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[lk8701]

“Mental Conditioning Coach”?!?!

That was Phil Jackson's best strength as a head coach in the NBA. Obviously he had great players but they never won before him. 11 rings.

 

[Zman5]

I prefer a Watson style massage

With or without the happy ending?

 

[Ranching]

With or without the happy ending?

Let me ask Deshawn what he recommends...

 

[32BellyOption]

It’s a crazy world we live in and everyone has pressures in life and needs someone to talk to sometimes. Glad the team is providing this for the players.

 

[nalam]

Who is talking about mental health? Lol… this is “mental conditioning”. Don’t put words in my mouth. I have a psych degree and spent two years as a counselor.

I misinterpreted, excuse me !

 

[CWR]

Time for the old folks to come in here and make fun of people trying to take care of their mental health.

I'm not that old, but this is awesome. Life is about perspective.

 

[CWR]

Yoga is actually amazing. Feel so good after I do it

Yoga and just stretching in general is awesome. We walk around building up so much tension I can't imagine not trying to loosen up a few times a week. I've done yoga a few times and it's ridiculously difficult. I'm in pretty decent shape, and I'd get whooped in a yoga class.

 

[CWR]

Yoga is new age gobble de gook.

The team needs to be working with a ballerina instructor..
It worked for Hershal Walker.

Dude built that body with 3500 push ups a day and ballerinas. Lol freaking unreal.

 

[Ranched]

Yoga is actually amazing. Feel so good after I do it

That's what she said!

I prefer a Watson style massage

Is Putty aware of this?!

 

[Chocolate Lab]

The mental health/conditioning piece was only part of this story. The devoting Fridays to physical recovery versus practice was what I found interesting. It says the Packers' conditioning coach convinced McCarthy of this. I'm curious what the basis for it is. I don't doubt the validity, just curious about the research/science behind it.

Mike talked about this in a PC a few weeks ago. Said his conditioning coach in GB got it from Australian Rules Football after going there to study it. He said at first he didn't go to it because they were having so much success in those years but once he tried it he thought it really helped.

And unrelated to mental stuff, but the Ticket was talking the other day about how much he emphasizes turnovers -- which all coaches say they do. But when Mike got here there was only one Jugs gun. Mike talked them into upping that to eight. And now the DBs do drills on them after practice to help their ball skills.

Another reason I think he's more than a big buffoon who just stands on the sidelines and blows timeouts.

 

[JonesBoys]

Time for the old folks to come in here and make fun of people trying to take care of their mental health.

lol, I’m old, 46 and I love this. The mental part of the game is very underrated. It’s a long grind and if the mind isn’t right the body isn’t right. Like Jimmy used to say, let the mind control the body not the body control the mind.

 

[CWR]

Mike talked about this in a PC a few weeks ago. Said his conditioning coach in GB got it from Australian Rules Football after going there to study it. He said at first he didn't go to it because they were having so much success in those years but once he tried it he thought it really helped.

And unrelated to mental stuff, but the Ticket was talking the other day about how much he emphasizes turnovers -- which all coaches say they do. But when Mike got here there was only one Jugs gun. Mike talked them into upping that to eight. And now the DBs do drills on them after practice to help their ball skills.

Another reason I think he's more than a big buffoon who just stands on the sidelines and blows timeouts.

Wow, that's an indictment on our past coaches. You want dbs will ball skills, then coach them up? Crazy. Yes MM is judged with little knowledge of what his day to day impact actually is. Things like that make a big difference. It's one thing to talk about it, and another thing to be about it.

 

[Brax]

Do you recall the players talking about him at all prior to this season?

Don't be that guy.

All those years with the Yankees and 9 consulting in Dallas and other pro teams I guess the message was lost the last 8 seasons in Dallas with the soft players now after 5 games they are hard as steel, lol.

 

[zrinkill]

Yea ........ I'm gonna back out of this thread ....... its screaming politics.

 

[jrumann59]

“Mental Conditioning Coach”?!?!

Well players today get triggered if yelled at so you have to go a different route

 

[lqmac1]

I saw the Gregory interview where he said Chad has been here since he got drafted. I haven’t heard of this dude until a couple of weeks ago, but I do think it’s good they have that for mental health in place.

And for the “back in my day” seniors, y’all nor did the players of your generation experience the accessibility regular people have to get in contact directly with players through social media.

Y'alls biggest struggle w phones was having one
and/or the dial getting jammed.

 

[JoeKing]

Time for the old folks to come in here and make fun of people trying to take care of their mental health.

Why would you say such a thing? Do you think taking care of mental health is only acceptable recently?

 

[bigE79]

Get woke. It's all about feelings these days.

I'd rather not.

 

[bigE79]

I think some on here are mistaken on what the mental conditioning coach is about. It's about making sure your mind is focused...in the right place every game and every practice with a singular goal of making every single play your best play...it helps then to avoid distractions, staying even keel and not getting too high as a result of success, or getting too low as a result of failure. It's about trusting your teammates that they will do what they are supposed to do so that you can focus on what you need to to do. It's also about (I almost hate to say it...trusting the process). Mental conditioning is just as important as physical conditioning...yet I don't hear anyone making fun of the athletic trainer.

Yep,we had the great mental coaches,Landry, Johnson and big Bill and the players never seemed to lose focus.

 

[Bullflop]

It's very real...I was a high level collegiate swimmer and it was a crucial part of prep and training

Good Gawd -- guess I'm due to get re-acquainted with a world that I've either outgrown or that's outgrown me?! Hello!!