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Question
I want to start off by thanking you for taking the time to reading this message. All my life i have been told that I'm not fast enough, strong enough, or good enough to make it to college or even start in my own high school. I need to know what exercises i should do to become faster since there is no track team at my school.

Answer
Hello Aaron,

I'm going to answer your question from the mental game perspective. For the physical training perspective, please ask one of the other experts on this forum, they'll be able to help you better than me.

The first thing you need to do is do a personal reality check.  Ask yourself these questions (and write down the answers):
1) What do you REALLY want?
2) What will that do for you (what would you get out of it)?
3) How badly do you want it?
4) Are you willing to pay the price to get it?

A lot of times we hear destructive, negative comments while growing up.  Sometimes they are meant "kindly" or maliciously.  Sometimes they are deliberately hurtful or "just saying what you need to know."  You know what?  A lot of negative comments come from people's failed dreams and their own insecurities.  There are MANY competitors in many sports who have overcome adversity to triumph, because they believed in themselves.  

Maybe you have the physical capability for high school and college football, and maybe you don't, I don't know.

What I DO know is that if you really want it, and don't try with everything you've got, you may always wonder "what if you'd really tried, could you have made it?"

Do an Internet search for "athletes who overcame adversity" and you'll discover that you are not alone.  Read those stories and take them to heart.

And get out there and do it, because no one has the right to tell you what you can't do.

Good luck and let me know how it goes.

David

David Kenward, The Mental Coach
Sacramento, California
http://www.thementalcoach.com
Win the Mental Game: Perform better under pressure in any sport