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Hello and welcome to Pickleball Therapy,
the podcast dedicated to

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your pickleball improvement.
I'm your host, Tony Roy.

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It's a pleasure to be with you.

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This is a special episode of the podcast.

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In this special episode, I
got to interview Ty Woody.

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Ty Woody is a sports performance coach.

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He works with pros, as well as amateur
pickleball players

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in terms of their body, getting their
bodies ready to play the best possible

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pickleball, dealing with injury
prevention and things like that.

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So we wanted to chat with Ty about the
body and about ways that we can get our

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bodies in the best position
to play our best pickleball.

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And that's part of the athletic pillar
that we talk about at Better Pickleball.

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The mechanical pillar, the strategic
pillar, and the athletic The Body and mind

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connection, so important,
how will it perform.

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And Ty is going to share with
us some thoughts on that topic.

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We got the opportunity to meet Ty at our
intensive camp in Arizona, and all the

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players there had nothing but great things
to say about so we wanted to bring to you

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some of the ideas and concepts from Ty
to help you play your best pickleball.

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Let's jump into the podcast.

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Ty, good to see you.
How are you doing today?

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How's everything your way?

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Doing well.
How are you, Tony?

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Living the dream over here in Arizona.

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Nice, cool, 70 degree weather.

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I already mentioned this to you,
but I love your background there.

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The very colorful, very festive.

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So that's an awesome background.

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Much better than my still under
construction, figuring

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stuff out background here.

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So You got to enjoy it.
You got to enjoy it.

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Yeah.

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You got to enjoy the moment,
enjoy the process, right?

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So, Ty, I've already given an introduction
about you, so the folks out there know

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what to expect in this conversation.

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But let's dive right into it.

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I know that you're doing a lot of work now
with pickleball players have become a

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really important part of
your process, of your work.

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And particular interest to listeners would
be, walk us through a little bit about

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that, your experience, what you've seen in
terms of maybe areas that Pickleball

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players, just as a general rule, could use
some help, suffering injuries,

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wherever you want to take it.

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But something that's specific to
Pickleball players would be really

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helpful to the folks listening.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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So what I can tell you, so with my
background a little bit, I've worked with

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a whole wide range
of sports and a whole wide range of

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athletes, younger to 60 plus crowd.

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And what I think I've noticed a lot with
pickleball players is they They tend to

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think they're the exception to everything.

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So in every other sport, we warm up.

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We warm up before we practice.

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We warm up before we play.

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We are in the weight
room strength training.

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We are taking our recovery
days when we need to.

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They're planned, they're on purpose.

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And so a lot of time with pickleball
players is for some reason we think,

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well, I don't need to do any of that.

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It's like, we're just going to go do this.

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And I think it's really important to
remember for players is this is a sport.

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I don't care what anybody
says or does whatever.

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Like, pickleball is a sport.

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You're doing the same athletic movements
other sports are doing.

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And so you need to prepare
your body for that, right?

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And so oftentimes, I would say,
is you have to give it the

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respect that it deserves.

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So the importance of warming
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There is one thing
that could change your game, that could

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change how your body feels, that could
help you get the leg up on your opponent.

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Take 10 to 15 minutes
before you go play and warm up.

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It's low hanging fruit, and it's
super easy to do, and it's free.

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If I could offer you
something that would...

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It's legal,
it doesn't cost you any money, and it will

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increase your alert reduce your chance of
getting injured and all those things that

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you're looking for, would you take it?
That's a warm up.

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So there is something I could tell players
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It's we have to change
this culture a little bit.

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It's weird to warm It's weird
to go do this before I go play.

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It's weird to do these things.

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We just want to go dink and
hit the ball right away.

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We have to change that culture shift a
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like, no, we're taking care of our bodies.

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At the end of the day, we want
to play the sport that we enjoy.

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It's just one of those things.
You got to do it.

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I don't know.
There's no other way around it.

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You got to do it.

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What's interesting is I think we should
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really a warmup, that's
just social interaction.

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It's nothing wrong with You go
out there, you dink a little bit.

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Hey, how are you doing, Ty?
What's going on?

