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The Performance Life
Mark Verstegen and a team of experts and writers provide useful strategies to perform great, while talking about their own goals and challenges as they practice the Core Performance tenets in their daily lives.
The Performance Life
Jen Freemas' Pregame Playlist
Meet Jen Freemas (that's her pictured above). Jen is a performance specialist for the Core Performance Center in Santa Monica, California and a former Track and Field athlete at the University of Massachusetts.
As you can imagine, juggling school, athletics and a social life got pretty hectic for Jen. “The music that I listened to helped to relax me and clear my mind," she says. "Track and Field is more mental than you might think."
The Performance Life
Getting Back to My “Drivers License Weight”
Warren Gorowitz
Age: 38
Hometown: Los Angeles
Occupation: Vice President, Ewing Irrigation Products
The Challenge
Warren Gorowitz spends 80 percent of his time on the road overseeing a company with 195 stores in 22 states, along with educating the public and government officials on water conservation.
That makes him a very busy road warrior who sometimes struggles to eat right and fit in runs. He belongs to two national gym chains, but admits he’s often inclined to wing it when it comes to his distance running. He entered his first half marathon (13.1 miles) having never run more than a 10K (6.2 miles) and embarked upon his first marathon in January 2008 having never attempted a distance longer than the half marathon.
In both instances, he finished the race but wondered how he might do by following an integrated training program. He also would like to get back to his “drivers license weight” of 172, which he’s listed during renewals since college, even though his weight has increased to 189.
The Performance Life
Dr. James Andrews on Youth Sports Injuries
image via flickr
Did you know that by the age of 20, a baseball player who has regularly pitched past the point of fatigue is a whopping 36 times as likely to need elbow or shoulder surgery as one who has not? This according to a report by the New York Times that underscores the importance of recovery and the need for injury prevention strategies and education, especially for the parents and coaches of our young athletes.
The Performance Life
The 120 Endurance Playlist
Want to improve your running performance? Try updating your iPod. British researchers found that the beats per minute, or BPM, of your music impacts your performance. They found that listening to songs that clock in at more than 120 BPMs increased running capacity by an impressive 15 percent.
The Performance Life
Food, Shelter… Racing?
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If you have participated in a road race or triathlon this year, you would never know that the U.S. economy is in its worst condition since the Great Depression. At a time when Americans are slashing spending in all aspects of their lives, attendance is up at marathons, 10K races—even triathlons, where entry fees typically start at $60.
The Performance Life
Let's Stop Trying to Raise the Next Tiger Woods
This is a video on how NOT to develop young athletes. We learned about it today in a newsletter from LiveStrong.com—only they appear to present it in all seriousness as an instructional how-to for raising superstars given the title, "How to teach kids to play golf."
While we certainly don't intend to bash LiveStrong or this coach, we had to share the video with you as an example of what's wrong with youth sports.
Here’s the problem: Most parents and coaches don't truly understand the complexity of what they're doing wrong. (And most sites that deliver this information don't get it either.) I don't mean to excuse them or vilify them at all, but it's a lack of understanding regarding neurological, mental and emotional development that has gotten us to where we are in youth sports.
The Performance Life
Why should Core Performance Center be featured at Twiistup?
We think Core Peformance Center should be one of the "showoffs" featured at Twiistup 6, a tech industry meetup on July 30th and 31st in Universal City, CA. Check out this video to see why.
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"Hitting either slice or topspin will take the pressure off and will force your opponent to have to make decisions about how to handle heavy, high bounces or low, short shots."
—Brad Dancer, University of Illinois men's head tennis coach in "5 Tips to Win a Tiebreaker"
"The biggest determinant of calorie burning is your metabolism. And the biggest factor in that is your lean muscle mass. Build more lean muscle, increase your metabolism. "
— fat loss expert Alwyn Cosgrove in "5 Keys to Fat Loss".
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"While alcohol can make you sleepy initially, it should never be used as a sedative because it disrupts your sleep cycles, especially REM. This stage is particularly important to athletes because it’s when you consolidate and commit to long-term memory what you learned during the day."
— from "6 Ways Alcohol Disrupts Performance".
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