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Tony Stewart on Taking Charge
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Everyone thinks they can run a company better than the boss. That is, until they become the boss of that company—or start their own.
Making that transition into an ownership or supervisory role can be difficult, especially in a dark economy. It’s even more of a challenge if you’ve been perceived as a problem child employee at times in your career.
All of which makes Tony Stewart’s first-year performance as an owner-driver on the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit all the more impressive. Through July, Stewart is in first place in the Sprint Cup standings. Ryan Newman, his Stewart-Haas racing teammate, is seventh.
The 38-year-old Stewart spent 12 years with Joe Gibbs Racing, winning two Cup titles. As a young driver, Stewart was best known for clashing with opponents and the media. He’s matured in recent years, becoming a gregarious, self-deprecating elder statesman of sorts. Throughout this season, he’s offered advice on making the transition from employee to owner.
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Secrets of Strength and Patience from Jim Rice
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Imagine retiring around the age of 40 after a successful career spanning two decades. After five years, you’re eligible for a distinguished honor that not only will validate your career in the minds of peers and the public but also boost your retirement income.
Once a year, a committee considers your name during a secret ballot. For fourteen years, you fall short of election, though each year you come a little closer. The frustrating thing is that there’s nothing more you can do to add to your career, which with each passing year fades a little further from public memory.
Finally, in your fifteenth and final year of eligibility, you receive the honor. How do you respond? How do you maintain a positive mindset during the long, exhaustive wait? During those years, how do you reconcile the value of your accomplishments on a personal level to the way they’re perceived?
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Rickey Henderson’s Still Training
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Rickey Henderson will enter the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend as the greatest leadoff man in the history of the game, the all-time leader in stolen bases, walks, and runs scored.
Henderson played for a whopping 25 seasons, from 1979 through 2003, and never announced his retirement. Elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot after the mandatory five-year waiting period, he said recently that had he retired earlier—and not at the age of 44—he might have attempted to become the first player to make a comeback after his Hall of Fame induction.
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Marilu Henner’s Advice for Making a Change Today
Marilu Henner is perhaps best known for her roles on television series such as “Taxi” and “Evening Shade,” but over the last decade has taken a more prominent role as a health-and-fitness guru. The 57-year-old actress, who has appeared recently on Celebrity Apprentice, says she feels better than she did in the late 1970s when she played sexy cabbie Elaine Nardo on Taxi.
Henner has provided health and fitness insight to thousands through her best-selling books, hosting the TV program Shape Up Your Life on FitTV and The Discovery Channel, and by dispensing advice on her Web site, www.Marilu.com.
In her latest book, Wear Your Life Well: Use What You Have to Get What You Want, she challenges readers to break out of the routine of their lives and leverage their experiences to perform better in the rest of their lives. She expanded on some of those thoughts in an interview for Core Performance.
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5 Training Secrets for Triathletes
Pro triathlete Jessi Stensland training at Athletes' Performance in Arizona
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If there’s anyone who understands the tendency of triathletes to overtrain and punish their bodies, it’s Jessi Stensland. When the professional triathlete came to Athletes’ Performance several years ago, she was on the verge of giving up her beloved sport because her body was in so much pain. Instead, she followed the same approach used in Core Performance programs to get back in the game and enjoy some of her best performances.
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Mark Martin's Longevity Roadmap
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With young NASCAR drivers like Joey Logano rising fast, it’s easy to underestimate experience. Or fitness, for that matter. But at age 50, when most drivers have handed over the wheel, Mark Martin is still racing strong. At just 5-foot-6 and 130 pounds, he’s among the smallest drivers and attributes his longevity to a conditioning program he adopted more than 20 years ago after purchasing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding.
For years, he tried to keep his conditioning a secret, not wanting his competitors to find out what was giving him the strength and endurance to thrive on long Sunday afternoons of racing in temperatures that average 130 degrees in the car.
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Tiki Barber's New Workout Plan
Two years ago, Tiki Barber walked away from the NFL at the top of his game, still one of the league’s best running backs at the age of 31. He left the balance of a lucrative contract on the table, stepping away one year before the Giants won the Super Bowl.
Barber had prepared himself well for his next career, spending his off days for seven seasons working in a variety of media endeavors. As a result, there was a bidding war for his services the moment he retired.
These days, he works for NBC in a variety of roles. He contributes to the network’s NFL coverage, but spends more of his time working for The Today Show, Dateline, and MSNBC on political and feature stories. Along with his twin brother, Ronde Barber of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he’s co-authored five children’s books and even recently released his own fitness book, Tiki Barber’s Pure Hard Workout.
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