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What's going on in your life?
You tell me we're not warming up.

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We're not even warming
up our shots, really.

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So, Ty, let's play on that a little bit
more because there's two pieces

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to it, which I think are valuable.

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And so the idea of reducing injuries is
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should be a reason alone to warm up.

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But I think that should be enough.

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The full stop, we're done, go warm up.

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But it doesn't seem to do the job.

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So I think the candy or the fudge on top
of this thing that we can share with

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listeners is the improved performance.

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Because I'm
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but I know that I've seen reports about
studies and stuff that show that

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you'll play better.

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You're going to move better,
you're going to play better.

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Forget about the injuries.

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You're just going to have a
better day of playing pickleball.

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Is that accurate?

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Oh, yeah.
A 10,000 % accurate.

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Like I said, there's a reason
every other sport does this.

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There's a reason that you are
spending time in the weight room and

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you're building muscle, you're getting
stronger, you're working on different

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athletic movements to help you, not only,
again, from the injury prevention

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standpoint, but all of
us as players, right?

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We want to be able to
get to the ball faster.

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We want to be able to
cover ground quicker.

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We want to be able to hit the shots
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And so when we think about shots, we spend
so much time on drilling a shot, drilling

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a shot, drilling a shot,
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We need it.

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But if I'm not in position to hit the shot
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So you have to be fast enough
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to rotate and shift to
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But then when you get into, man, I want a
more powerful shot, then you think about

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getting into the weight room to improve
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your ability to transfer force from the
lower body through the core, through the

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upper body, through the
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That's what we all care about, right?
We want to be able to win.

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And so at the end of the day,
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and you want to elevate your game, whether
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being the best person in the neighborhood,
or whether that's winning your league, or

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whether that's going to win a tournament,
or whether that's going to play

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at the highest possible level.

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Like strength training and exercise
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There's really no other
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That doesn't mean you got to
go lift a thousand pounds.

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That's not what that even means.

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But getting stronger in your body, being
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being able to jump and change
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It's part of it.

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If you do it appropriately, no
matter what your age is, if you progress

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it and do it appropriately,
you can do those things.

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I have 50, 60-year-olds that are jumping.

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They're jumping and landing on one leg.

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They're changing direction
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It's all possible, but the caveat is
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progressed appropriately.

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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

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The other thing, I
always try and throw extra bonuses on here

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for folks, but
you're going to live better.

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You're going to feel better, you're going
to move better, you're going

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to get out of bed easier.

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I'm not in fantastic shape, but I have
been going to the gym more frequently

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now, and I can see a difference.

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I'll tell you something simple.

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I'm moving some stuff around today,
so I dropped something.

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It was like behind something.

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Usually, to get that thing is
like, oh, shit, I got to get down.

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But I feel more like I'm stronger, but
also easier for me to just

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get into the position to grab the
I'm playing, and it was no problem.

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Why?
Because I'm going to the gym.

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I also know that when I get on the
pickleball court, I'm

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going to play better.

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There's all these benefits to doing this
work, and I think it's

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100% what you're saying.

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Now, one of the things, let's
sell it to them, though, Ty.

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Let's sell it to the listener
because here's the thing.

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Let's go to the top of the game, and then
we'll come back to amateur play, right?

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Because I think there's a couple of pros
that listen to this podcast, but most

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of our listeners are amateurs, right?

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Of course they do, especially
when they know Ty's on there.

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I got to hear what's going on with time.

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So I know that you've done some work and
are doing some work with some

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pro players and things like that.

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Talk to us really just big picture.

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They have a grueling season that they play
pickleball in, so they need to get their

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bodies to recover, to deal with the stress
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that they play pickleball.

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Just give us some general sense of what is
it that a pro player, what

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are they thinking about?
What are they doing?

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What are you recommending to them?

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Big picture stuff, and then we'll go from
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I think you hit the nail on the head a
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don't have really a off-season.

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We actually got really lucky here in this
last month or so with a few of them, we

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actually got an off-season season where
they weren't playing four

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tournaments in a month, right?

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And they actually got to take
a little bit of a breather.

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And so that's the name of the game is, we
don't want to be the best pickleball

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player we can be for
January or February, right?

