Thank me later.
Today’s email won’t just be very short.
It’ll also be extremely useful if you mostly play on artificial turf.
Look.
No matter what position you play, soccer is a contact sport—even if some players take Oscar-worthy dives looking for penalties—so there’s a pretty good chance you’ll end up on the ground more than once.
That’s not a problem if you’re playing on grass like the one at Camp Nou, trimmed to perfection with the best varieties on Earth.
Watered with the exact number of drops from some hidden spring in a remote corner of the planet.
And kissed by rays of sunlight polite enough to gently touch every blade of grass so nothing gets irritated.
On a field like that, you fall and probably enjoy it.
But when you play on turf... different story.
There’s a good chance you’ll get home with 5 pounds of black rubber pellets in each cleat and patches of skin missing from different parts of your body.
I don’t know, Rick, that doesn’t sound like a fair deal.
But there you are every Sunday anyway.
Cursing the moment you step into the shower and the hot water hits those scrapes hard enough to make you think maybe it wouldn’t have been the worst idea in the world to let the other team score one more goal instead of throwing yourself into that tackle to stop their counterattack.
Well...
We can’t go back in time and stop you from diving in.
And we can’t replace every soccer field in the world so you stop literally leaving your skin behind.
But I can give you a solution so those battle wounds heal faster.
Write this down.
Natural aloe vera gel (half a teaspoon)
Carrier oil (6–8 drops)
Lavender essential oil (3–4 drops)
Just make sure they’re good quality and as natural as possible.
You can thank me later.
After you apply it to the affected area, and since you clearly know how to follow easy recipes, you might as well make yourself one of the shakes from my new guide.
At the end of the day, skin is made of protein too.
Your call.
My favorite, by the way, is the piña colada one.
Just saying.
¡Vamos!
— Coach AL
P. S. If you want to learn a bit more about supplements before using them in easy recipes, you can grab the bundle and get both for a lower price: Game-Changing Supplements + Protein in Practice.
P. P. S. Still not as good a deal as the one for people inside The Team, since they’ve already bought one of my guides before. But a pretty decent one.