Creating Safety: Tolerance and Athlete Training. Being an athlete, even the weekend warrior type, has always had its perks. Better Health, increased self-esteem, positive outlook on Life, and even an improved sex life! Compared to our couch potato relatives slowly dying of lifestyle diseases like Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease, an athlete comes out way ahead….
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Sports Drinks: How to Use Them Correctly
Sports Drinks are a booming business! Such popularity with the buying public, it is no wonder that these sports supplements continue to be touted as fantastic enhancements to a person’s exercise efforts. Yet the darker side to this industry is that the true efficacy of sports drinks is questionable. Artificial colors, unnecessarily high sugar content…
Inside the Mind of the Injured Athlete and Other Dark Places
Athletes are weird. We all start off like every other person in the world but something happens in our sport experience that changes us physically, mentally, and emotionally. Our sport stresses our bodies and our minds. For everyone who had tried to do something athletic and reached that point where something inside of us says…
Sorting Through the Hype: Choosing the Right Sports Drink
Why use sports drinks? These nifty inventions, besides making their inventors and distributors a handsome profit, do actually help athletes of all levels perform well in their chosen event. So how do they work? Sports drinks, as their marketers trumpet in their advertising, provide replacement fluids and nutrients that are depleted in endurance events. What…
Creative Workouts: Cross-Training in Your Own Yard
Life is busy. Since we haven’t found the way to make more time, we make the things we do count for more. When it comes to our workouts, we create ways to train smarter. Part of everyone’s exercise strategy these days likely includes some form of cross training. Whether hitting the weights for some strength…
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