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That's great.

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You were the best player ever for a month
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And so the secret is just
how do we have the longevity?

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I mean, that applies to
amateur players, too.

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It goes so far beyond just, I'm I'm trying
to be the best I can be right now today.

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It's like, that's great.
How about five years?

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How about 10 years?

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And so being able to recover and rest is
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we have to be aware of, because when you
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the season is just being able to...

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There's going to be somebody that I've
told them, and they always fight with me,

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but I tell them, look, we're
not doing anything today.

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You just got back from a tournament.

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How are you feeling?

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Based on that answer determines what we're
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going to do us no good
if you are mentally and physically shot.

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And I'm like, all right, let's go
strength train for two straight days.

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And you're slogging your
way through the whole thing.

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And so that is really the delicate art and
the dance that we have to do

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with the pro guys and girls.

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Pro guys and girls, is being
able to, how do we give them enough

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stimulus to help them make the gains and
make the progresses that we want, make the

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progression we want them to make
while also not overdoing it.

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We always have to figure out, how do I
flirt with the line of getting us right

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there and then bringing it back down, or
maybe getting them right there

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and then bringing it back down.

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For some people, it's, all right,
we got four tournaments in a month.

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Maybe that means we're working out once,
once a week, and that's all we're getting

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because you're traveling, you're
playing, you're competing.

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If you do great, you're
making it for Sunday.

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The reality is maybe we're getting once a
weekend and then we're not doing anything

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except your of stuff for the next day
or two, and then you go compete again.

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But for other players, oh, I only
got one tournament this month.

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Great.

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That means we're going to be able to work
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and then you go compete and do your thing.

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It's different for everybody.

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But when you're thinking about, I guess,
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applies to every level of player,
you have to be strategic about how you

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organize and plan your month, your year,
your weeks, making sure that, all right,

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these days I'm getting my strength
training in, these days I'm getting my

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rest and recovery, and these days I'm
getting my pickleball

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drilling in and playing.

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That's really how you have
to do it at the pro level.

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And I think that can easily trickle
down and work for every level of player.

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Yeah, it sounds like a couple of
things that I want to play off there.

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One, I'm going to make a statement,
then I might ask you a question.

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But obviously, the pros need to
plan their playing for a whole year.

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And you made The
way you framed it was great.

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January and February, great.

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Then I don't have juice left.

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I don't have energy left,
so I'm not going to be...

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I'm going to have a big lull or maybe
get injured or whatever because

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I haven't prepared my body.

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For amateur players, we like to
think about it for a session.

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You go out and you want to play.

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Amateur players sometimes play
two, three, sometimes four hours.

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They'll come out and they'll play two
amazing games, and then

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they just can't do anymore.

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They're the best dinker
on the planet for a game.

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And then they can't do it anymore
because their body gives out.

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So I think the same analogy applies to, or
the same thinking applies to

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amateur players within sessions.

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But the other thing I wanted to play on
was, and this is where I'm going to ask

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you a question, is the idea that
even pro players need

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to be sensitive to, and you need to be
sensitive as their coach, to

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what's going on in my life.

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And so amateur players might play four
days a week, some play seven

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days a week, but they're playing.

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So they need to work within
what they can do.

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But the key that I'm hearing from you is
be intentional about it and do something.

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In other words, if it's one day a week
that you go to the gym and work out,

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that's better than zero days of the week
for that week that you go

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to the gym and work out.
And that's okay.

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Let's do that.

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So does that sound correct to you with an
amateur player and How would you talk to

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an amateur player who plays
five days a week, six days a week in terms

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of figuring out how do I do this
weight training or stretching or

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whatever around my normal play?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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I think you really made a good point a
couple of times when

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you were speaking there.

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You have to fact find a little bit.

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One thing I always tell us players,
I'm like, what are your goals?

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Because that sets up
this whole conversation.

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Because that will determine the plan of
action and the level of focus we're really

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going to have with prepping
and doing certain things.

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But I would say in general, I think you
hit it spot on with being intentional.

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That is everything.

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So many times players
are, I want to get better.

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That's great.

