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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
Celebrate Your Victories
Uwe Hermann on flickr.com
Yesterday, I watched Turkey face off against Germany in the semifinals of Euro 2008. Two amazing teams, one hard fought battle down to the final minutes.
The game was a grueling competition, but I also looked at it as a celebration.
The Performance Life
Prepare For Your Big Shot
by wjarrettc on flickr.com
Before the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship began, Scott Piri's goal was to help players on the Turkey National Soccer Team improve their overall performance, including strength, stability, balance, power and endurance. He also aimed to make them more resilient to injury through intense and innovative training sessions.
The Performance Life
What to Eat at the Airport
Got Jenna on flickr
What's scarier than airport restaurants like Cinnabon, Chili's, Burger King or California Pizza Kitchen are the lines of people waiting to eat there.
The Performance Life
Music Recommendation for Runners
by edyourdon on flickr.com
I saw a runner today: Fit, decent mechanics. Then I noticed that her arm action on the right side completely changed. She was holding her iPod in her right hand, which added rotary forces through her right side, thus altering her gate.
The Performance Life
The World is Your Gym
iwona_kellie on flickr
I was listening to Paul Chek's nutrition CDs the other day, and Chek used the following quote from a nutritionist. "Most people are dead at 35, they just walk around for another 30 to 40 more years." The quote was intended to apply to most adults from a nutritional standpoint. I find the point both amusing and accurate from a physical standpoint also. By 35, most of the damage is done, and without an intensive exercise program, that's difficult to reverse.
The truth is that quality of life begins to deteriorate after 30 for many people due to lack of exercise. Activities that were once simple and normal become increasingly difficult. The sad part is that the deterioration doesn't become readily apparent until the 50s or 60s, and at this point it gets much harder to change. The baby boomers are fueling the personal-training business in an attempt to improve not only the length of their life but the quality. But the time to fight back is right now. Do not wait until you are 50, and try to undo 20 years of damage.
The Performance Life
5 Questions for Yoga Lovers
j / f / photos from flickr.com
I don't think I have a problem with the new "magic bullets" in fitness, yoga and Pilates as much as I do with the thought process of a one size-fits-all cures. Yoga and Pilates are obviously two different disciplines with one thing in common: Both seem to be taught and patronized by zealots who believe that their discipline of choice is "the key" to fitness. I can tell you that at least once a month I get approached by an acquaintance who knows what I do for a living who says, "We have to talk about yoga. You have no idea what it will do for your athletes."
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