Do This In Practice and Workouts To Accelerate Your Basketball Development

One thing to understand is that every rep is your rep. If you approach every rep as your rep, that you're going to gain so much more out of that practice, out of that workout mentally than you would if you just focus on your physical reps. There was a video I posted on Instagram on my story a couple days ago and I'll post it again on YouTube here. And it was of two of the Baltimore Ravens rookies this year, Jason Oy, and it was Dalen Hayes, and they were going through just a, just a drill on like the sleds. And so they had Jason O. Was his rep up to hit the sled and Dalen Hayes was behind him. It wasn't even his rep. He was off, but he still, as Jason was lining up to go through his rep, Da1 Hayes also lined up and just went through his rep on air at the same pace that that Jason Oway went through his. So now as Jason always getting his rep in Dale and Hayes is getting another mental rep in before he actually gets his physical rep. So now just take as we talked about, now he's combining that observational vicarious learning with the actual direct hands on experience that he's getting through his own reps. Okay? So just accelerate, accelerate the process he's going to make in practice by two because he's getting double the amount of reps. And you could potentially even argue that you can raise that by more than two because again, we look at a study where the vicarious learning actually led to a greater gain of knowledge as compared to just direct experience. If you're actually focusing on getting that vicarious experience, then there's a good chance you're actually accelerating at a rate more than twice as fast. And so that was a really great example. I thought of taking every single rep as your rep. Now that doesn't mean that you physically have to go through every single rep like Dale and Hayes did right there, but just being locked in and focused on the rep that somebody else is doing is such a crucial piece to you. Being able to take advantage of, you know, our ability. And we as humans have what's called mirror neurons, which essentially allows us to see something and then be able to mirror it. And just by seeing that thing, we're actually able to physically do it at a higher level than if we had not seen it by Dalen Hayes. Watching Jason Oy go through that rep and really being focused on it, he's actually going to be better when it comes to his rep because of those mirror neurons now firing and him creating those patterns in his brain, they're going to allow him to actually physically execute that skill at a higher level just because he's locked in. The best way for you to get better at a skill is by not only doing it, but, but also by watching it. So when you can combine those two things in practice, it makes it so that you can accelerate your development of that skill way, way faster than you would by just focusing on doing it physically. And another example of this might be if you're in practice, right? And let's say that you're doing some sort of defensive drill, like a four on four defensive drill, where you have to make sure that you, you know, are getting into help, you're getting to the right position. One pass away, two pass away, three passes away. And you know, maybe you're, you're really engaged and you watch your teammate, maybe they make a mistake. And because you are now able to kind of recognize that you say, okay, they did that wrong. So that's, that's something that, you know, I'm taking note of right there. You get in a situation that's a mistake that you don't make because in your mind those mirror neurons have been firing and you've already made that mistake because like we talked about that vicarious learning, your ability to, to be empathetic, you know, they probably messed something up and they probably got scored on or your coach yelled at them and, and because you're able to feel that empathy and like, oh man, that, that sucks that he got yelled at for that, she got yelled at for that right? Now that was your rep right there. So you're going to get onto the court and you're not going to make that mistake because you've already made that mistake, right? Mentally, you've already made it because that was your rep right there. And again those mirror neurons are like, that's the science behind it. That's really how it works. So when you're engaged and locked into other people's reps, you actually accelerate the rate that you develop. That's something that I'm going to go into even further. Another episode is talking about learning and the import of not just developing physically, right physically, and getting better at your skills. Shooting, ball handling, finishing, defense, all that sort of stuff is super important. But what's even more important is just your ability to learn, your ability to adapt all these cognitive abilities that actually are what makes great basketball players. This is where you can really start to gain an advantage, is just by taking advantage of every rep that you possibly can, albeit, you know, whether that be physically, but also every single rep can be yours mentally. So that's one thing for you to consider again, you can theoretically get two times or more the amount of work in, in a workout or a practice just by being locked into other people's reps as well. And I promise you, you're going to start to see some major, major differences when it comes to how quickly you develop, how quickly you get better, if you can focus on, on doing that. I want to give you guys my free elite perimeter score workout. We're going to target a bunch of skills that you're going to need to have. You want to be an elite player on the perimeter? All you got to do to get that is click the top link in my description right below and I'll get that right to you. Sam.