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But what's the game plan to
actually help us get better?

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And so, like you said, some players want
to go two, three, four hours,

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five hours, whatever it is.

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And I know for me as a player,
I'm good at two hours.

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If I go my two hours, it's
going to start tanking.

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And so when players have to start thinking
about if you're really looking to improve,

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maybe two hours is where I'm going.

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When I drill, 90 minutes to two hours,
that is my limit, or else this

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becomes counterproductive.

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And so being very intentional with that
time frame that you do have, right?

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So not only is that going to help you with
being more intentional, less is more.

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Just because I'm putting in 20 hours a
week doesn't mean we're

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getting any better here.

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Can we achieve the same results or
actually get better in less time.

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And now you've taken with less time, we
have now put less wear and tear on the

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tires of our bodies, and now we've
opened up-time to go do other things.

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That can mean resting, recovering.

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That can mean going into the gym.

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And so for some people, it's, hey, I think
you said it, too, was

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just get in there once a week.

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We don't even have to worry about going in
two, three, four, five,

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six, seven times a week.
No, I don't even care.

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Get yourself in there once a week with
purpose and intent of getting into the

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weight room and strength
training and exercising.

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That in and of itself will help you.

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It's not about diving head first and we're
like, man, we're going to

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drill five days a week.

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We're going to hit the
gym five days a week.

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That's not realistic.
Let's not kid ourselves here.

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And so being intentional of, all right,
I'm going to get into the gym

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once a week for this month.

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And then next month, I'm going
to get into the gym twice a week.

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And I'm going to drill three
times a week at two hours a block.

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That's the level of thinking we have
to have if we're looking to improve.

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There's really no other way to sugarcoat
it other than you have to

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just be the word intentional.

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That is the most important word you have
to have when you're thinking about these

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things and how do I want to improve.

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The only thing I push back on there, Ty, a
little bit is I would say,

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if you want to improve, you definitely...

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But I would just say if you just want to
be able to get down like I did earlier and

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grab something off the floor without
going, Oh, cry, and just feel better.

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It's a worthy investment.

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And a part that's not, I think, I don't
think gets the cred that it deserves it.

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I mean, it's not like it's
not talked about some, right?

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You hear about it, but you
get a tremendous mental benefit from

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having your body in a better
shape makes your mind feel better.

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And so it just all works
together as one big happy system.

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So let me ask you.
.

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Well, let me ask you.

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I'm going to put you on
the spot a little bit here.

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I'm going to ask you for...

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I was going to ask you for one
thing that a player could do to improve.

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Warmups, I think, is absolutely critical.
You've already touched that one.

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So I'm going to ask you for
a second one, which is this.

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Let me frame it for you.

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So I'm going to give you a range of
Let me describe three different players to

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you, and let's see if there's one thing
that we can do that you can say,

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start doing this today or tomorrow.

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And obviously, if
you need to check with your doctor, check

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with your doctor, all the caveats that
need to go out there for

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doing anything physical.

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So if you're not sure, check with your
doctor first, health care provider.

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So we got one player is a player who plays
pickleball, obviously, but

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doesn't do anything else.

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Second player is a player that they do a
little bit of warmup, they do a little bit

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of stretching, and they play pickleball,
but they don't really do anything else.

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Then the third player is one that maybe
once in a while might hit the gym or might

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do something like that, but
doesn't really have a set thing.

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They do a little bit
more than the second one.

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But none of these players are super
hard core working on all the time.

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Is there one thing that they can do,
whether it's balance, mobility, strength?

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The only thing is it has to be
like body weight, something they can do

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like if they wanted to do it, they could
do it when they're done with this podcast,

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or they can do it when
they get home or whatever.

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Something that is relatively simple, but
that they would feel good about doing and

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they can just start doing pretty quick.

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It's a good question.

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I know, right?

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That's a good question, and I feel like I
could give a different

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answer for each group.
Go ahead.

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If you want to give a
different answer, that's fine.

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But to me, I would ask...

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I'm not trying to give you an answer, but
for instance, if bodyweight squatting is

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good enough, that's a fine answer to me.

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I'm trying to think of
something that's getting...

