The Keys To Working Out By Yourself Effectively (Podcast Episode 35)

Foreign. Welcome to the Vision Basketball training podcast. Appreciate every single one of you guys who are listening, watching if you guys are listening Apple podcast right now. Really would appreciate if you scroll down, leave a review. Also shout out to all of you guys who had me on your, your top podcast list for Spotify. I got, I got a couple DMS from you guys who post on your story, tagging me in it. I really appreciate you guys listening. It's awesome to see, especially because, you know, I think this podcast started, I want to say, in April. Ish. And so it hasn't been a full year. And also back in April, like, it was just getting going, right? So it took a couple months really to start picking up. So it's really, really cool to see that. Shout out to all you guys who have been listening. And of course, I know a lot of you guys listening on Apple podcast too. And of course Apple is just lagging behind with their, their, their wrapped stuff for the year. 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But a lot of times there's, there's themes within that question you ask or there's there's some sort of topic that is another topic that I get frequently and that might be what has me make that podcast episode. And so again for that, you know, it's really awesome. And the other thing too is like, I'll have people who will, who will, you know, ask me, you know, give me like, kind of like video ideas. Like this past week I put out a video that was talking about Reeds. So it was a Luka Doncic video, and we basically took plays from him and I had you guys kind of predict what his read was going to be coming off of that play. And, you know, it was by far. I mean, it did really, really well. And that was actually a suggestion that I got a couple days before, and I was like, oh, that's a good idea. So I made that video, and everybody loved it. So some of that happens. So that's why I am appreciative of you guys reaching out to me with your ideas, your questions, all that sort of stuff. It's awesome. So, anyway, let's hop into today's episode. Today's episode is all about how to work out by yourself, how to train by yourself, some tips I have for that, some problems that you can sometimes have, and how to overcome those. Because a lot of you guys, especially now with COVID and all that sort of stuff, a lot of you guys are working out by yourself. And add to that the fact that it's December and winter for a lot of you guys, that adds another element of difficulty to being able to do that. Okay? So I want to make sure that we can kind of COVID how you can overcome this, how you can work out by yourself and use it to your advantage, and most importantly, how you can get the most out of what you're doing, because that's ultimately what we want to do. There's going to be a different approach if you're working out with a partner or a group or with your team, or even if you have, like, a rebounding machine, like, there's. There's. We can approach a little bit differently. But when you're working out by yourself, which is, again, what the majority of you guys are doing, certainly you know, what I was doing growing up, the majority of the time, middle school and high school, I was by myself working out. I'd have a rebounder from time to time. You know, my dad, my brother, whatever it might be. But sometimes teammates or whatever. But a lot of times it's by myself. So there's a lot of stuff that I've learned over the years and a lot of stuff that I've learned recently. And so I want to be able to share that with you guys now. So let's talk about this. One of the biggest things when it comes to training by yourself, I think, is that it's important to have a plan. Okay? It's important to have a set plan or a set system that you're going to follow for a couple different reasons. So, first of all, it's a lot easier to get out and be consistent doing something when you have something that you're building towards. Okay? You have a bigger picture that kind of motivates you and keeps you moving forward. I actually need to give a shout out to one of my guys in the perimeter score system. I think he's in elite ball handling as well. Dj. Actually, I know he's in elite ball handling because he tells me about it. Dj who sends me a DM on Instagram. Literally every time after he does the perimeter sources and workouts. Like, literally every day, I get a DM from him updating me on what he's doing, how his workout went, all that sort of stuff. And I think for him, that's helpful for him. So for a lot of you guys, just having something to follow, having some sort of accountability, a lot of times can be helpful for you. Okay, so that's just an example. But it can be even more than that. It can be something like at the beginning of the week or the beginning of the month, you plan out what your workouts are going to look like. You say, you know what? This week I'm going to do these five workouts. Monday through Friday, I'm doing these five workouts. Maybe on Saturday I'll play or I'll get some extra shots up or whatever. But you want to be able to have a set plan that you can follow so that you don't wake up one day and you're like, oh, man, what am I going to do today? Because at that point, it becomes very, very easy to find excuses to not get things done. Okay. Especially when you're by yourself, right? If you have a partner or you're with a team or you have a coach or a trainer who's going to force you to work at something, it makes things a little bit easier. But when you're by yourself, you really have to be disciplined, and you have to make sure you put yourself in the best position to get things done. So having a set plan is a big thing. And that doesn't. That can be as simple as finding a couple workouts that you like or picking a couple skills you want to work on. So, for example, if you want to get better at creating separation or your ball handling, well, at that point, you can find a couple workouts that work for you. I have a couple of workouts on my channel you can use if that's what you want to target. And maybe you have four workouts that hit those two things. Maybe you have another workout, the shooting workout. Okay, so there's five workouts right there. If you say, okay, today I'm gonna do this one, tomorrow that one, Wednesday, that one. You have a set plan of what you're gonna follow. It becomes much easier because now all you have to do is get up and go do it. Okay. So that this is really just the foundation before we even get into, like, the actual workout part of it. This is really the foundation. Okay. Planning things out, being prepared. What is gonna help you to be more disciplined and more focused and ultimately get more things done? Okay. So that's a big key right there that I think that's where everything starts off, honestly, is having some sort of plan that you can follow. I think it just makes everything a lot easier for you. Okay. And the other thing with that is that it's going to help you because you know that you're targeting those skills you need to get better at. If you just go out every day and kind of do whatever, then a lot of times it's going to be hard to know the progress you've made. If someone were to ask you, hey, what have you been working on for the past two weeks? Can you give them a definitive answer? Or can you say, oh, I was just, you know, I was just shooting around. I was just getting shots up. I was just, you know, doing a little ball handling. Like, can you give them a specific answer? You say, I was working on attack and close. I was working on my ability to create separation. I was working on my ability to catch and shoot off. A relocation or my ability to catch and shoot coming off of a pin down or whatever it might be. Can you give people an exact answer when they ask you that? Could you give. If your coach asked you, hey, what'd you work on this summer? Can you give him an exact answer of things that you've been. That you've been working on? Okay. That starts with your preparation and following some sort of plan, some sort of system that's going to help you to do that. Okay, so big key right there. Once we get past that, though, we get to the actual workouts. This is where. I think my view on this is a little bit different than maybe the. The popular view is because the. Another question that I get a lot is how, like, how can you keep your workouts interesting? Right? How can you keep your workouts full of energy? Like, there are days, you know, coach, I get up some days and I just don't feel like working out. And, you know, I don't. I don't. I don't know what to do because this or that, and. And I just. I just. I don't know. Like, I'll get questions like that all the time from guys who are Just they're. They're burnt out and they need something that's going to help them to be able to keep on going by themselves. Because it can get tired, it can get tiresome, and you can get burnt out. Working out by yourself if you approach things the wrong way. That's why I said earlier that there's a difference between working out by yourself and working out with a group or working out with a trainer. Working out with somebody who's going to rebound for you, push you, keep you accountable. It's different when you're by yourself. One thing that I think is a really easy, unique idea, and a good idea, honestly, is setting a timer for your workouts. Okay? So that might be 45 minutes, 60 minutes, 75, 90, whatever it might be. I probably wouldn't go any more than 90, but that's where you say, hey, I'm going to set this timer for 60 minutes and I have my workout for the day and I'm going to get as much of it done as I can in the 60 minutes, okay? And you have that, that set amount of time. A lot of you guys might be thinking to yourself, well, you know, coach, what if I don't finish my workout? That's actually, that's okay. Okay? Because the quality is. The quality needs to take priority over the quantity. I got a question on a. I put an Instagram poll the other day asking about video ideas, and somebody asked me, they said, hey, coach, you know, should I worry about quality or quantity? And they said, or both? Well, obviously the answer is both. Both to an extent. But quality, in my opinion, is. Is significantly more important than quantity. Because when we're in games, it's about the quality of the shots you take, the moves you make, your finishes, whatever it might be. Quality is where it becomes important because you might not get a large quantity of shots in games, right, Unless you're one of the top one or two guys. And even then, depending on how the flow of the game goes, how your offense runs, you have to be able to make the most out of the opportunities that you get. And that comes through being able to execute with quality. Okay? So that's why I think that quality is more important than quantity when it comes to your training as well. So knowing that if, if we can set our timer for 60 minutes and that 60 minutes is very, very high intensity, very, very, you know, basically putting that, that, that high quality work in, then that's going to be better than us going for two hours, probably getting more reps up. But those reps are lower quality because we, you know, mentally checked out after an hour and a half or physically we couldn't go after a certain amount of reps, whatever it might be. That's why I'm saying that the timer idea is a really good idea when it comes to that. Okay. So again, you can kind of pick a time that works for you, but it really is as simple as whatever workout you're planning on doing. Say, hey, you know What? I have 60 minutes to get this done. I have 75 minutes to get this done. I haven't. I have 90 minutes to get this done. And that is going to force you to have to keep a higher intensity because you got to go faster to get through it. You've got to go at a proper game speed. You don't really have time to be kind of messing around. You got to go get your rebounds, all that sort of thing. And it's going to give you just another factor that's going to push you and make your.