recovery

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  The Wim Hof Method –> Activate Your Potential , Transcend Your Limits by Wim HOF (2020)

  How do you breathe? Can it be better? As a former swimmer, I have already experimented with breathing optimization.  While living in Monaco, I was also friends with a free driver who held a world record. As an archer, I have also learned how to use breath in my shooting sequence in order to improve…

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  The Willpower Instinct –> How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal (2013)

  Every time I read another pop psychology book I am even more grateful for not doing my Master’s degree. I am amazed at how much money, time and number of test subjects are aimed at ‘helping’ to understand our brains.

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  A Little Bit Today is OK

  Long-term goals require persistence. Doing productive stuff when you actually do not feel like it is very challenging. Of course we all need breaks now and then, but when those days start adding up to be more than the days where you are actually making real progress then you need to be truthful with yourself.…

• Accepting Uncomfortable Changes

  There are many expected challenges while moving between countries. It is those unexpected ones which hit you hardest. Today I needed my shinrin-yoku –> the Japanese version of a forest walk. It was a way to calm and recover from reviewing some training plans made during my last two countries. I was reminded of how…

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  Training Your Self Care

  As a lifeguard back in the 1980´s and 1990’s, I was trained to prevent accidents as it was so much easier than doing rescues. Learning to see risks before something happens is key to keeping yourself safe. There are dangers in this world. Plus it is always rather shocking when you realize that you are…

• Do My Sleeping Habits Affect My Recovery From An Injury?

  Every year, 8.6 million sports and recreation-related injuries are reported. While much of the focus is on post-injury physical rehabilitation … Do My Sleeping Habits Affect My Recovery From An Injury?

• Training Issues

  If you could tell your coach anything right now about how your training is going… what would you say? For all the excuses that we all can come up with, it truly is time to start back into planning for the next performance.

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  How to Train

  Most athletes do not have a private coach. There might be a team coach depending on your sport or age group but most of us are going it alone. And it is tough. With a few decades under my belt, this is what I have learned to be true: Your body is breakable so treat…