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Daily Meal Plans for Athletes

By Andrea Boldt — 2019

If you're an athlete, you know all too well how important feeling your best is to optimal training and performance. The foods you consume actually become you — as the building blocks for your muscles, connective tissue and bones.

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How Perfectionism Affects Athletes’ Performance After Competitive Failure

Elite athletes are more likely to rise to the occasion after a failure if they keep potential unhelpful consequences of striving for perfection in check, according to a University of Alberta study, the first of its kind to investigate perfectionism and performance following failure in competitive...

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Michael Brown
2020
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Mental Coach of Top Athletes Shares 3 Steps to Handling Pressure Like an Olympian

A half-pipe course lasts about 22 seconds. Alpine skiers fly through the air for five seconds. Figure skaters complete three twirls in a breath.

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Yoni Blumberg
2018
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How Pro Athletes Deal With Pressure

When Minnesota Vikings punter Jeff Locke learned how to control his attention, he learned how to cope better with pressure and improved his performance in games. Pressure can get to any athlete, that is, if the athlete lets it happen.

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Patrick Cohn
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Under Pressure: Why Athletes Choke

What makes an elite sports star suddenly unable to do the very thing they have been practising for years? And is there anything they can do about it?

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A. Mark Williams, Tim Wigmore
2020
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