6
Minutes of Focus and Intensity

How long is 6 minutes?  well if your not prepared both mentally and physically it can be an eternity. The way you learn to stay focused and intense throughout your match is to practice being intense.

It’s harder to stay focused in a match because there’s more pressure on you like worrying about losing, the guy is mean, he keeps coming after you, or the biggest enemy of all fatigue. All of these things affect your mental state thus causing you to lose focus and ultimately the match. You can prepare yourself mentally but that happens in the practice room and in your everyday life style. Are you mentally disciplined and if not do you want to be, because if you do not practice it in your everyday life it won’t happen on the mat.  

When a coach shows you a move or drill, practice only that move not something you have invented that works better “okay Einstein”. Practice the move the way we show it,  after time you may develop a little variation of the move that works better for you, but that happens after practice during free wrestling time not during a coach’s instruction time.

Once you start maintaining focus and intensity for a whole practice, day after day, then you will be able to maintain it through a tough, intense 6-minute match.  

REPETITION: How many reps does it take? Remember "Quality over Quantity".

250 - getting a good understanding of the move

500 - becoming good at the move

1000 to 2000 - beating state quality wrestlers with the move

Don’t wait until your a junior or senior to decide to become your best, by then you may be a couple of thousand of reps behind someone else out there that’s been working since their freshman year.  

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