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Prepare for challenges and stay motivated, focused, and in control with the tips in this blog.
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5 Ways to Improve Your Focus
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The digital media era has made it more difficult to focus on the task at hand. Many assume multitasking and the constant digital chatter is a desirable part of the new workplace. But Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D., founder of the Center for Brain Health and author of the new book Make Your Brain Smarter, suggests all this digital noise actually is making us dumber, rewiring our brains in a negative way so we’re less effective and less productive. Here are five things she suggests to get more focused and train your brain.
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Simple Change: Keep a Food Journal to Lose Weight
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Keeping a food journal can help you lose more weight, according to a new study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics [ABCNews].
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The Mindset of an Olympian
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Missy Franklin has taken an unconventional route to becoming an Olympic gold medalist at this summer’s Olympics in London. She’s remained in the same Colorado swim program since the age of 5 rather than joining an elite swim club in a warm-weather state, where she might have trained with more swimmers at her level. Todd Schmitz, the only coach she’s ever had, limits her to swimming two hours a day, five or six days a week. She swims between 4,000 and 5,000 yards a day, which is less than half the yardage logged by college swimmers, let alone those with Olympic aspirations. In the summer months, Schmitz does not even hold Saturday morning practices, which are typical for competitive child swimmers.
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What’s Your Healthy Tipping Point?
Caitlin Boyle was just in her early 20s when she reached what she calls her “healthy tipping point.” A friend challenged her to give up the college lifestyle of partying and not paying attention to nutrition. That motivated Boyle, now 28, to take up triathlon and other endurance sports. These days, she attracts about 1 million visitors a month to her website, HealthyTippingPoint.com, and inspired the national “Operation Beautiful” craze where women leave upbeat messages on post-it notes for others to find in restrooms, locker rooms, and other public places. Core Performance spoke to Boyle about her new book, Healthy Tipping Point, and what impact a simple change of mindset can have.
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How to Make The Miles Go Faster
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One of the toughest mental training hurdles for aspiring marathoners to fight through is the dreaded “long run” each weekend. Most plans cap off a week of shorter runs with an increasingly longer jaunt ranging from 10 to 22 miles prior to race day. By breaking through not only physical but also mental barriers, the runner learns how to deal with fatigue and talk back to his or her body to get them over the inevitable psychological wall during the race.
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The Science of Slumps
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The next time your jump shot is off, your putts won’t go in, or you can’t buy a hit at your Wednesday night softball games, just be thankful that you’re not the Angels’ new $240 million man, Albert Pujols. Currently batting .196 with one home run and 12 RBIs after 35 games, the three-time MVP is in the worst hitting slump of his career. There is no shortage of helpful advice being shared on how to climb out of it, but maybe some recent research from Rob Gray, a motor control researcher, might help Pujols and the rest of us understand these valleys of performance.
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Step Your Game Intelligence Up
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For the first time, neuroscientists have found a link between general cognitive abilities and sports success. Swedish researchers concluded that soccer players who possess the ability to process information faster and make quick decisions have a leg up on the competition. The New York Times recently reported on this discovery:
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Study: Visual Illusions Improve Sports Performance
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If you’ve ever experienced the kind of day on the golf course where you feel like you’re putting into a thimble, take a moment to reverse that thinking. Your performance could be related to how you perceive the size of your target, according to new research from Purdue University’s Action-Modulated Perception Lab.
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Oversharing Can Sabotage Your Goals
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The acknowledgment people receive after sharing their ambitions can actually sabotage their end-goals, according to new research out of the Association for Psychological Science. That conclusion—which can be applied to fitness, diet, and other targets of improvement—is based on a small group of studies that found that university students put in less effort after expressing their academic goals to acquaintances.
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How to Fight Fatigue During a Race
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No matter how much training and mental preparation goes into an endurance event, there usually comes a time in every race where an athlete will hit the proverbial wall. At that point, with the body and mind wanting to stop, it’s tempting to bow out of the race. An athlete almost always can discover a second wind, though getting to that point can be a challenge. Whether it’s a 5K race, marathon, triathlon, or one of the popular new obstacle races such as Tough Mudder or Spartan Race, it helps to have a strategy to cope with the wall. We recently asked a number of Ironman triathletes from the Team Timex Multisport team how they deal with that challenge.
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