Anxiety
How Your Mood Can Affect Your Sports Performance
Every good athlete knows that it takes more than physical stamina to succeed. Along with developing your muscles, reflexes and physical capabilities,...
How America Killed Play—and What We Can Do to Bring it Back
In our last piece from our interview with play expert Dr. Peter Gray, we outlined the five criteria of play. For an activity to truly be considered play, it must: [...]
How to Manage Sports-Related Anxiety
At some point in your athletic career you will experience stress, good or bad. The good stress prepares you, makes you eager to learn more, eager to...
How to Harness Coffee’s Sports Performance Benefits
Caffeine is a legal performance enhancing drug, in fact, it's even on the WADA's monitoring program for possible in-competition abuse. Caffeine has been...
Solidify Strength Gains With This 3-Minute Cooldown Routine
Gains are not made in the gym. Gains are made hours after the gym, when your body is in recovery mode, refueled, and rested for optimal adaptation. So...
3 Strategies to Reduce Stress and Increase Athletic Performance
Sometimes the most difficult opponent an athlete faces is stress. Armed with the ability to attack quickly and powerfully, stress can hinder an...
Growth Mindset: How to Think Like a Champion
The mindset of a Champion The mindset of a champion has a very specific way of working and it is a way you can learn and replicate. In her book Mindset,...
3 Reasons Why You Should Take a Fish Oil Supplement
Athletes and those who train on a consistent basis face the challenges of dealing with joint and muscle soreness, psychological stress, and recovering...
View With Your Crew: Hugh Jackman’s ‘Prisoners’
Oscar nominees Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal star in the crime thriller Prisoners. The movie follows Keller Dover (Jackman), a father who takes the law into his own hands after his 6-year-old [...]
Visualize Yourself Winning, and You’re Halfway There
Today's elite professional athletes are the best of the best. Despite the many differences between the kid next door and elite professional athletes, the mental game can be the same [...]
