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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
Rave Reviews from CES for adidas miCoach
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A new coaching tool from adidas, called miCoach (pronounced “my coach”), has made a huge splash at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
miCoach is the latest—and most impressive—in an ever-expanding market of personal training gadgets. It lets you set a goal (say, run a 5K or lose weight) and then provides real-time audio coaching.
The Performance Life
In Case You Missed It...
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With the holiday season in full swing, we know you're busier than ever. So we pulled together our top recipes, tips, and workouts from the past month to help you stay on top of your health and performance.
The Performance Life
Hardcore Performance Playlist
Julianne Erikson is a performance specialist at the Core Performance Center in Santa Monica, California. She spends her day motivating the members and helping them train as efficiently as possible. But who's job is it to motivate her? That's where her intense playlist comes in handy.
"Most people wouldn't expect me to like the type of music that I do, even after they get to know me," says Erikson. "My style in general is definitely rock, but it's usually not as hard as my workout stuff."
The Performance Life
New Book: The Brown Fat Revolution
James Lyons would seem like an unlikely person to write a book on nutrition and exercise. After all, as a plastic surgeon, he’s often approached by people looking for quick-fix solutions after neglecting both areas.
But after spending nearly three decades as a surgeon, Lyons has developed an interesting perspective on fat. When working on patients who have adhered to a healthy lifestyle, he notices their fat is leaner and browner in color. Those who have followed poor diets and failed to exercise have yellow, “greasy” fat.
The Performance Life
October's Top Stories
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With the days getting shorter and so much to watch on Hulu, we know how challenging it can be to keep up with your health and performance. So we've rounded up our most popular tips, recipes and workouts from the past month to help you stay current.
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
Dr. James Andrews on Youth Sports Injuries
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
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?
The Performance Life
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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