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    Achievement Zones

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    This was a fun weekend my daughter was home for a wedding and Steve Odgers, a former athlete and a colleague with the White Sox visited. Steve now works for Scott Boras, the most powerful agent in baseball. He does the conditioning for Boras clients. In that capacity he works with some of the biggest names and highest paid players in baseball. The point of all of this is that Steve and I and then Kristen and I at different times on the weekend were talking about work, training, achievement and success. Here are my thoughts based on my conversations with them.

    Anyone can work. Work is not training. Training has a specific direction and purpose in pursuit of a specific goal. There are three training zones.

    Zone One is the foundation. This is where the athlete starts. They get familiar with training. They learn routine. The work is more general in nature. In essence they get in a comfort zone.

    Zone Two is the performance zone. Here they learn to be uncomfortable. They intensity is higher. There is a narrower focus.

    Zone Three is the high performance zone. This is the zone where many are called and few are chosen. The focus is lazer like. This demands the highest level of commitment. Everything here is purposeful, mindful and directed. There is no fluff. This is where the big dogs play.

    Progression from zone to zone is not automatic. There is no social promotion. Each step must be earned. It seems that the hardest transition is getting out of zone one. There are many million dollars athletes in zone one. They are simply getting by on ability and skill. The great one, the ones who achieve consistently at the highest levels live work and play in zone three.

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    Vern Gambetta

    Vern Gambetta

    Director at Gambetta Sports Training Systems
    Vern is the Director of Gambetta Sports Training Systems. He has been the a conditioning coach for several MLS teams as well as the conditioning consultant to the US Men's World Cup Soccer team. Vern is the former Director of Conditioning for the Chicago White Sox and New York Mets. He has lectured and conducted clinics in Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe and has authored six books and over one hundred articles related to coaching and sport performance in a variety of sports. He has a BA in teaching with a coaching minor and an MA in Education with an emphasis in physical education from Stanford University.
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