Short, direct answers to the questions student-athletes ask about training, school, recovery and pressure. Each answer is reviewed by Rhema Adelaja.
Training & Habits
Usually no. When you travel to compete, protect that time so you arrive ready: music, quiet, or a conversation that has nothing to do with school. When you travel to school, use the time to study.
Time & Structure
Build two plans, a normal week (Version A) and a harder week (Version B). On Sunday night, decide which kind of week this really is before you commit to what gets done.
Time & Structure
Put every competition, deadline and exam on one timeline. When both sides of your life are in one view, you can see a clash early enough to move work.
School & Focus
Set an outcome before you start, not only a time. A specific finish line, like "finish twelve practice questions", tells you when the session is done.
School & Focus
After a study session, assignment or exam, ask the same three questions you ask after training: what worked, what did not, and what changes tomorrow. It takes about eight minutes.
Recovery & Energy
Decide once. Make a standing decision for each thing that repeats, such as your pre-training meal, your first study task after school and your order of operations on competition day.
Time & Structure
Build your study schedule from the fixed parts of your week outward. Put school, training, competitions and sleep in first, then fit study blocks into the gaps and set a hard stop time so homework does not cut into your sleep.