88: The D1 Experience ft: Grant Newell

Sports Mastery

THE D1 EXPERIENCE

THIS is what you can expect: 6 a.m. strength & conditioning Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Imagine freshman year, everybody’s partying and getting to know each other, and you can’t stay out past 10 p.m. You will do it and you’ll go to rehab after your morning training. From there, you’ll have breakfast with your teammates and then have class from 9 a.m to 1pm. class. In the afternoon, you’ll have a 1hr film session and then a 2 hour practice. After practice, which will normally be done by 6 p.m. you’ll have dinner. Then you’ll go to study hall at 7 p.m. After study hall you’ll have more homework. You might get to bed by 12:30 a.m. or 1.

You’ll do that four to five days a week.

In the offseason, you’ll commit anywhere from 20 to 40 hours [a week for practice, training, and film study] depending on the week. In season though, it’ll be easily 40, 50, 60 hours. Some folks might spend more than that studying the playbook and watching film. If you’re always thinking of “what’s the biggest return on investment for my time,” if you’re never going to play or get in, that can be a little disappointing!

Listen as GRANT NEWELL who played football at Oklahoma State University shares his D1 Experience. Grant shares his thoughts on:

• The recruiting process
• Inside the locker room
• Training Camp
• Redshirting
• Off-season Strength & Conditioning
• Studying film
• Gameday
• The Collegiate Classroom & Expectations
• Stress
• Social life

With athletics, there’s a regimen, there’s a schedule. There’s this path to be great: Practice, practice, practice, work harder than the next person, practice, practice, play the game. It can be scary.

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