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Want to know how you can use sports psychology to reach your health, fitness and sports goals faster? Here are my top 10 mindset tips to help you build new motivation, confidence and major breakthroughs in your fitness and in your life.

Via Luis Valdes, Melissa Maxim, The New Media Moguls

Athletes can suffer from dips in form, periods where they compete poorly or struggle to train well. At such times, they will probably feel tired and may lack their normal enthusiasm for training; they may also have picked up a cold. Usually these are signs that they need to ease back on the training or take a rest. After one or two easy weeks, the athlete recovers and is back to peak fitness.

 

The scenario described above is considered a normal ‘over-reaching’ response to hard training. Evidence shows that endurance athletes are particularly prone to over-reaching dips in form that require rest. A prolonged period of tough workouts, particularly high-volume workouts, can result in reduced vigour and increased tension or depression in mood states. Muscle glycogen stores are depleted and resting heart rate rises. The testosterone/cortisol ratio is reduced due to lower testosterone and high cortisol levels. Microscopic damage to muscle also leads to raised creatine kinase levels, especially if there is eccentric exercise. These are all physiological responses to training. With rest, these changes go back to normal and athletes can even ‘super-compensate’, which means they recover from the stresses to develop even higher fitness levels than before.

 

Read more: http://www.sportsinjurybulletin.com/archive/overtraining-syndrome.html

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Darrelle Revis didn't exactly say yes when he was asked after Thursday's loss if the team still believes in Greg Schiano and the Buccaneers coaching staff.

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"In some ways, there’s always a spotlight shining on Rose, the Chicago Bulls homegrown superstar who painstakingly sat out all of last season with a knee injury while his team clawed into the second round of the NBA playoffs."

 

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"Derrick Rose has his head in the clouds. This isn't to say he can't concentrate, is irresponsible or is trying to make it rain meatballs. He's just able to jump really, really high. Always has been.

 

But just as Ricky Bobby wanted to go faster, Rose wanted to jump higher. So he did.Coming out of Memphis, he registered a "no-step" vertical of 34.5 inches and a max vertical of 40 inches. Prior to his ACL injury, he was soaring about 37 inches off the ground. Post-injury, he says he's at 42 inches, per ESPN Chicago's Nick Friedell, much to the dismay of opposing defenses everywhere."

 

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"The one thing that captivates the mind of a male more than anything else is an attractive woman that is also interested in sports, and not in a way that screams out they are faking their interest. Interest in sports from a female allows a male to relate to something that is completely normal to them (unlike talking about something such as shopping), and makes developing a relationship very easy. But too many times, a female will claim to be interested in what is going on in the latest sporting event, be it baseball, basketball or football, but they really know nothing about the sport when it comes down to it."

 

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Research and common sense tell us that top competitive athletes succeed because of their physical talents and their dedication to training. However, they also succeed because of their dexterity in dealing with the psychological pressures of a sport. In short, mental toughness and resilience are tremendously important for any athlete aiming to be the best in a sport.

Read more: http://www.forbes.com/2010/09/17/executive-mental-toughness-leadership-managing-athletes.html

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Steve Smith and Aqib Talib battled on the field and Smith continued the back-and-forth with some trash talk after the game.

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Caffeine is commonly used as an ergogenic aid by many athletes due to the almost unequivocal support in the literature on the beneficial impacts of ingesting caffeine on submaximal performance.  Its effects have been found to improve upon many paradigms including aerobic, anaerobic and muscular strength through the enhancement of both mental and physical performance (Killen et al, 2013).

Studies have shown that, as compared with a placebo, caffeine improved performance by approximately 11%, however, this finding does not extend itself to exercise termination, as this typically coincides with physiological limits such as maximal oxygen consumption or maximal heart rate, which have not been found to be interfered with through the consumption of caffeine (Doherty  Smith, 2005).  The purported mechanisms behind this have spanned from the augmented mobilisation of free fatty acids and associated glycogen sparring, sympathetic nervous system enhancement, reduction in central fatigue, depletion of neuromuscular conduction block and a potentiation of muscular force output for a given input.  However, the results behind these proposed mechanisms remain equivocal, with each lacking consistent support (Doherty & Smith, 2005).

Read more: http://www.thesportinmind.com/articles/caffeine-consumption-and-perceptual-response-in-sport/

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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Let’s start with a fact: Human beings, technology, Mother Nature are not perfect. Consequently, in sport and the workplace, as in life, you can bet that things will go wrong at some point. We will have bad days (along with the good!), matches that go terribly wrong, weeks when the weekend can’t come soon enough, and general slumps in performance. Sometimes, even when we do our very best, there is no guarantee that will be enough. So, what do we do when things go wrong? How do some people seem to rise above and come out the other side better for it? The answer is…RESILIENCE.

 

 

Read more: http://believeconsulting.co.uk/blog/35-blog/87-sport-psychologists-in-london-resilience-in-sport-and-the-workplace
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"Derrick Rose has his head in the clouds. This isn't to say he can't concentrate, is irresponsible or is trying to make it rain meatballs. He's just able to jump really, really high. Always has been.

 

But just as Ricky Bobby wanted to go faster, Rose wanted to jump higher. So he did.Coming out of Memphis, he registered a "no-step" vertical of 34.5 inches and a max vertical of 40 inches. Prior to his ACL injury, he was soaring about 37 inches off the ground. Post-injury, he says he's at 42 inches, per ESPN Chicago's Nick Friedell, much to the dismay of opposing defenses everywhere."

 

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"NFL players are no different than you and me, except they play a game for a living and make an exorbitant amount of money for it. But they have bills, they work, they have families and on occasion and they make moronic decisions. While the majority of these decisions are harmless, sometimes they lead to others getting hurt, a player serving jail time, or both.A lot of the players who make these horrible decisions choose to do so after hitting it big, either making an NFL team for their rookie season or being given a very large raise. "

 

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.Although it is widely thought that legs are the driving force behind an explosive athlete such as an American Football Player or a Basketball player; sprinters and professional athletes gain high amounts of power and speed by pumping their upper bodies.

 

Of course having excess muscular bulk and size can be detrimental to you as an athlete but weight training and plyometric exercises are some of the most commonly used programmes amongst the world of strength and conditioning and the key is to spend a lot of time working out and conditioning your whole body.

 

Read more: http://frankhopkinstraining.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/your-legs-can-only-move-as-fast-as-your-arms/

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