

Trust the process and show up every day to work, and the only direction you could go was up. I could trust that the process was focused on the right areas of improvement in the right sequence and find ways to get the most out of my natural ability. It had an outcome-driven system in place to drive continuous improvement and peak performance.

The BFS program was a more scientific approach to ensuring that we stimulate both fast and slow-twitch muscles to increase not just size and strength, but also speed and agility. So you can imagine my excitement when my high school coaches instituted a new strength and conditioning program called ‘Bigger, Faster, Stronger’ (BFS) into our program. But I now realize it was the efficiency – the systematic approach to improvement – that attracted me to the hard work done during the off-season in the weight room. At the time, I may have been more delusional on images of myself as Rocky fighting the Russian. One of the reasons I gravitated towards playing football as an adolescent was the joy of improving in the weight room. To me, it was the ultimate team sport that represented the perfect balance between power and grace, intellect and brute force, and strategy and execution. I grew up loving football and enjoyed playing it in high school.
