Sent 10 emails to coaches, got zero replies? You’re ahead of every kid who hasn’t sent one. Missed the lift? Ahead of everyone who didn’t attempt it. Got cut from the team? Ahead of the kid who didn’t try out. Messed up the play in practice? Ahead of the kid sitting on the bench staying silent. Everyone who’s actually achieved anything has a graveyard of failed reps, ghosted emails, missed shots, bad games, and embarrassing moments behind them. The people laughing at you for trying? They’re not even in the race. Keep sending the emails. Keep grinding the reps. Keep practicing the play. Keep showing up. Failing forward beats sitting still every single time. — Coach Owen

9 out of 10 programs work. They’re all designed by people who know what they’re doing. So why do some athletes get results and others don’t? Mentality. Intensity. Presence. When you walk into the gym are you LOCKED IN? Or are you on your phone between sets, half-counting reps, going through the motions? Are you actually LIFTING the weight? Or are you moving it? Are you bracing? Breathing right? Engaging the muscle you’re supposed to be working? Are you pushing the last rep when it gets hard or stopping when it gets uncomfortable? The kid running the “perfect” program with 60% effort gets nothing. The kid running an average program with 100% effort gets results. Stop looking for the magic program. Look at how you show up. — Coach Owen

I get asked too much when's the best time to outreach? When should i email? Whats the right sentence? In Short none of those things matter. No specially crafted sentence will outshine a bad highlight reel or bad CV. Improper grammar won't matter with a spectacular highlight reel and CV. A coach won't ignore your email because it was sent on October 17th and Not August 1st. These are all small minor things that in hindsight don't matter. Sending emails year round is how you stay in a system flowing. More emails means more chance of being seen, Being watched, being responded too. Don't be scared of folllowing up every two weeks with emails. Spam them, send it to every coach on the coaching staff. Nobody is going to do it for you. You have the resources, just need to put in the time. Pathway Dropping 6/17

I’m currently stuck in a New York airport for the next 5 hours. My flight is departing at the time I should’ve been arriving to my home. This is also not to mention we could be delayed even further. As there is still 4 more hours until we board. And I could have every right to be mad. - Home at 5am which should’ve been 11:30pm - Having to be in airport for 5 hours - Retesting a Hyrox tomorrow on a few hours of sleep - Rushed here for no reason - Spend more money on food and drinks But amongst all of this. ALL of it, I’m going to do my best to find the good. Not saying I’m thrilled about this because I’m definitely not. But why keep complaining about a situation that you literally can’t control. Instead of complaining about it and doomscrolling the entire time. I’m going too - Eat and watch the USA Game with my dad for the entire match - Work on some restructuring here in the platform - And Get ahead of next week client plans and programs So even though this does suck and I’m not joyous about it, make the best of a bad situation. Applies to all things in life. This is something I learn and try to get better at everyday. We are all growing mentally. But this is a skill that we all need, not just as athletes. But as humans -Coach Owen

"Achieving a goal only changes your life for the moment." — James Clear, Atomic Habits Read that twice. Most athletes — myself included for years — define themselves by goals. Make the team. Get the scholarship. Win the championship. Sign the contract. The trap: every one of those is binary. You either get it or you don't. If you don't, you feel like a failure. If you DO, the high lasts about a week and then you're chasing the next one. Here's what I've learned: don't define yourself by the goal. Define yourself by: - The systems you built that are repeatable and apply to everything - The person you became chasing it - The lessons you learned along the way - The adversity you faced and worked through - The mentality you developed when it got hard That's what stays with you. The goal doesn't. Look at the World Cup. 48 countries enter, every one of them with the same goal: lift the trophy. 47 of them lose. Does losing the World Cup define France? Argentina? Brazil? Germany? No. What defines those nations is how their players bounce back, what their next generation learns, what habits and systems they build between tournaments. The goal was the same. The IDENTITY came from everything else. Goals are survivorship bias dressed up as motivation. They create an either-or trap: hit it = success, miss it = failure. But anyone who's actually achieved anything will tell you the same thing — the person you became chasing it mattered more than whether you got it. When you set a goal this season, ask yourself a different question: Not "will I hit this?" But "who will I become trying?" That's the real game. — Coach Owen