AJ Bouye | NFL Cornerback: UNDRAFTED TO PRO BOWL, PUTTING IN THE WORK, THE BEST ARE COMFORTABLE WITH ADVERSITY, RECOVERY & PREGAME STRATEGIES, STAYING IN TOUCH WITH YOUR GOALS,

Chasing Edges

AJ Bouye is a Pro-Bowl NFL Cornerback, he has spent time with the Jacksonville Jaguaurs, Denver Broncos, and Carolina Panthers after spending his first 4 years with Houston Texans where he was signed out of University of Central Florida as an undrafted free agent.

On the podcast AJ dives into his mindset that drove him from undrafted free agent to earning a spot in the Pro Bowl in 2017. He talks on how handling mess ups are a marker of the greats in the game and the veterans he has learned from. AJ emphasizes staying close and in touch with your goals on and off the field, he does this in his morning routine The conversation then breaks into what would be his and Brian's advice to high school athletes, their best practices for recovery and performance preparation, the difference between NFL locker room cultures, and the pod finishes with a few stories and what he's learned from his time as part of an incredible cornerback duo Jalen Ramsey. Hope you enjoy!

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AJ BOUYE PODCAST NOTES

0:30 Unknowing Mentorship

1:30 Reading Books in between meetings

2:00 Learning from veterans

2:15 Learning outside of football

2:50 Balance of life outside of sport

3:30 Football is all known

5:00 It’s okay to not be an athlete, doesn’t take away athleticism

6:10 Learning to learn again

*6:45 Vision, realigning vision, staying in touch with your goals

7:15 Maintain structure for success

8:20 Purpose

9:23 You’re not fine, are you the same person better in 5 years?

*9:47 Measuring life in capability

11:07 Learning from Jonathan Joseph, Kareem Jackson, JJ Watt

12:35 Help and support are not yours to keep

13:00 Adding value to teammates

*13:54 Dealing with set backs, afraid of failure

14:14 Appreciative of failure, be comfortable with mess ups

15:27 Never going to master the game, forever a student

15:45 Failure is part of game, there is no perfect

18:15 Best athletes comfortable being uncomfortable

18:26 Learning new things, put in the work

19:57 Most important thing for high schoolers to improve performance?

20:29 Training attention vs distraction Rant

24:35 How to teach kids that social media likes hold no value

25:50 Meaning, attaching meaning

26:54 Don’t waste 9-5 of time

27:45 Creating and using time to get where you want to be

31:14 AJs best recovery tactics

31:45 Hydration

32:15 Dry needling

32:30 Prehab

33:10 Steam Room, Exercises

33:45 The bests prepare their job

34:14 Firing Pattern, firing inside out, feet active

35:00 Flying in doctors to invest in your health

*35:40 Lebron James spending on his body, reinvest back into your business (your body)

36:30 Trying to get your legs back

36:40 Chef, importance of nutrition

37:05 Hyperbaric Chamber

37:15 Sauna, help mitigate heart problems in African American community

39:00 Curiosity of High Performance

*39:25 Massage before Chiro, order of operations

40:27 Difference between culture Jaguars and Texans

41:45 More walk thrus, more mental reps

42:00 Coaching is a separator

42:50 Jalen Ramsey’s Process

44:25 The separator’s between the ears, confidence included

44:50 Fury vs Wilder

*45:10 Energy Conservation in Pregame routine