Nick Humphries

I just met with @garyvee and told him about 3 ways he changed my life: 1) 2017 - daily vlogging 📹 I’d been grafting away at my soccer company making social content to promote it on snapchat. I’d upload the snap stories to YouTube with a SEO title. I’d do this in mornings, lunch breaks and evenings whilst working a banking job at UBS. From 2014-17, it took me 3 years to get to 10k subs on my biggest channel then, YouTube. This is around the same time Gary was doing DailyVee which was a daily vlog of his life/meetings/etc filmed by @davidrocknycz, which I watched religiously. Inspired by creators like him and @Casey I launched the 100 days to pro contract daily series. Daily documenting of my journey using my own app, Train Effective. It blew up. I got it to 50k YouTube subs and millions of views (big deal at the time)! 2) 2018 - hacker house 🏠 Gary once said something like “live with 10 roommates in a shitty apartment and build your startup” So that’s what I did. I quit my cushy banking job, moved away from gf and moved to London - the world’s capital of soccer. With the savings I had and bit of traction generated from the vlog, I went all into getting 4 other early believers who knew me from social media and put a deposit down to rent this North London loft house. So everyone flew from all over the world and we lived, worked, built and played soccer at the Effective House. The main thing we did here is build the app. The word spread. Top designers and coders worked for basically free in return for free accomodation and food. After 2 years of hard graft, this resulted in us launching the app with none other then Manchester United great, Rio Ferdinand who generously contributed his time and image to helping us. We launched to his millions of followers and credibility on socials. Forbes, Sportbible, etc they all covered us. 3) 2020 - tiktok 📱 “Post 4x a day on TikTok and never look back” - something Gary said We were posting on IG, FB and YouTube in late 2019 and we were growing.. slowly. Still at around 60-70k total followers at this time and a couple 1000 downloads in TOAL of our app.. we were struggling to grow. Early 2020 I told the team - Gary’s a prophet, let’s follow his advice. 4x posts a day, let’s go! And we saw the results.. QUICKLY. Every week we were hitting millions of views and growing fast! To the point where we started getting thousands of downloads a week just from TikTok 📈 Today, we have over 4.5 million followers of the Train Effective brand, over 2 million downloads of our app. We do soccer camps too now and we’re getting 100’s of players fly over to London every year which is nuts considering where we were. New sports launching soon too. Consuming Gary’s advice over the years helped so much with where we are today. And it’s only the beginning. He’s extending himself through @veefriends and building something bigger than himself. Whatever Gary does next, you can be sure I’ll be listening intently 😉 Great meeting you G 🤝 Anything is possible, let’s go! 🔥 🔥

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Imagine doing all this breathing and then missing .. 😶 .. Well this was Samu Aghehowa before SCORING his penalty in Porto’s 4-1 UEFA Champions League win over Napoli on Wednesday. I always take a few deep breaths before a cold shower or a river dip, so I can relate a little.. haha. We're seeing more and more of these mental/breathwork/visualisation techniques in sports now, it's fascinating to watch becuase a few years ago you would have been called out as a weirdo. I love to see the change. These days, people have breathing routines for everything. A stressful moment with their kids, or just sitting alone in the car after a tough day. And some of these routines look a bit weird from the outside. But for the player, if it helps them settle themselves and put the ball in the net, I doubt they care how it looks. Two deep breaths. Goal. Fair enough 🤷‍♂️

