Perfect Timing

A hectic week that did not go as planned and then sort of did…

Monday was supposed to be my first day fully active in team practice.

Monday morning I wake up and goodness I got hit with some sort of virus, a nasty one too.

From laying down on the bathroom floor to a trip to the hospital for an IV drip, this virus beat the dog poop out of me.

The plan was for me to be back this week, but the plan had hit a hiccup.

How do I adjust?

How do I respond?

Let me share some of my thoughts…

Why I Do This:

This week I don’t have a message from the community that I specifically want to highlight, but I want to share another side of ‘why I do this?’.

Making content and building a community takes time and mental bandwidth. With as much positive feedback as I get, I also get some negative. It’s not so much feedback about the content itself, but more so feedback that I should “focus on basketball”.

Since really taking my personal brand and Atypical seriously, I have exploded as human being.

Sharing my weekly thoughts with you, building out YouTube video storylines, breaking down game film, documenting my workouts, and approaching life with intention has unlocked a level of me I did not know was possible.

My commitment to you guys holds me accountable for my own growth.

I want you guys to become more and the only way I know how to push you towards that is to share my journey towards becoming more.

So… I need to commit to my growth, commit to my journey, and commit to my excellence.

The Atypical community has helped me become a greater person and in turn it has helped me become a greater basketball player.

In my personal experience, the greater the human, the greater the basketball player.

You guys have pushed me to be greater.

With the intention of building a community for you guys, I have built a community for myself.

So, thank you for the support you give me and the ways you inspire me.

Big Announcement

I am sure in my tone of communicating that you can feel and hear how protective I am of this Atypical community.

With that being said, I have turned down tons of sponsorship deals and partnerships because I only want to promote products and people that I genuinely believe in and use myself.

Well, the best of the best approached me to partner, and it was a NO BRAINER.

You guys might be familiar with Mike Guevara at GBG (Greatness Breeds Greatness) Hoops, but if you are not, let me fill you in.

Mike G. is top of industry when it comes to sports performance and basketball performance specifically. Countless NBA guys trust them for both in-season and off-season work, and for the sake of name-dropping, some of them are: Jrue Holiday, Anthony Davis, Fred VanFleet, Mike James, Spencer Dinwiddie, and Rajon Rondo.

I have not seen a performance coach have workouts that have better direct on-court application than Mike G. For the last two years, I have admired his work from afar by adding many of his exercises to my own training programs.

Mike G. understands what it takes to get to the next level and I want to push the Atypical community to professionals like him that know more than me while still aligning with the Atypical mindset.

All this being said, Mike G. and his GBG Hoops team developed what I think is the highest level basketball performance training app for hoopers out there.

If you want to become a better basketball player, a better basketball mover, or simply have a more basketball durable body, then this is where you should start.

Mike G. gave me a code (TREYD20) to share with you guys that when applied at checkout will give you 20% off the first 4 months of your subscription.

This is an affiliate code, so when you use it, it will also help support Atypical and our mission to motivate basketball players and people of all ages to define their excellence and constantly evolve to more.

I am very excited to be associated with a pro like Mike G. and this only shows more and more that the Atypical brand is expanding and bringing higher and higher level people into the community.

Thoughts From This Week

Patience in the Process

It sucks having to wait.

It sucks when things do not go exactly as planned.

It sucks when the things you want now need to wait.

Reflecting on my mindset during my injury as well as the sickness that delayed my comeback, illuminated an area that I need to improve in.

During my whole injury, albeit it was relatively short (little less than 3 weeks), I felt myself longing to be back on the court. This is a completely normal feeling, but if left unacknowledged can actually hinder your recovery.

What was that “longing” feeling?

It was my way of mourning that I could not play. It was a mix of sadness, disappointment, frustration, and helplessness. It would get even more intense when I would have to sit on the sidelines during games and practices.

Games were the worst.

It felt like my soul was being ripped out of my chest not being able to help my teammates as they were getting beat up on in Manresa.

Typical athlete feelings when injured, yes.

In the past, I would have allowed these feelings to accompany my rehab as a frantic buzz underlying my workouts, a self-imposed pressure to get back and get back NOW.

That is what we must address and replace.

Urgency to recover is good, pressure to recover is bad.

Healing happens at its own pace, as athletes we must do everything in our power to promote it, but ultimately we do not have the final say.

Healing and recovery loves patience.

Patience gives us the space necessary to not only recover, but also to grow, develop, and expand.

Getting sick on the day I was supposed to return from injury was the ultimate test of patience. No amount of rehab was going to allow me to practice those two days; I had to rest and hydrate.

That frantic buzz would not serve me, it would have actually put me at reinjury risk had I given in and attempted to practice while being highly dehydrated.

I felt the frustration about to overflow, but my response had to be patience and it was obvious.

Allow my body to recuperate.

This moment where I had to show patience, taught me the importance of patience for our development to more.

Without patience our progress is unsustainable.

The journey will be constant frustration and wrestling for control.

There will be constant strife and unfilled want.

We will burnout because we do not allow the ample time for things to happen at their correct moment.

Speeding on the highway may get you to your destination in the short-term faster, but in the long-term it only puts you at a higher danger of a crash.

Proceed on your journey with an urgency to attain your goals, but a patience that allows them to materialize.

Time Potential

It can be easy to get discouraged if you are not where you want to be at the current moment.

Maybe your life is not where you imagined it to be.

Maybe you are not as good at basketball as you want to be.

The point is you are not where you want to be and that can suck…

Orrrrrrr it can be empowering.

All you have to do is recognize the potential you have, especially if you are young.

The craziest part is that your potential is not even your talent, it is your time.

We will become whatever we invest our time into. Our talent may cap the final level we can reach, but simply commiting to something for 5-10 years consistently and with conscious problem solving will put you in the top .01% of that thing.

It can be easy to get discourage at a young age because talent is the common separator.

The reason being is that none of the kids have put in real time yet. Time has yet to flex its muscles. If you are feeling discouraged, then understand this, and commit to the long game, consistency over time.

You will become whatever you put your time towards, and that is both a cool and scary thing.

As time passes you are forced to recognize that you are where you are because of how you invested your most precious resource, time.

So if you don’t like where you are now, the simplest change that you can make today is to begin to change how you are spending your time.

Reclaim your potential by reclaiming your time.

This will not be an instant process, but it will be an empowering one as you begin to acknowledge that your choices determine who you will become.

YouTube Drops

This is one of my favorite videos I have ever made, not because it went crazy viral or the cinematics were incredible, but because I felt it best embodied the Atypical brand. In this video, I share the 5 biggest lessons that I learned from my first 5 years of my basketball career. The video shows the importance I place on reflection as I strive to become the best version of me possible. Every experience is a chance to learn and a chance to become more.

I really hope this inspires some of you guys to reflect on your own journey as well as apply some of the lessons I learned on mine.

The second video is my first workout back from last week. It is a partner scoring workout with a cardio emphasis. The idea was to make this workout simple and useable for you guys.

Hope you enjoy!

Another Merch Teaser

This drop in November will be more than just shirts…

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about where I get my paisley shorts that I wear in almost all of my videos.

No more questions… we decided to make some of our own:

The drop will have a re-drop of our first shirt as well as a new model… stay tuned for more sneak peaks of all the different colors of the shorts and shirts.

I’ll Leave You With This:

Patience my friend your time is coming.

But, I caution you,

Spend the time you have on things that will make you more like who you want to become.

You don’t want to be wasted potential.

You don’t want to be wasted time.

Go define your excellence today.

Live Atypical.

Trey