Watts Performance November 3rd 2025 🚀 Watts Weekly: Power 4 The Week Hey Reader, Welcome to Watts Weekly, where you'll find 4 ways to improve your training, mindset, and performance as an athlete. This week: How mice are like injuries, why your problems aren't going away, what to eat before games, and my reflection on the last five years of my life. 1. A Life Update. We've got mice in our house. A few weeks ago, we saw a mouse run across the floor. Stupidly, we didn't think much of it. A week...
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Watts Performance October 27th 2025 🚀 Watts Weekly: Power 4 The Week Hey Reader, Welcome to Watts Weekly, where you'll find 4 ways to improve your training, mindset, and performance as an athlete. This week: Why I hate taps, the lies we tell ourselves, my life update, and how you can join the 1% club. 1. A Training Tip Stop being so extreme. I hate taps. Not all taps, just the ones that give you two options: hot or cold. The hot one burns your hands. The cold one freezes them. So you bounce...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Watts Performance October 20th 2025 🚀 Watts Weekly: Power 4 The Week Hey Reader, Welcome to Watts Weekly, where you'll find 4 ways to improve your training, mindset, and performance as an athlete. This week: Stop trying to fix everything, why programs should be built for you, how I'm using isometrics, and one important question. 1. A Moment of Reflection. "Let it happen..." One of my goalkeepers was struggling in training this week. There was a free kick on the edge of the box, dead central....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Watts Performance October 13th 2025 🚀 Watts Weekly: Power 4 The Week Hey Reader, Welcome to Watts Weekly, where you'll find 4 ways to improve your training, mindset, and performance as an athlete. This week: You don't have to be lost, stop performing at your best, why always three, and why you don't need to force Olympic lifts. 1. A Thought I Had. The best way to explain my coaching programs. I help footballers get fitter, faster, and stronger. And I do that in three ways. To explain, image...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Watts Performance October 6th 2025 🚀 Watts Weekly: Power 4 The Week Hey Reader, Welcome to Watts Weekly, where you'll find 4 ways to improve your training, mindset, and performance as an athlete. This week: Stop making mindless decisions, don't let science hold you back, why I won't buy Starbucks new coffee, and how you can make even more progress. 1. A Point I liked. As long as you can explain the decision. "Hoof it." "Just kick it." "Clear it." We all grew up hearing these phrases on the...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Watts Performance September 28th 2025 🚀 Watts Weekly: Power 4 The Week Hey Reader, Welcome to Watts Weekly, where you'll find 4 ways to improve your training, mindset, and performance as an athlete. This week: Why football will always be hard, how to make better decisions, the advice my doctor gave me, and what makes footballers world class. 1. A Realization I Had. Hindsite is 20-20. I hate driving home from work at the moment. The road's being dug up, traffic's a nightmare. Every day I have...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Watts Performance September 22nd 2025 🚀 Watts Weekly: Power 4 The Week Hey Reader, Welcome to Watts Weekly, where you'll find 4 ways to improve your training, mindset, and performance as an athlete. This week: Losing muscle is easy, how to train through injury the right way, the danger of focusing on weaknesses, and why being a modern pro is harder than ever. 1. A Harsh Truth. It's really easy to lose muscle. Let's be honest... No footballer has every accidentally built too much muscle. Yet...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Watts Performance September 15th 2025 🚀 Watts Weekly: Power 4 The Week Hey Reader, Welcome to Watts Weekly, where you'll find 4 ways to improve your training, mindset, and performance as an athlete. This week: I got hit in the face, the worst position to be in, why your problems will never go away, and a nutrition hack you need to know. 1. A Life Update. I Got Hit In The Face. Two weeks ago, I took a ball straight to the face. Not unusual for a goalkeeper. But this one felt different. I was...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Watts Performance September 1st 2025 🚀 Watts Weekly: Power 4 The Week Hey Reader, Welcome to Watts Weekly, where you'll find 4 ways to improve your training, mindset, and performance as an athlete. This week: The mindset shift that changed everything, a special deal just for you, my debut podcast episode, and my go-to in-season training formula. 1. A Thought I Had. Reset Your Expectations. When I first started training, I thought something was wrong with me. I'd been training hard, but...
3 months ago • 3 min read