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Mental Training for Performance: Your Secret Weapon is your Mind
13 August 2009 4:29 am
Editors Note: This article is written by David Hodgeson a Performance Coach, Business Architect and Advisor. You can visit him at I-Acomplish or read more about him on the About Page
Your secret weapon is something you already have unlimited access to, is more powerful than any supercomputer and can be honed to your every whim. I think you already know what I’m talking about. The answer is your mind.
Our minds perform the most complicated tasks without us needing to think about them. This autonomous control in life’s critical actions hints at the potential of our minds. They say we use around 10% of our mind. This has proven difficult to prove and disprove. What we do know is that the minds ability to adapt is huge. The potential of our minds is incredible and yet we know so little about it. The following example demonstrates what training our minds the right way can do:
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Tagged As: fitness, mind training, performance, psychology
Tips for Better Sleep: How to Improve the Quality of Your Sleep
27 March 2009 12:55 am
Editors Note: This post is written by contributer Andrew Verdon. Andrew has completed a Diploma in Exercise Science, Certificate IV in Fitness, Level 1 Strength Coaching Qualifications with ASCA. He is currently completing a Post Grad Diploma in Applied Science (Elite Sports Training) and will go on to do a Masters in Recovery.
This month we are looking into sleep and its importance to your physical and mental performance. Sleep is an important activity and crucial in the restorative process. Good sleep is vital for high performance; be it in business sport or life. As the levels of physical and mental stress increase so does the amount of sleep we need. However, sleep seems to be the first thing to suffer with many of us “burning the candle at both ends” with late nights followed by poor quality sleep and early starts.
We go through 4-5 stages when we sleep. The deepest of these is called the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. We cycle through the stages up to 6 times per night and each cycle takes 90 to 120 minutes. This is important to maintain your natural sleep cycles and help you wake rested and refreshed.
Tagged As: exercise, mental, performance, physical, sleep
Nutrition for High Performance: Carbohydrates are Good!
2 March 2009 5:39 am
Editors Note: This is a guest post from Olympic Athlete Michael Blackburn, BAppSci (Hons), PhD (Sports Science).
I’m writing this because too many times I’ve heard from athletes that ’sugar is bad’ or ’sugar makes me fat’. So I wanted to talk about some facts regarding the benefits of carbohydrates/sugars in an athlete’s diet.
With so many messages about diets in the general media it’s important for athletes to remember that they need an eating plan that provides high quality energy for training and competition, rather than follow diet fads of the general population.
Firstly, some important background.
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Tagged As: athletes, carbohydrates, diet, exercise, performance