Boredom Is Very Much A Part Of Success.
Penn State’s wrestling program has been the nation’s best since 2011. The NCAA National Tournament is the last one of the year, and whichever team wins that is considered the best in the United States.
Since nine years ago, the Nittany Lions have won eight national titles — they four-peated twice. Head Coach Cael Sanderson is widely regarded as one of the best US wrestlers to ever live as well. He went undefeated in college, something that’s never been done before, and won gold at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
In college, I wrestled for a few years, too. One winter our head coach was invited to go spend time at Penn State and he made a wild discovery about their training methods.
Every Wednesday, Cael puts his team through an insanely light practice. Each individual member of the team is told to go off and work on whatever they want to work on. It’s their day, basically.
Most Division 1 schools make their athletes eat shit, eat more shit, then eat even more shit six days per week. The practices are intense, the pressure is grueling, and it’s repetition, repetition, and more repetition.
Coach Cael knew that he needed to cut through the boredom once per week and allow his athletes to shake things up. As a former athlete, I can tell you it’s a brilliant idea.
In wrestling, you’re taught double leg takedowns, single-leg takedowns, high crotches, and all types of common moves. But wrestling is an art that’s constantly evolving, so new positions and situations arise every season.
Dealing with these new moves are actually quite fun as a wrestler. It’s something new. Instead of drilling 25 double leg takedowns, we got to play wrestle for 10 minutes and discover new moves.
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What I’m trying to say is, it’s a given at such a high level that the best of us will get bored. Coach Cael knew this, and he does things to make sure his athletes get new experiences to break up the monotony of practice.
He now has eight national titles in nine years. It seems to be working.