LENKO - Performance and Coaching

You train 4 or 5 times a week.

You’ve got team training.

Gym sessions.

Maybe some extra speed or conditioning work.

Then you wonder why you feel flat, recovery is poor and your performance isn’t moving forward.

Sometimes your training isn’t the problem.

You’re just not eating enough to support it.

I see plenty of athletes who take their training seriously…

But treat nutrition like an afterthought.

Skipping breakfast.

Barely eating before training.

Trying to keep carbs low.

Finishing a hard session and then waiting hours before eating properly.

You don’t need a perfect meal plan.

But you DO need to fuel the work you’re asking your body to do.

Enough food.

Enough protein.

Enough carbohydrates.

Good hydration.

And some consistency with all of it.

Training creates the stimulus.

Recovery is where you actually adapt to it.

So if you’re putting serious effort into your performance…

Start taking the stuff OUTSIDE the gym seriously too.

Train like an athlete.

Fuel like one.

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Everyone loves talking about talent.

Speed.

Strength.

Skill.

Athleticism.

All important.

But there’s another quality coaches value massively.

Can they rely on you?

Can they rely on you to turn up?

Can they rely on you to prepare properly?

Can they rely on you to do your job when you’re tired?

Can they rely on you when the game isn’t going your way?

Can they rely on you to keep your standards when nobody is watching?

Because being a good athlete when everything feels great is easy.

It’s much harder when you’ve had a bad game.

When you’re sore.

When you’re frustrated.

When selection hasn’t gone your way.

When training is hard and progress feels slow.

That’s when your habits and standards actually mean something.

Talent can open doors.

But if you want to keep progressing, become the athlete coaches, teammates and everyone around you KNOW they can rely on.

Not occasionally. Every Week.

Every year I see the same thing.

Athletes spend months in the gym getting stronger, more powerful and better conditioned.

Then the season starts…

And strength training disappears.

Because games are back.

Training gets busier.

You’re carrying a bit more fatigue.

And suddenly the gym becomes the first thing to go.

That makes no sense.

You’ve spent all off-season building physical qualities that help you perform.

Why would you spend the next 6 months watching them disappear?

Your in-season training shouldn’t look exactly like your off-season training.

Volume probably needs to come down.

Exercise selection might change.

Sessions might need to be shorter.

You definitely don’t need to be crawling out of the gym two days before a game.

But you still need exposure to strength.

You still need to produce force.

You still need to move fast.

You still need to give your body a reason to KEEP the qualities you worked so hard to build.

The goal during the season isn’t to smash yourself in the gym.

It’s to maintain the physical qualities that allow you to perform on game day.

Train hard.

But more importantly…

Train with a purpose.