If you try to get right, then you listen to my dad.

He's a beast.

And if you don't want to listen to him, okay, okay, you don't want to get successful.

If you ain't trying to dominate, man, they go listen to something else.

Welcome to the sports motivation podcast.

It's your host, Nees Showbo. All right. So today I'm going to be talking about how to balance schoolwork and training. Now, this is for these athletes who are in college, maybe even getting their master's or doctorate or undergrad. It could be for you athletes in high school. Probably not for you younger ones, but, you know, who knows? You know, I've had some athletes that I've worked with in the middle school years, man, and they'd be having a lot of homework. All right. So this is about how to balance schoolwork and training because you want to train. You obviously understand you need to train at a high level in order to dominate your sport. You understand this. The challenge is how to balance school work as well. You have a lot of assignments. And for some of you, you may even have learning disabilities or you know, you're taking a long time to do your homework. Or you might just be in a class is pretty difficult for you. You know, school is not always easy. And this is what some of us have to be reminded of.

It's, you know, sometimes learning things, it's hard.

Sometimes there will be things that we learn that don't come as easy for us, all right?

So, this is going to be very, very practical in nature, and I'm not going to be going into incredible detail on how to

do some of these things. I will give you an opportunity to learn more about how to do some of

these things a little later. But this is more from a high level, like how I want you to approach

it, how I want you to think about it, because it's very important that you use your mind to think.

A lot of times we get caught up in these environments, school being one of them, and it's very important that you use your mind to think. A lot of times we get caught up in these

environments, school being one of them, and it's like this rat race that we get in and we never

take time to actually think and give ourselves perspective about what we're actually doing this

for in the first place. All right? So let's go through this. So obviously, we know that to be

dominant, we must practice and train. We need to do this a lot,

and we need to do this very accurately, meaning we don't have all day to do it. And this is one of

those things that you start to learn as you start to get more and more locked in. Or I should say, as you, as you're a student athlete, once you become a pro, you actually,

your whole career becomes about spending time on your sport.

But when you're in school, you don't have that luxury.

And some of you are in really tough high schools and your colleges is demanding a lot of you.

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