Edge Performance & Boxing

Your body has been showing up for you all week. The early mornings. The late sessions. The push when you didn't feel like pushing.

Today, give it something back.

— Coach E
𝙀𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 & 𝘽𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜
Find Your Edge.

𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙄'𝙢 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜.

26 years coaching, and I watch it play out the same way time and time again. Coaches aren't teaching young athletes enough about the importance of recovery, or giving them adequate recovery days. And athletes follow their coach's lead.

Parents, I hear you. You want your kid to get better. But adding practice on top of practice at home isn't the answer. It's doing more harm than good.

That's why it should always be about injury prevention first.

— Coach E
𝙀𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 & 𝘽𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜
Find Your Edge.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮.

I've been coaching for 26 years, and I spend a lot of time watching and studying athletes across different sports. Right now, I'm seeing a lot of athletes dealing with injuries — WNBA, track and field.

The muscles need time to repair. The tendons need time to recover and rebuild. The nervous system needs time to reset.
But somewhere along the way, we've created a culture where more is always better. No days off. Train harder. Push through.

And coaches are part of that problem.

As coaches, InI have to overstand that training is the stimulus. Recovery is where the adaptation happens.

If you continually pile more stress onto a body that hasn't recovered from the last session, you're not making that athlete better. You're adding to the stress rather than giving the body the opportunity to adapt to it.

Eventually, something has to give.
The goal isn't to see how much training an athlete can survive. The goal is to determine how much training they can recover from — and still get better.

Blessed Sunday🙏🏾 RasTafari and Empress Menen I love to you. 🫶🏾💛💚

— Coach E
𝙀𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 & 𝘽𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜
Find Your Edge.

The front is coming together.

Sign's up. Steel siding's on. Doors are in — door k***s going on next.
Simcoe, it's close.

— Coach E
𝙀𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 & 𝘽𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜
Find Your Edge

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚 — 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣.

Piece by piece, the space is becoming what it's meant to be. This is where the sweet science gets taught — patience, fundamentals, discipline. Almost there.

More to come this week.

— Coach E
𝙀𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 & 𝘽𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜
Find Your Edge

𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙖 𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠. 𝙉𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚.

Silence. No input. Time alone with your thoughts. Space with nothing in it. That's what the mind needs to actually recover.

Athletes and coaches confuse relaxation with recovery. Scrolling, TV, drinks with friends — that's still input. The mind is still on. The nervous system is still running.

Being bored is medicine. Unstimulated time is when the mind sorts itself out.

Mental recovery isn't the fun thing you do to feel better. It's the empty space you give the mind so it can recover.

— Coach E
𝙀𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 & 𝘽𝙤𝙭𝙞𝙣𝙜
Find Your Edge