Raincross High Performance

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At Raincross High Performance, we’re incredibly proud to celebrate the achievements of our very own Chris Bates, the Sr. Sports Medicine Mgr, Head Athletic Trainer, and Dir. of Athletic Performance for the USA Men’s Water Polo Team! Congratulations to Chris and the team on securing the bronze medal—their first in 16 years! 🥉

Chris’s dedication, expertise, and commitment to excellence have been instrumental in the team’s success. His work behind the scenes ensures that both Team USA and Raincross’ athletes are always at their best, both mentally and physically. This medal is a testament not just to the hard work of the Team USA players, but also to the exceptional support and guidance they receive from professionals like Chris.

Thank you, C. Bates, for representing Raincross with such distinction, and for your unwavering commitment to helping our high performers achieve greatness.

RHP’s youth ambassador Chris getting some lifting pointers and encouragement from Olympian

Sometimes, you gotta climb.

The Men’s Olympic Water Polo team found themselves with a tough hand and now faced with the challenge to climb onto the podium. Here, they have been challenged by to climb these stairs as an expression of climbing to their desired outcomes in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which is gonna take more work, which they certainly have in them. These are the moments they’ve trained for!

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ran into this giant human while taking USA’s Men’s Olympic Water Polo team through a quick lift in the Olympic Athlete’s Village. Can you guess what sport he participates in? To be clear, he’s 6’8” and 287 lbs.

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There are championship rings, and then there are Olympic rings.

Many don’t realize the value of the Olympics, except when the media starts to blast Olympic content leading up to the quadrennial event. But it’s what you do the other 3 years that is most critical. And this is why there is much to say about Olympians, all of whom are high performers. They don’t spend much time in the the spotlight or center stage. In fact, if most Olympians walked past you today in the grocery store or gas station, you’d probably walk right past them. But these folks are special humans. Showing up when no one else is around. Not requiring the best facilities to train in/on. Intrinsically motivated and not driven primary by fame, finances, or other frills. So while there will be some disappointment that there will be no spectators, these athletes never competed for spectators any way. They compete for themselves, the love of their sport, and their supporters, not to be confused with spectators and/or fans.

This is the epitome of high performance. An Olympic state of mind.

We desire to help and support people to realize these values of Olympians, while also challenging and supporting them to compete in life, beyond any sport.

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Mental skills.

It’s really a thing. I haven’t met one high-performer whose mental skills are not as sharp as their physical performance skills. I’d argue that you can’t have one without the other. If you desire to perform at high levels, it is imperative for you to get your mental weight up. They say don’t skip leg day, but also, don’t skip “head” day ensuring your are working on your mental skills.

ran into Dr. Michael Gervais] at the airport as they enter Japan, later to be joined by , to support Team USA with bringing home some hardware from the Tokyo2020 Games!

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Here are a few “head” day exercises by Dr. Michael Gervais]:

🧠 “Finding Mastery” podcast
🧠 “Compete to Create” Audible book
🧠 “Finding Your Best” book

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USA’s Men’s Water Polo team wrapped up one final week of pre-Game lifting, before they move in to the athlete village in Tokyo and start making withdrawals from all the deposits they’ve made up until now. has been reminding the fellas that you can’t take out what you don’t put in, but after making the constant deposits, the boys can write some fat checks that should pay big dividends.
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“𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔: 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒑 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒑 𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚. 𝑬𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓.”

‭‭2 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔‬ ‭9:6-7‬

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New intern alert.
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Meet Corban, RHP’s newest intern, helping to support USA’s Men’s Olympic Water Polo team while they train in Oahu prior to the team heading off to Tokyo in 3 days.



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It’s time to let yourself fly!

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