Sports:Nutrition: Calculating your BMR

Here is the formula to calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). 



Women: BMR = 655 + ( 9.6 x weight in kilos ) + ( 1.8 x height in cm ) - ( 4.7 x age in years )

Men: BMR = 66 + ( 13.7 x weight in kilos ) + ( 5 x height in cm ) - ( 6.8 x age in years )

Sports: Nutrition: Probiotics

Do probiotics work? Apparently, there is no strong evidence in favor of consuming probiotics by children  .  However, the consumption of probiotics by children was not harmful.  So is adult consumption of probiotics beneficial?  Maybe.  Unfortunately, the research article did not cover adult use of probiotics, but the health benefits of probiotics consumption in children only had modest health benefits. 

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Live Science

Sports:Nutrition: Dieting: Environmental Cues and Overeating

"Environmental cues might be a cause for overeating."  For example, in a study, fresh and stale popcorn was given to people in theaters and a boardroom.  When it came to eating the both kinds of popcorn, the people in the boardroom were pickier eaters (in terms of the quality of the popcorn) than the people in theaters (who regularly ate popcorn).  An interesting side note of the study showed that people who regularly ate popcorn at theater were pickier eaters when they ate with their non-dominant hand. 

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60 Second Mind

Sports: Psychology - Quotes

"Learn it right and you will do it right the rest of your life, learn it wrong and you'll spend the rest of your life trying to get it right, and in battle, you meat heads that get it wrong, the rest of your life will be very short."

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-Sergeant Steve Prazenka- (Bloody Bucket Division W.W.II)

Sports: Training: Psychology - Staying in the Zone

"I had a student who told me he wanted to compete.  I would grill them as to why, and it was when I discovered why when I could could coach them in their process.  Some of the guys I would say, 'Remember your goal here is just to do this, and get it out of your system. That is what you told me in the changing room. You're not trying to win this or not trying to lose this. You just want to know if you have the balls, the will, the tenacity to step out into this ring, cage, or mat, and just do this.' And it took all the pressure off because 'I don't have to win because my girlfriend is watching.'"

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Tony Blauer

Sports:Nutrition: Dieting

New research points to why some diets may be destined to fail.

"When a dieter starves themselves of calories, they starve their brain cells as well. New research finds that these hungry brain cells then release "feed me" signals, which drive hunger, slow metabolism and may cause diets to fail."

Interesting theories.

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Sports: Psychology - Quotes

"I immersed myself in Jiu-Jitsu, trained in the mornings and afternoons. I started training hard and put it in my head that I had to do well at the event. I didn’t need to win, just have good matches. I put to practice some of the things I already knew how to do, the weapons I already had...and thank God it all turned out alright."

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Cris Cyborg