Miami.. see you next month! 🌴🌴🌴 @TrainEffective

This announcement really surprised me. Rafa Nadal joining the board of Real Madrid? 🤔 But when I dug a bit deeper, it started to make a lot more sense.. Here’s the interesting part. Could Rafa Nadal actually be a potential successor to Florentino Pérez? Pérez is now 79, Nadal is 40. And back in 2023, Nadal actually expressed an interest in becoming Real Madrid president one day. He was careful with his words, saying it wasn’t something he was actively thinking about and that he wasn’t even sure he’d be capable of doing it. But now he’s potentially joining the board. Interesting timing..! Of course, there’s the question of whether he’s actually qualified. He’s spent most of his life as a pro tennis player after all. But when you look at what he could bring to @realmadrid, there are a few interesting things: 🎾 Elite performance: 22 Grand Slams. Nadal understands what it takes to compete at the highest level, from player development and prep to dealing with pressure. That perspective could be valuable when discussing the club’s sporting strategy. 🌍Global relationships: Nadal and his team have spent decades building relationships with sponsors, investors and influential people around the world. Who knows what doors those relationships could open? 👔Reputation: Real is a club built around excellence, history and winning. Nadal fits that identity almost perfectly. He’s also one of the most respected and well-liked athletes of his generation. 💼Business experience: Nadal and his team have built the @rnadalacademy into an international sporting operation, with centres across multiple countries. He’s also been involved in other business ventures. And of course, he’s been a Real fan since childhood (I wasn’t aware!) But we all know being a legendary athlete doesn’t automatically make someone a great businessman. Running an international tennis academy is a completely different beast to helping lead arguably the biggest football club in the world. Which is why I’m really curious to see what happens over the next 5-10 years. Could this be the beginning of a natural succession plan? It’s purely speculation at this stage but I can see how it could make sense. Nadal could spend the next few years learning from the pres, understanding the club’s operations and gradually taking on more responsibility. It could be a lovely swan song for Pérez and an unexpected new chapter for Nadal. I certainly never imagined that one of the greatest tennis players of all time could one day end up leading one of the biggest institutions in football. Would be quite a story if it happened. What do you think? Could @RafaelNadal actually make a good Real Madrid president?

i wonder if jose will give harry a call tonight

At first I thought this was AI 😂 This is actually a basketball court inside the Crumbl founder’s home, powered by millions of LEDs underneath a glass floor. You can change court markings, draw on the floor and display interactive graphics. Imagine the possibilities for coaching and training. It’s already being used in professional basketball, although there are still some issues with grip and a reported $2.5m price tag. Makes me wonder what sports training facilities will look like in 10–20 years.

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Train Effective Camp mentality 😤 “Don’t panic, because once you panic, that’s when trouble starts.” Simon setting the standards at our London camp. Next camp: Miami, starts Dec 27, 2026 🇺🇸 Find out more by searching: "train effective camps"

This club has a stadium that holds just 2,431 fans... Yet they're guaranteed to earn at least €5 MILLION from football this season. HOW!? Meet: @scu_torreense A club located about 35 miles north of Lisbon that hasn't played top flight footy since 1992. Last season, they pulled off something extraordinary. They beat giants @SportingCP 2-1 in the Portuguese Cup final, becoming the first 2nd-division club to win the competition. That victory earned them €325k in prize money but, MORE importantly, secured qualification for the @EuropaLeague And that's where things get interesting financially.. According to their 2024/25 accounts, Torreense generated approximately €3.4 million in annual income. Their Europa League qualification alone is expected to bring in at least €5 million, almost 1.5x their previous annual income! And there's potentially much more to come. They've already won their opening European match away against @LillestromSK in Norway and tonight they're hosting prem side @SunderlandAFC. Well.. actually.. technically they're not hosting them at home. Their 2,431-capacity stadium doesn't meet UEFA's requirements, so they're having to play their European home matches almost 50 miles away in Leiria. So imagine being a 2nd div club playing against the B teams of Benfica, Porto and Sporting one week, then facing Sunderland, Celtic and Real Sociedad in Europe. One other detail I found interesting.. Only 4 of Torreense's 32 senior squad players are Portuguese. They've recruited 19 players from 10 different countries this summer. Having run our @TrainEffective Elite Camp in Portugal in 2025, I've become increasingly interested in the opportunities Portuguese football offers international players. Portugal is an attractive destination for foreign players looking to build a career in European football because of their more relaxed rules. But all in all, Torreense are a fascinating example of what can happen when a relatively small club gets its recruitment right and goes on an extraordinary cup run. Their CEO has already spoken about using the European windfall "responsibly", investing in the club's infrastructure and building something sustainable. I hope they do. Because as incredible as this season already is, the opportunity to build something that lasts beyond it might be even bigger! Football really does produce some incredible stories. Fascinating!

Simon stops the session over something tiny. Where are you looking? Why the extra step? Can you do it cleaner? That level of detail is hard for young players to see themselves.

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