What is Be Pro Athlete?
Be Pro Athlete is by and for unorthodox athletes becoming the best competitive athletic version of themselves and outliers in their sport. Regardless of age, body injuries, history or conditions. Revolutionising sports by finding new ways, gateways, shortcuts and challenging established rules.
The core objective is achieving synergy between body and mind to tap-into an athletic flow state at any given time and perform at peak.
Performing not only as a result of countless hours, sweat, tears and blood that are indeed the building blocks of any athletic success, but also as a result of training smart and factoring in other components. According to Gladwel, 10,000 hours of practice is the magic number for achieving expertise in anything. Nevertheless, if practice hours are the building blocks of performance, what are your blocks made of? straw, sticks or bricks? In other words, if you have 10,000 practice hours under your belt, how many of those can you bring to your game?
BPA takes in all the other factors that make athletic performances a non-linear outcome. Because If athletic performance was linear and only correlated to hours of hard work and dedication, there would be no competition, the only competition would be in practice, who clocks-in more hours, end of story. You know the winner before the game begins.
BPA experiments, explores and shares techniques, approaches and knowledge holistically and scientifically from all kinds of fields and experts that have mastered their craft.
BPA is the study of the Mozarts and the Messis.
“David Epstein, in The Sports Gene, puts his finger on this detail (which is more than a mere detail), and suggests we consider chess. Chess is different from the violin. Since players are ranked according to a system of international point - 'Elo points' (named after the system's creator) one can know the exact level of a chess player, and follow their progression precisely. In 2007, psychologists Guillermo Campitelli and Fernand Gobet conducted a study of 104 players of different levels. An average player has around1,200 Elo points. A master has between 2,200 and 2,400. A grand master has over 2,500. They saw that to reach the threshold of 2,200 points and become a professional took an average of I1,053 hours. A bit more than the 10,000 hours for musicians. Where it gets complicated is that according to individuals, the number of hours they have spent varies from 3,000 to 23,000. Twenty thousand hours' difference, or twenty years of 'purposeful practice'! Some people need to train for eight times longer than others to reach the same level. There are also players who tot up 25,000 hours without reaching master level. And there is no guarantee they will ever reach it.
It's the same in sport. A study of triathletes shows that within the same level there are differences of a factor of ten. Some people had to train ten times more than others to reach the same standard.”
-Ollivier Pourriol, The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard