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COACHES CORNER PERFORMANCE NEWSLETTER Paul & Hank

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Contents PAGE 3

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Message From Coach Paul

Movement Lab:

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Abstracts from our EXOS team!

Con-Ed Opportunities

PAGE 5 Coaching Cheat Code of the Month: How do you handle mistakes?

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From Coach Daniel

PAGE 6 Nutrition Hack: Fuel Your Shift Like You Fuel Your Training

PAGE 9 The Library Check Out This Months Podcasts

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August As we build momentum heading into the second half of summer, let's keep our eyes on finishing the year strong. We've accomplished too much this year to take our foot off the gas. Let's continue showing up for ourselves, our team, and our members every day. A huge shout out to Daniel, Josh, Jammin, and Coach Mike G for their outstanding Q2 presentations. To wrap up August, we're excited to bring back one of our favorite events: the Dri Tri! Think of it as a triathlon contained within the four walls of the gym.

Paul Scott Performance Coach

Hank Dembrowski Senior Performance Coach

BACK TO SCHOOL

Con Ed CEU Opportunities In person: ● Athletic Low Back Pain: A Principles Based Approach to Conservative Management & Return-to-Sport Oct. 3rd-4th 2026 Los Angeles, CA Digital Options: ● Be on the lookout for an updated XPS from our EXOS Team! ● Bridge Athletics Conjugate Conference! August 7th 2:30 pm ○ Register here!

Workday Options: ● Workshop: Back Health

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COACHING CHEAT CODE OF THE MONTH

Dealing with Failure as a Coach and as a Person During my internship, my mentor told me I was going to lead most of the class after I had only been shadowing and coaching small sections. I had about 10 minutes to figure everything out, so I was looking up the movements, practicing them, and trying to think of how I would explain them to everyone. As you can probably guess, I messed up a few demos and my coaching definitely wasn't my best.

I was unprepared and nervous. What surprised me most wasn't that I failed, it was how I handled it. I knew I wasn't ready, but I still went through with it because I saw it as a chance to learn, even if it meant failing.

Walking away, I felt like I had completely blown the opportunity, and hearing my mentor's feedback was something I was just as nervous about as the class itself.

This stuck with me because at the time I was so afraid of failing in my internship because I wanted to impress others and leave a good impression of myself. I had a feeling it wouldn’t end well but I decided to go through with it anyway and this is the changing point in my personal life and career where I knew this wasn’t the last time I’d fail, but the first of many.

The failure isn’t what scared me, it was the possibility of failing in front of other people.

People I wanted to acknowledge me, members that I wanted a certain respect from them as a coach that is supposed to be more knowledgeable. The fear is what holds many people back from making the mistakes, from approaching the opportunity.

I feared failing others, failing myself, failing my mentor! Sometimes fear isn’t always obvious. Maybe you over prepare, maybe you don’t try a new coaching style, maybe you stay silent to not sound wrong. We attach meaning to these failures. Once I stopped treating failure as a verdict on my ability and started treating it as feedback, I began improving much faster.

An experienced coach and person once told me, “If you’re gonna fall, fall forward.” You can’t expect to grow if you never take the first step. I believe it’s better to take a step in any direction as long as there is action.

Contemplating between right and wrong, what’s better or worse, what has the highest chance to not fail, these are all things that lead to that inevitable paralysis.

No decision made is what stunts growth because even with that failure comes the opportunity to learn. If you don’t experience failure then there is nothing to learn from, no opportunity, no chances. Failing and not learning anything from it is the only true failure.

The reason that I view failure as a tool is because my mindset surrounding fear. Many view fear as something negative, something they want to avoid, something that is hard to deal with. And it can be. Every time you face your fear whether it be a physical or mental fear our brain gets a release of dopamine.

Over time, a person can rewire the way they think about fear from something negative and to be avoided, to an opportunity, a chance to grow. For me, this is what a growth mindset truly means and how it can be fostered.

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NUTRITION HACK

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Fuel Your Shift Like You Fuel Your Training

During our Q2 presentations, Josh gave a great talk titled "Fueling the Coach: Nutrition Strategies for Long Days, High Energy, and Better Performance." It was a great reminder that while we spend so much time helping members optimize their nutrition, we don't always apply those same principles to ourselves. For those who weren't able to attend the presentations, I wanted to share a few practical takeaways that can help all of us perform at our best throughout the workday.

One of the simplest ways to improve performance is to stop relying on hunger as your cue to eat. Busy schedules make it easy to skip meals, only to grab whatever is convenient once energy crashes.

Instead, fuel proactively by eating every three to four hours and including a balance of protein, carbohydrates, and fluids. Carbohydrates help maintain mental and physical energy throughout the day, while protein supports satiety and recovery from the constant movement that coaching requires.

As coaches, we often think about nutrition around workouts, but the reality is that our workday is a performance event. Long coaching blocks demand physical energy, mental focus, patience, and the ability to make quality decisions hour after hour. Research consistently shows that maintaining adequate energy availability and hydration supports cognitive function, mood, and sustained performance, making nutrition just as important on the coaching floor as it is in the weight room.

Hydration deserves just as much attention. Even mild dehydration can reduce concentration, increase perceived fatigue, and make it harder to stay engaged with members. Keep a water bottle nearby, build hydration into your routine between sessions, and pack snacks ahead of time so you're not relying solely on caffeine to get through a long shift. We ask our members to prepare for success every day. The best coaches do the same by treating their nutrition as part of their coaching toolkit, not an afterthought.

MOVEMENT LAB

Abstracts from our very own!

In this months Movement Lab, I wanted to highlight the work of our Coaches Dylan Dominguez and Eddie Jabbour. If you are not connected with them on LinkedIn please do! I am featuring a few of their studies this month. The CP Sports Complex recently got some new toys, so be sure to check out his research and find time to try out our new toys!

Velocity Drop Off: A Novel Metric to Assess Acute Neuromuscular Fatigue in Resistance Training A Novel Method for Predicting One-Repetition Maximum Using a Load-Velocity Adaptive Learning Algorithm

A Comparison of Power Cleans and Loaded Jumps on Power Output: A Retrospective Analysis

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THE LIBRARY

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Episode of the month: Sleep Toolkit for Optimizing Sleep & Sleep-Wake Timing

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Episode of the month: Building Durable Performance Through Leadership, Coaching, and Life with Victor Hall

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