Anything Else”

-Benjamin Franklin

Make money this week, not excuses.

Appreciate y’all,

Cici