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I tell friends of mine that...

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I'm going a little off topic here, not off
topic, but I tell friends of mine

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sometimes that are out of shape.

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I'll tell them, lay down.

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And this is not news to you, I know, but
the listener might be like, I tell them,

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lay down on the floor,
stand up, calmly, right?

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Lay down, stand up, do it 10 times,
and you're going to be out of breath.

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So to me, that's a full body
exercise, but that's very specific.

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So I don't know if you have something that
you'd recommend that is simple like that.

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Man, I mean, you can This is the answer
I have to give, but people hate it.

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It depends, right?

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It depends on who you
are and where you're at.

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Because sometimes it can be as simple as
just get up and out of the chair, right?

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Because you're working on
that squat position, right?

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Or if you're thinking about a
split squat, start on one knee and

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then just stand up from there, right?

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And stand yourself straight
up from that one knee, right?

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Sitting just
simple movements like that can be

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And they can be bodyweight movements, but
positions that of just getting up

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and down, getting up and down, right?

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Or just learning how to
hinge and just reaching your hips

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back and standing up tall, right?

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Learning how to load and reach your
hips back and then sit up nice and tall.

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We could dive.

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It's hard for me to give a quick
little answer because it goes so far.

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Listen, here's the thing, right?

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You're listening to this podcast and
you're not really doing

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any weight training.

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How many reps would you think is a good
target for someone, just body weight-wise,

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getting out of a chair, 5 or 10 or
something like that, depending

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on where they get to.

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Do it until you feel like, holy crap,
I can feel it in my legs, right?

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I can feel in my glutes,
in my legs, in my...

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A good A good rule of thumb that I apply
to people all the time that I work with.

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I'm like a seven out of 10 difficulty.

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That's a good little range of, man,
this feels like a seven out of 10.

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I'm working here.

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If we're doing an exercise and you and I
can sit here and have a nice, lovely

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conversation, I can just sit here and I'm
doing this with you and

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we're talking about life.

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I'm like, this ain't
doing anything for us.

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So thinking about a seven
out of 10 difficulty.

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So what does that mean?

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Does that mean that could be five reps if
you're standing up and

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down out of a chair?

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That could be you holding a bag while
you're sitting up and down out of

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a chair and doing that six times.

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It's a little bit different for everybody.

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But thinking about a seven out of 10
difficulty can be a

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good spot for somebody.

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But if you're very inactive, maybe start
at a five out of 10 and then progress up

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to a six or a seven,
whatever that looks like.

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Yeah, but it's interesting.

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At the end of the day,
how much you can do.

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Body weight, good idea.

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Like a bag of groceries,
big watermelon, whatever.

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Just make it a little bit.
Anything.

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Don't ever think it.

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Fill your pickleball bag with stuff.
There you go.

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I like that.

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If you have 22 paddles in your bag, put
them in your bag, stand

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up, hold it in that bag.
All right, guys.

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Now, if someone's listening to this
podcast and they're like, I

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like what I'm hearing from Ty.

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Sounds like a smart young man,
knows what he's talking about.

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Is there a possibility of doing some stuff
with you online, Zoom, things like that,

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to get some advice and things like that?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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I love to, even whether that's interested
in a learning program that I can do for

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you, even just general questions, I'm
more than happy to be able to answer them.

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So if you just shoot me a message over on
my Instagram, which is

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@pickaballsportsreformance, or if you
want to send me an email, T-Wody5447.

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Com, 6@outlook.
Com.

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Those are both super easy ways to get a
hold of me, and I'd love to be able

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to answer as many questions as I can.

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Awesome.

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And we'll put those in
the show notes as well.

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We had the opportunity, as I mentioned at
the introduction to work with

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Ty at our intensive in Arizona.
It was a pleasure to work with him.

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All the players had nothing but nice
things to say about Ty and his friend

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Landon, who came out and
helped us out at the camp.

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So Ty, it was a pleasure to chat with you.

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I appreciate you sharing
your tips on the body.

452
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And folks, warm up and start standing
up by the cares of watermelons.

453
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Thanks a lot, Ty.
I really appreciate your time.

454
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Thank you for having me on.