I hear a lot of people throw around the phrase “my team”, but have you really thought about who’s on your team? Did you choose them because of how they look or what they can do? It’s easy to look good, being good at your craft is a task. In that, I’ll drop my two cents on the steroid controversy between Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. The public never saw the real issue. As a former baseball player and student of the game, if you can’t hit, you just can’t hit. Hitting requires more skill than strength. Lifting massive amounts of weights doesn’t really factor as prominently as people think it does, actually, massive muscles slow your bat speed down. Hitting homeruns is all in being able to generate bat speed. Otherwise, then why don’t power lifters just transition over into baseball (rhetorically speaking)?
Same with Roger Clemens. If you don’t have the natural build and body leverage to throw close to 100 mph without steroids, you won’t when you do take steroids. And in the same fashion, generating velocity is in transferring leg drive to your pitching arm (coordination) and being loose enough around the joints to create a whip action. What I will say is that they were all performing at the top of their game at an elite level, in a stage of life where their bodies should’ve been slowing down. Steroids will allow you to recuperate faster and possibly that was the unfair advantage.
Does your team really have your best interest in mind? Or are they just using you? Now there’s a difference, a fine line, it’s not using of course if you want to be compensated for your work and time. But are they double-crossing you (quick to cut a deal behind your back?). Or will they walk off from you or turn their back on you if things start to look hairy? Are they truly qualified to do the job, or is it that you just like this person? Maybe you don’t know anybody else. Do they pump your head up unnecessarily when they should be alerting you to possible dangers?
People that do that are definitely just around you for a check, they don’t really believe in you or your program, and they’ll ditch you at the first sign of trouble, or may already be ditching you if a better offer comes along? Are they just trying something different at the expense of your very valuable time? When you really analyze their character, would they be just as happy doing something far less involved? Which is not a bad thing, but it’s not the right fit for you. To a degree these are people you don’t need on your team.
