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Let's Play: The Athlete Performance Podcast
Let’s Play is an athlete performance podcast for driven athletes who know that becoming better takes more than practicing their sport.
Hosted by former Division I and II college athlete and Athlete Performance Coach Jojo Allred, the podcast explores the five areas that shape performance: mindset and motivation, nutrition and fueling, recovery, strength and conditioning, and daily habits, routines, and goals.
Each episode gives athletes honest conversations, practical tools, and simple strategies they can use in training, competition, and everyday life. From handling pressure and building confidence to fueling properly, recovering effectively, and creating better routines, Let’s Play helps athletes support every part of their performance.
If you love your sport, work hard, and know you’re capable of more, Let’s Play will help you become a stronger, healthier, and more complete athlete—one episode at a time.
Episodes
37 episodes
Let's Play: What To Do When You Want to Quit
I lost the love for my sport. I dreaded going to practice, I didn't want to be there, and for a while I was going to walk away from it completely.What turned it around was something my parents said: do it for you. Push yourself for you. ...
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Let's Play on the Bench (What to Do When You're Not Getting Playing Time)
Sitting sucks. You warm up, you're ready, and then you just watch — and you're supposed to be a good teammate about it.I sat a lot. And what it did to me was worse than the not playing: I stopped going hard in practice because it felt po...
Let's Play Without Negotiating
You decided last night. Then your alarm goes off and suddenly it's a whole conversation again.This one's about what that back-and-forth is actually doing to you. Why we do it, why comfort wins so often, and what changes when you decide o...
Let's Play: 3 Signs You're Overtraining
Everything feels hard, you're getting worse instead of better, and you've decided the problem is that you're not tough enough.Usually it's the opposite.Three signs you're doing too much, how to tell the difference between overtrai...
Let's Play: How to Talk to Your Coach
My entire first year at my D2 school, I would sit down with my coach for a normal one-on-one — nothing bad, just a conversation — and I would start crying. Out of fear. Every time. Over nothing.I wasn't always like that. In high school ...
Let's Play: How to Come Back From a Bad Game
Everybody has bad games. Nobody talks about the four hours after one.In this episode I go through what actually helps after you play badly — why you shouldn't try to fix anything at 11pm, how to separate "I played bad" from "I am bad," t...
Let's Play: What I Wish I Knew Before Playing D1
Recruiting is a sales pitch. I didn't know that at 17.In this one I go through the honest pros and cons of playing Division I — the stuff that made me better, and the stuff I genuinely wasn't prepared for. Hosting recruits on your only f...
Let's Play Rested
Eleven college basketball players slept two extra hours a night for six weeks and got measurably faster and more accurate. Nothing else changed.Coach Jojo breaks down what the research actually says about athletes and sleep — how many ho...
Let's Play Recovered (Tools/Hacks Worth It and What's a Waste of Money)
Coach Jojo has spent a stupid amount of money on recovery — compression boots, a massage gun, cold plunges, all of it. And the thing that helped her the most was completely free.In this episode she ranks every recovery tool from what she...
Let’s Play Fueled (5 Mistakes Athletes Make Before and After Practice)
Training hard isn’t enough if your body doesn’t have the fuel it needs to perform and recover.In this episode, Coach Jojo breaks down five common mistakes athletes make before and after practice, including training without eating, choosi...
Let's Play with Better Performance (What is the Point of Being an Athlete?)
What is the point of being an athlete beyond winning games, getting better, and performing at a high level? In this episode, Coach Jojo takes a bigger-picture look at what being an athlete is really doing for you—not only in your sp...
Let's Play With Discipline
Discipline isn’t about feeling motivated every day or following your routine perfectly. It’s about learning how to keep going when motivation disappears—and how to return when you fall off.In this episode, Coach Jojo breaks down four pra...
Let's Play With Self-Belief
There’s a difference between wanting to succeed and actually believing that you will.In this episode, Coach Jojo talks about what it means to have true self-belief as an athlete—believing in where you’re going even when your current real...
Let's Play With Coach Jojo (My Confidence Story as a D1 to D2 Athlete)
Have you ever felt like you completely lost your confidence in your sport? Well, you're not alone.In this episode, Coach Jojo opens up about going from a confident basketball player to losing all belief in herself during her Division I c...
Let's Play Without Validation
What if the reason you're losing confidence has nothing to do with your performance?In this episode, Coach Jojo dives into how the need for validation quietly takes control of so many athletes' confidence. Whether you're looking at your ...
Let's Play Brave
What if confidence isn't what you've been chasing all along?In this episode, Coach Jojo explains why confidence isn't something you wait for—it's something you build. Athletes often believe they need to feel confident before they take ac...
Let's Play with Mistakes
What if mistakes aren't as scary as you're making them?In this episode, Coach Jojo talks about why so many athletes fear mistakes and how that fear often has a bigger impact on performance than the mistake itself. Instead of trying to el...
Let's Play Without Overthinking
What if overthinking isn't actually the problem?In this episode, Coach Jojo dives into what overthinking really is and why so many athletes feel trapped inside their own minds during competition. Instead of simply telling athletes to "st...
Let's Play Like Yourself
Have you ever walked away from a game and thought, "I just don't feel like myself anymore"?Maybe you're still working hard. Maybe you're still showing up every day. But something feels off. You're overthinking, hesitating, second-guessin...
Let's Play Through a Film Session
Do film sessions make you anxious?Do you find yourself dreading them after a game because you're worried a mistake you made is going to show up on the screen for everyone to see?In this episode, Coach Jojo talks about why so many ...
Let's Play When Bored
Do you ever feel bored in your sport?Not because you don’t love it anymore, but because the season feels so far away, practice starts feeling repetitive, and every day begins to feel the exact same?In this episode, Coach Jojo talk...
Let's Play Without Mental Blockage
Have you ever felt so much pressure in your sport that it felt like you forgot how to play?Like you’re making mistakes you’ve never made before, overthinking everything, and suddenly not playing like yourself anymore? Almost like you’re ...
Let's Play Without Fear
What does it actually feel like to play in fear?In this episode, Coach Jojo breaks down the emotions, thoughts, and sensations athletes experience when fear takes over their game. Through 3 powerful questions, athletes are chall...