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Visualization for Athletes
Visualization is a powerful mental technique used by athletes to enhance their performance. It is a strategy that involves creating mental images of the desired outcome or goal, and it has been proven to be an effective tool for improving sports performance.
Motivation for Athletes
Motivation is a critical component of success in fitness and athletics. Whether you're a seasoned athlete or just starting out on your fitness journey, understanding how motivation works can help you stay focused and driven.
Pre-Game Energy
In the moments leading up to a sports competition, there is a mixture of emotions on any given team. Some players will be excited and giddy while others are nervous and timid. Many of these emotions are experienced as a result of stress, or lack thereof.
How to Recover from Training
By using these recovery techniques, individuals can facilitate positive adaptation to stress and continue to improve their performance in sports and training. Remember, recovery is just as important as the actual training itself; without recovery, performance and health will decline.
How To Run Farther
Running is one of the simplest and most effective exercises for improving overall fitness, but for many people, the thought of running a long distance can be daunting. Whether you're training for a marathon or trying to run your first mile without stopping, there are steps you can take to run farther and longer.
Lightning Safety for Sports
So, if you think lightning won't strike the athletes you work with, you're probably right. But is it worth the risk? Are you going to explain to the family and friends of the dead athlete how important that one training session was and why it had to happen during a lightning storm? Play it safe – play indoors.
Is Sugar Bad For Athletes?
In this day and age, there is no shortage of sugar slander. The uneducated health and fitness crowd has demonized any and all sugar and fails to differentiate natural sugars (fructose and lactose) from modified sugars (sucrose and added sugars). These self-proclaimed experts can create a lot more confusion than clarity and prevent people from advancing their health-seeking behaviors.
Service Mindset
In the book Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek discusses a story that involved the U.S. Military — specifically a U.S. Air Force pilot. The pilot was recognized for his bravery and his willingness to sacrifice himself for his team. When asked why the pilot would risk his life to save others, his answer was the same as those of many military members: because they would have done it for me.
What does Biofreeze do?
Ahhh, Biofreeze. The magic gel. Ask any athlete how it works, and you will get a very undeveloped answer. “You put it on your skin and your pain goes away”. Well, how does a gel that sits on the skin cure injuries that are deep underneath it? The answer is, simply, it doesn’t.
How to Hydrate
Hydration has become a bit of a comical concept to me. Cramping? Hydrate. Tired? Hydrate. Running slowly? Hydrate. What’s next? Want to be a millionaire? HYDRATE!!! Hydration has become the duct tape of sports medicine. Coaches (especially high school football coaches) love to yell, “WATER! WATER! WATER!” during every timeout and at the end of every quarter. While I agree that hydration is important, there is a lot of misunderstanding about how water works in the human body and how it can/cannot improve athletic performance.
1% Better Everyday
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. It is only when looking back 5 or perhaps 10 years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones become strikingly apparent.
Ice Ice Baby
Ice has been on quite the rollercoaster ride when it comes to support in medicine. The once popular treatment has recently undergone scrutiny, largely because of self-titled ‘The Anti Ice Man’ Gary Reinl’s publication ‘Iced’.
Good and Bad Foods
So, is an apple better than a bag of gummy bears? That depends on what purpose and service you are looking for. If your goal is to eat something delicious and to satisfy your cravings, the gummy bears probably serve that purpose better than an apple. However, if your goal is to lose weight by consuming nutrient dense foods that provide your body with everything it needs to operate efficiently, the apple is likely the winner.
Playing Through Pain
Pain is an infinitely curious subject. We, as a scientific community, know so little about the phenomena. Pain's most objective measure to date is through the Visual Analog Scale – a diagram that shows 0/10 pain with a smiley face and 10/10 pain with a crying face.
Success requires no apologies. Failure permits no alibis.
The basketball legend Kobe Bryant once said, "When we are saying this cannot be accomplished, this cannot be done, then we are short-changing ourselves. My brain, it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I have to sit there and face myself and tell myself, 'You are a failure,' I think that is almost worse than dying.".
Extreme Ownership
By taking lessons he learned while serving abroad in the military and applying them to business in the homeland, Jocko explains how anybody and everybody can succeed in their field. The concept is simple: no excuses, no blaming, just ownership.
Protein
Nutrition can be confusing and stressful. Many people struggle with small daily choices that lead to health problems such as overweight, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Protein is just one small piece of the nutrition puzzle. But after focusing on balancing your calories and setting your macronutrient goals, you will be well on your way to eating a healthy diet.
General Nutrition Guide
One of my favorite articles of all time is: Twinkie Diet Helps Nutrition Professor Lose 27 Pounds. Its clever. It's funny. It's mind-blowing! How could someone eat nothing but junk food, especially sugary junk food, and not gain weight?
New Website Host
I began my website journey on a free trial with Ghost.org. They were great and they inspired me to create content over the past month. However, as the trial was expiring, I was comparing prices over various competitors. After some thought and research, I decided that Squarespace would allow me to create a more well-rounded website.