I’ve been helping coach my daughter’s track team and have noticed something. Our athletes are beating a lot of the other runners. Sometimes, it is because our athletes are genuinely faster. Other times it is something entirely different. One of the big reasons our girls are winning is this: Their opponents aren’t warming up properly [...]
My daughter and I went to the state track meet this past spring to watch one of my athletes run in several events. Natalee was running the 400, but was struggling. At one point, my daughter started saying, “She’s dying.” She was not wrong. […]
Professional athletes talk about it all the time, “Getting into the ZONE.” That magical feeling you as an athlete get put into when everything you do on the playing field turns out to be awesome! […]
It can be frustrating for an athlete to put hours of hard work in the gym prepping for their sport. But when it comes time to perform, you still aren’t making any ground on the competition. You just don’t seem to be getting any better. […]
I was all set to write a blog post on an entirely different topic today. An interview with an orthopedic expert I've been waiting to share, but then I read something in Sunday's paper that got me on a different mindset. On Saturday, OSU played a basketball game against some team willing to get crushed [...]
Last week I discussed how if you don’t eat and hydrate properly, then do a workout, you probably will get light headed and nauseous. This week, I am on vacation to our cabin in Canada. Don’t worry I’m not working, I pre-wrote this post. […]
When we get athletes who want to speed train with us, the most important change they want to see happen is well…run faster. There are some other changes that happen as a side benefit. One of them being preparing the body so that the chance of injuries is lessened. It doesn’t matter how good of [...]
I had a conversation with someone the other day talking about what separates the good from the great athletes. You see a lot of people out there with similar athletic abilities, but what really separates someone like Michael Jordan from just another basketball player that can leap high and hit a jumper? They always say [...]
How is this for a coincidence? Last Thursday, I wrote a blog post on how to eat properly for your August football practice (which you can click here to read). That morning the Columbus Dispatch has an article about the new dietician for the Ohio State football team that is really changing how the football [...]
Recently I discussed how to stay hydrated in extreme heat. It seemed to be a pretty popular topic, probably because we’re in the middle of summer and it is top of mind. If you aren’t properly hydrated you can become dizzy and start losing muscular function. You will also start to feel that way if [...]