- I think the most fun texts we've had
is when Gronkowski Tom texted me,
he said, football's fun again.
The cool thing about dealing with these guys,
they are just like you and me.
They're big kids.
They might be,
you know, superstar G.O.A.Ts.
It's the best ever.
It's a big 12 year olds.
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I'm Tom House.
I'm a performance analyst
that works with 3DQB
and national fishing association.
And last year I deal with rotational athletes.
The athletes we work with
will be everything from the elite in
majorly league pitchers, elite quarterbacks,
all the way down to the everyday kid
in literally and their families
with the idea that we're trying
to get them to perform
and be healthy
or whatever their sport is
as long as they play.
In this current climate
probably be only one on one instruction,
that I'm conducting right now,
is with Drew Brees
and it's because we're neighbors
out here in Del Mar,
but I am still with someone like a Brady.
We do talk.
we do Skype.
We do zoom.
He sends me video.
We're doing exactly the same thing.
It's just with technology.
At the end of a season,
all these players go through what
we call an active rest
and recovery stage.
When the season was over,
all of them take a break.
And just about the time
they would normally be ready
to start working again,
is when the pandemic hit.
The net result is what you
and I are doing right now.
The football
and the baseball athletes doing exactly
the same thing.
They're being homeschooled.
There's different types of training
there's block training,
there's random training
and there's deep training.
And deep training
is when you're actually working by yourself.
Those back to the good old days,
when a little kid was Shown,
a tennis ball against your garage door.
We give these elite athletes things
they can do by themselves.
And they learn more doing that,
because there's no judgment on app.
And if they have the rights that statistically,
if they're doing things that
are unique to their particular interpretation
of a movement,
they will learn more in deep training
than they will in a group setting
or where someone's actually evaluate.
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Moving to Florida has been an experience.
I don't think he's got a gym that he goes to,
but he's got facilities
in the house he's living in.
I think it's common knowledge
he's living in Derek Jr's house.
My guess is that Derek Jeter had a gym,
that's probably better
than anything I've ever gone to.
We probably communicate at least once a week
around what he's doing.
Tom has his guy, Alex Carrero.
Everything physical is with Alex.
Everything nutritional is with Alex.
So Tom doesn't need that for me,
all he needs is an evaluation
of his throwing motion.
When he sends a video,
I pretend like I've never seen him before.
They'll either text me
or leave me a voicemail
look, I just filmed about 20 throws.
Hey, have a look
give me a shout.
If you see anything
or let's talk this afternoon or tomorrow.
And we'll do it.
We look at initially his timing
and his kinematic sequencing,
and then the throwing variables
that most coaches would teach balance
and posture ,drive momentum, opposite and equal.
And then the throwing variables
that are quantified
and specific to him.
You don't have this capture in front of him.
I say, okay,
on your third throw to the left,
have a look at that.
Your front side flew up a little bit.
That'll just be my eyes talking
and I'll give him some of the cues
that we use in our vocabulary for his teach.
So it's just like being there except,
for when people are both looking
at video at the same time.
Because of the longterm relationship,
we have a vocabulary that works for him.
It's different than the vocabulary
that I teach for the Drew Grey's or whoever.
But around that,
there are things that he consistently
has to pay attention to
because when he originally wired his mechanics,
way back when it wasn't as efficient
as what he's got right now.
There's windows to trainability,
the first one to know is your nervous system.
It's neurological.
And the age that goes to that
are eight to about 13 year old male or female.
The second window,
is a strength window where it's muscle
that you're working on.
And that's 13 to about 18 or 19.
Then a third window of trainability
is skill acquisition.
When nerves and muscles can talk to each other
and that's 18, 19 years old,
till 32 or 33 years old.
And then the fourth window is skill retention,
but in their 40s skill retention
is trying to hang on to everything
that they've got to make them
as good as they are.
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Tom in his always happened Pattern
and repattern with the aging process,
he has to work on things neurologically
just like a 10 or 11 year old
might have to work on.
So I never disclosed
what an individual athlete is working on
with us specifically,
but in general terms,
it's what he needs to do
to be the best Tom Brady you can be.
I think the most fun texts we've had is
when Gronkowski,
he texted me and said,
football's fun again.
The cool thing about dealing
with these guys today
are just like you and me.
They're big kids.
Then they might be superstars G.O.A.Ts,
the best ever
to pick 12 year old.
Grok is the ultimate 12 year old,
32 year old superstar.
Grok is one of those guys in the locker room
or on the field,
that just has a great time playing.
And it's what we call the power of play.
It's always more fun to work
at something you're having a good time at
than it is to work at work.
You don't tell the kid to go out
and work at baseball.
Go tell him to play at basketball.
So Grok is the ultimate play guy.
With Tom and Drew and all these elite guys do,
they bring their receivers
with them because quarterback receiver
it's like pitcher and catcher
have to be like one mind to make it work.
He hasn't started throwing two receivers yet.
He's just physically preparing with Alex
for when he will be thrown into receiver.
And then we'll adjust.
We'll look at calendar
and make do with video until such time
as either I can get to him.
He comes out to California on a regular basis.
And a lot of times we'll meet
at a neutral field with his receivers
and then it'll be like business as usual.
But I think everything's supposed
to start big time in September.
So I'll probably see him early August
out here in California or back in town.
