Quote:Only the strong will survive! Or do they? How important part does physical or mental strength training play in your players offseason and how they do it? Are they focusing mostly on lower body strength or do they take more balanced approach? Or is it all about the core strength that helps them stay in right position at the goal? Maybe they think that surviving is really more dependent on mental strength and finding it inside themselves, but is there even a way to train that?

Here's the thing, physical fitness is paramount to being able to perform at a high level, but that part is the easiest part of the equation. The harder part is mental, even in regards to the physical. Your mind taps out long before your body does, and so thats where concentration needs to be.

There was once a great wide receiver named Jarvis Landry who gave an incredible speech on Hard Knocks on HBO that I think is applicable here. If your hamstring aint hanging off the bone, your leg aint broke, you practice. Because that shit is weakness and that shit is contagious. Weakness is contagious. Weak shit don't live here no more and it don't exist.

And so with that in mind, you better believe that the mental grind will be the focus above and beyond the physical, but both are top level priorities to insure that the first season at the SHL level is one of excellence for McLovin!