Monthly Archives: September 2018

Fueling Guidelines That Are Easy to Follow and Incorporate By: Steve Born Proper fueling of the body prior to, during, and after exercise requires personal experimentation to find the ideal fit for you, the individual athlete. There is no “one size fits all” approach; we are all “experiments of one” when it comes to fueling during exercise. You need to determine, through trial and error in your training, what works best for you. However, there are...

It has been argued that modern day athletes are becoming faster, stronger and better every year. In one TED Talk, David Epstein compared Usain Bolt’s performance to Jesse Owens in 1936. Jesse Owens once had the world record for 100 meter dash, but if Jesse Owens competed at the same time as Usain Bolt, he would have been 14 feet behind Usain Bolt. We are living in a time wherein we have accumulated a complex understanding of sports science, nutrition...

Hit your peak and boost your game with these 10 pro tips designed to help you maximize your athletic performance! OK, so maybe you're not an Olympic athlete. Maybe your dreams of playing in the NBA died when you realized 5-foot-8 is the tallest you'll ever be. (No offense to Nate Robinson, of course.) Heck, let's say your athletic endeavors only go as far as Sunday afternoon city-league soccer games. The truth is, no matter how much or how little...

Selling sports training to youth athletes is especially difficult because parents are the decision makers. Here's how to do it ... Sports performance training is becoming a necessity for athletes that want to excel. It’s no longer good enough to just be talented — athletes must be strong, fast, and powerful to get ahead of the competition. The only difference between selling sports performance programs for young athletes and selling personal training...

As you continue on your journey to become a better project manager and leader you may be considering which habits to kick and which habits to start embracing. But you are also aware that your good intentions - and new habits - may not stick. In order to create a new habit and achieve your goals, you have to change from the inside out. You have to take control of your internal world so that your thoughts and feelings can positively influence...

It might be the ENTP in me, but I get both impressed and wierded out by how quickly humans build certain technologies. I recently learned that we’ve had an autopilot feature on airplanes for over a hundred years. Which is crazy to me, but understandable. Apparently flying is seriously mentally exhausting, and so autopilot was invented just nine years after the Wright Brothers’ famous flight. Granted, it was pretty simple by today’s standards. It registered...