Hello all my Pickleball Joy Riders!
Welcome to the Monday Minute, a 60-second list of what I’m exploring and thinking about. Feel free to forward along if the pickleball spirit moves you. If you love to learn and you love pickleball, you may love this:
In my practice... PADDLE UP POSITION (PUP)
Look at this ultra-grainy photo of Anna Bright I screen grabbed. It’s about .4 seconds before she gets attacked. Where is her paddle? It’s UP, almost touching her chin! Our tendency (and mine) is to keep my paddle much lower than this.
Do you want better counters? I know I do. So much of pickleball is being “un-hit-through-able” aka unattackable. Get your paddle UP, like I’m working on, and watch the game get easier.
Don't miss Episode 13 of The Pickleball Breakdown: DEFENSE (premiered today 12/23!)
In My Ear: NO MORE BLUETOOTH!
Ok, I’ve finally capitulated to the science that Bluetooth headphones are probably very bad for our brains. In this video, Paul Saladino uses an EMF reader to show how our AirPods emit a small microwave's worth of EMF that runs across our brains. So I’m going “old school” and am back to wired! What do YOU think of Bluetooth headphones?
In my Diet: “Secret” Sources of Protein
So this is pretty cool, I added up how much protein I get in my smoothie every morning and it’s 47g! That’s 36% of my total goal for daily protein. Here are the ingredients listed by protein content. (P.S. I’m not hungry again until 1:00 PM when I start my day w/ this much protein).
1 Scoop of Paleo Valley Grass Fed Bone Broth Protein Powder: 18g
3 tbsp Hemp Hearts: 10 g
1/2 cup Cashews: 10g
2 tbsp Bellweather Farms sheep’s milk yogurt: 4g
2 tbsp Organic Flax Meal 3g
1 cup organic blueberries 1g
1 Organic Banana: 1g
If I’m playing a tournament and desperate for calories I’ll add one cup of whole milk (8g protein) instead of water and one whole avocado (3g protein & 25g fat)
Interestingly, you don’t realize (or at least I didn’t) how much protein can come from silly little hemp hearts and just a scoop of plain yogurt!
In My Mind: Year-end…panic “Build a business where if you went off the grid for four weeks, it would keep running," Tim Ferris. I'm not going to lie, I thought my “time off” during December would be a time to do this...but as my training has ratcheted up I'm finding less time to build the processes required to achieve Tim's wise words.
Isn't it interesting how we can be our biggest ally AND worst enemy? Like, Kristin and I can do so much stuff ourselves (and we pride myself on everything being "home grown") but that means we aren't realizing efficiencies.
So I need to keep trying to build processes and hire and outsource so that I can train harder, win more tournaments, teach more camps, create more and better content, and continue to film and edit not one but two podcasts. When I feel overwhelmed it doesn’t mean I’ve taken too much on, it means my process isn’t quite right yet. And that is, well…as encouraging as it is daunting.
Have you built your business(es) so that if you disappeared for four weeks it would keep running? If so, give me some advice, please!
In my feed: You know you’re sick when….
You know you’re sick when the higher level group needs a 4th and you don’t jump off the couch and sprint out the door—fever be damned!
Kristin and I made a silly little video with The Dink about this phenomena of “when the higher level group needs a fourth”.
You tell us, accurate AF or no?
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That's it for the Monday Minute. Did you like it? Should I keep doing this? As always, I love feedback and if you have any for me please tweet me @jillybpb or find me on Threads, too.
Happy Merry Everything, Joy Riders! See you next Monday. And look for a new "This Pickleball Life" pod out Christmas Day!
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Last week on the Monday Minute:
Some say pain is just weakness leaving the body. Meghan Callaway would probably say "Building strength is just tightness leaving the body." Mobility and strength are like two sides of the same coin. Since following Meghan's exercises, my hips "flex"ors are finally living up to their name.
So just remember, tight muscles = weak muscles. Don't just stretch, get strong.
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