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If you're a head coach—or ever want to be one—this 30 minute interview is a MUST watch. NOTHING is more important than getting good talent on the team and keeping that talent on the field. Bookmark this for later if you can't watch now. But if you have the time PLEASE watch!

"What's assaulting you right now in life? Write it down." James Bettcher runs mindful moments with his NFL players to max their on-field performance. Here's the full practice.

Lane Kiffin with an outside the box philosophy on culture building, the concept of environment as a strategy, and how people don't "buy-in" more than they 'belong': 🔓 The fastest way to change behavior isn’t motivation, it’s environment. Leadership is about creating the conditions where people feel safe, valued, and inspired. When the environment is right, performance doesn't need to be forced; it’s unlocked. 🌅 People don’t commit to a job, they commit to a feeling. If your environment makes them feel like they belong, they’ll want to show up. If it makes them feel managed, they’ll only show up when they have to. 🎨 The trajectory of a team is set long before the results show up. It’s shaped in the culture you tolerate, the standards you reinforce, and the environment you DESIGN every single day. The environment you create doesn’t just influence behavior, it determines identity. Once people see themselves differently, they develop different habits to align with that belief and push them toward their goals. 🎯

You check your Apple Watch in the morning. Sleep score: 62. You decide it's going to be a foggy day. And then it is. A 2014 Colorado College study suggests the score itself causes the fog. 164 people walked into a lab. Researchers hooked them up to fake EEG equipment and told them the readout would show their REM percentage from the night before. Then they fabricated a number. Half the room was told 28.7%. Half was told 16.2%. The machine wasn't measuring anything. Participants took four cognitive tests. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, where you add numbers spoken at increasing speed and hold your last sum in working memory while computing the next. And the Controlled Oral Word Association Task, where you generate as many words as you can starting with a single letter under time pressure. Both are gold-standard measures of attention and executive function used in clinical neurology. The 28.7% group outperformed the 16.2% group on both. Significantly. How rested participants actually felt that morning predicted nothing. The mechanism is mindset priming an executive resource. When you believe you slept well, you allocate cognitive effort more aggressively. You don't conserve. You don't pre-disengage. Belief about the resource changes how you spend it. Two control conditions ruled out demand characteristics. Participants weren't trying harder because they thought they should. Real measurable cognitive performance shifted with the number on the readout. The Apple Watch sleep score. The Oura ring readiness number. The morning ritual of checking either one is taxing the resource you're about to need. The performance gap from a fabricated REM percentage was larger than the gap from how rested participants actually felt. The number was louder than the night.

If you're a head coach—or ever want to be one—this 30 minute interview is a MUST watch. NOTHING is more important than getting good talent on the team and keeping that talent on the field. Bookmark this for later if you can't watch now. But if you have the time PLEASE watch!

Every college football program takes daily body weight. Almost no high school program does. It's not philosophy. It's logistics. And it’s costing them the one thing every program needs most: availability 👇

Coaches: if an athlete shows up to practice sore, sleep-deprived, and dehydrated... do you know? Most don't. Those things are invisible until they show up as something else.

The NCAA published new recommendations on performance technology, giving schools a road map around policy, data management and responsible use. The focus is on student-athlete health and well-being, collecting what is necessary and doing so transparently. MORE: ow.ly/l6EV50YEtwC

Most programs track what they do. Very few track how athletes are responding. Sleep. Soreness. Weight trends. Stress. That’s where availability is won or lost. Book Now: xascore.coach/30-day-availab…

The NCAA published new recommendations on performance technology, giving schools a road map around policy, data management and responsible use. The focus is on student-athlete health and well-being, collecting what is necessary and doing so transparently. MORE: ow.ly/l6EV50YEtwC

Alabama football director of performance, David Ballou What would be his biggest tip to young athletes trying to get to the next level? “A lot of people work hard… it’s the people that work hard & are able to stack nutrition & sleep & those things on top of it.” Listen up: