Sports Psychology: Training Philosophy - Changing Your Game by Changing Your Mindset

Change your mindset to change your game.  By changing society's preconceived ideas of losing, you will reconstruct your ideas of how to progress toward mastery.  By re-framing losing, you can transform losing into a positive opportunity to expand your knowledge.  In this video, Ryron Gracie presents a very interesting and thought provoking principle to obtaining mastery.

Sports: Motivation: ..."Earn it."

"If I die, I die.  That is how serious and dedicated I was to my sport.  He said you can't do it.  You're going to die.  I said, 'Well I'd rather die doing what I love to do than die sitting at home looking at the TV'".

"Which one of you mother******* is coming in second?  Because all you mother******* know I'm winning this ****."

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CT Fletcher 

Sports: Motivation - Fittest Woman

Okay, she may not be the fittest woman, but fit nonetheless.  Great motivation to get you going.

Sports: Quotes: Modern Holy Men

"Professional athletes are in many ways our culture's holy men.  They give themselves over to a pursuit to endure great privation and pain to actualize themselves at it, and enjoy a relationship to perfection that we admire, reward and love to watch, even though we have no desire to walk that road ourselves.  In other words, they do it 'for' us, sacrifice themselves for our (we imagine) redemption."

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David Foster Wallace

Sports Training: Recovery: Active Recovery

Try add active recovery to your recovery regimen.  Active recovery can be added after a workout or on a scheduled rest day.  There are both physically and mental benefits to active recovery.  Physically, active recovery, in the form of low-intensity exercises, allows you the needed rest without sacrificing your fitness levels.  And mentally, it allows you to step back from the psychological stresses of hard training days and competition.  Although the overall usefulness of active recovery still needs to be researched further, for now, it seems active recovery does more good than harm. 

Nutrition-Rice: All White Ain't That Bad

Based on some really quick research, white rice does not appear to be to all that bad for you if it is combined with exercise or an active lifestyle.  Although if eaten without exercise, it can contribute to an increase risk of diabetes.

Sports Training: One More Try - Sisu

"Intrinsic to Finland and its people, sisu is a form of stoic courage and unwavering perseverance in the face of long odds and hard challenges. It's the kind of thing that allows a person to quietly set his will to complete just one more rep before setting down the barbell. It's what helps a man climb a hill when his body wants to refuse."

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