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Drew because I'm actually able
to be with him where,
you know,
approaching things a little bit different.
What is cross Pacific training?
We're going twice a week,
Tuesdays and Thursday,
and they'll go anywhere from an hour
and a half to three hours depending
on how it feels.
But that's our usual off season work anyway,
We're just doing it at his house now,
instead of out on a football field.
What we're doing is preparing him
to throw a football farther
at his current age than he's ever done before.
If Drew can continue
to stretch feel as a 41, 42 year old,
just like he did when he was 20 water,
20 dude.
And then you add in all the experience
and all of the things that he already knows,
it would be a 42 year old,
22 year old.
It's really hard to defend.
That's what our goal is for the opposite.
I don't know if you're aware,
but Drew is a world-class tennis player
in high school.
And I think one of the reasons
he's such a good quarterback,
is his footwork is just press pristine.
So one of the things that he's enjoying,
we put a tennis racket in his hand,
serving a tennis ball in person,
same activities,
throwing a football.
So he's getting work as a tennis player
for his foot work
and getting work with his shoulder,
with a tennis racket in it.
And it's fun.
Something different in because
it is a rotational sport.
It translates into throwing a football
to 75 miles an hour.
But I'm really amazed
is that a couple of his boys play lacrosse.
So he took it up
and he can actually do lacrosse right now.
Like I've been playing in it so long.
Drew's a great,
with all these guys are great athletes,
but it's a fun thing to do
that is cross specific for throwing football.
So a lot of our training,
has not been about throwing the football.
It's got working with other implements
from other sports that are specific
to what you do when you throw football.
We don't think specialization,
for a young athlete is good.
We recommend play all sports
as long as you possibly can.
But what we're doing with Drew,
who's in his fourth window of trainability,
which is skill retention,
or taking him back to his first one now,
but we have a 12 year old playing
as many sports as he possibly could.
And what happens with the neuroplasticity?
They pull stuff off the shelf and their brain,
and we'll repattern the nervous system
to be 14, 15 years old.
So we're having fun learning about this stuff.
And I think the athletes
are having fun with the work they're doing too.
So we've been experimenting with tennis stuff
and lacrosse.
You know,
he's got a big pool
and fouling around like a surfer in the pool
and then training with weighted balls.
He hasn't touched a football yet.
We learned that with Andrew Luck
when we were bringing his shoulder back,
that you don't have to have a football
to train to throw a football.
Throwing a one pound ball
it's just like throwing a football.
You use the weighted balls
to build a functional strength
and the accelerators, decelerators
to handle throwing football 60 yards.
Our testing has revealed
that if you can throw a one pound ball
X miles an hour,
'cause one mile an hour
is one yard with a football.
And Drew has been throwing
a one pound ball 61 miles an hour,
which means going to put a football in his hand,
he'll be able to throw
a football 55 to 61 yards.
Can I stand up and get something real quick?
Okay,
I'm back.
So this is how
we're gonna start actually throwing.
'Cause he doesn't have a receiver
and see it's a football with a blunt nose.
So he'll be throwing blunt nose football
into the balance back.
And that's how he's gonna
start his throwing process.
You throw into it,
it bounces back to me.
It's probably 10 yards to 20 yards
to start with volume
equals load frequency intensity and duration.
We might start off
with 30 to 45 throws 30 feet on the first day.
Besides all the other throwing activities
that we were doing with training.
And that would be the beginning
of his skill work.
This time of the year,
is ratcheting up his volume of work.
He wants to prepare his total body
for more than the season will
ever take out of it.
What we figured out with Drew,
is he will work really,
really hard except on Wednesday.
Wednesday is his active rest day.
The hardest thing that Drew
is convincing him that sometimes
the less can be more.
Obviously guys are insanely committed
to getting better every day.
And a lot of them at times will overwork recovery
just as important as preparation and competition.
So it goes,
prepare,
compete,
recover,
repeat.
There is your cycle.
And this goes with day to day preparation
in the off season
and day to day preparation in season.
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In the process of retiring at age 73,
as much as I enjoy being out there
on the road or whatever,
it's kind of tough for me to slow down
a little bit and you know,
the pandemic thing we're going through.
What it's done is it's sped up everything
that I had growing in motion.
The new app that we've put together,
it's called the mustard.
All our engineers,
have taken all the capture
that was done over 30 years.
Nolan Ryan's in it,
Randy Johnson,
all these elite athletes.
I think we have almost 900 major league pitchers,
about 110 NFL quarterbacks
got a thousand big league hitters.
All of this stuff is in the database
and literally using that data,
we're coming up with models
that can be delivered
and captured on a cell phone.
Everything that I'm doing with Bray, Brees
or whoever it might be,
the everyday parent
and the everyday athlete can access
the same thing.
So we're humanizing artificial intelligence.
We're reinforcing the power of play
or making sure that if an athlete,
bottles protocols that he can perform with elf
and get better at what he or she is doing.
I've actually gone through this in my mind.
I think we've learned how to deliver
if there's 120 million families out there
that have athletes youth people
in their homes,
I think we figured out a way
to access that 120 million families,
but we might lack an interpersonal connection.
We're making up for it
with the expediency of the internet.
So overall,
we're doing the same thing.
We're just doing it using technology now
instead of face to face.