Sports Injury Rehabilitation: Nutrition for healing
You and your tendons are composed of animal tissue and the best way to build more of you is by consuming more animal tissue.
Sports Injury Rehabilitation: positive mindset
Sometimes in the days, weeks and months of rehab, you come to question everything. If you have had a surgery, it can be such an effort even to just have a shower, get dressed and get into the car. The struggle demotivates you and it is easy to spiral downward.
Sports Injury Rehabilitation: the secret to mobility
The secret of mobility revealed: Here’s how to regain range of motion as soon as possible following injury Motion is Lotion: This advice applies to all your mobility and flexibility training, not just injury Getting full range of motion back in a joint, muscle or soft tissue after a surgery or injury is often a big stumbling block for athletes despite being key to long term success and the avoidance of reinjury.
Sports Injury Rehabilitation: Dealing with Pain
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Sports Injury Rehabilitation: train around your injury
How can you train around an injury and maintain momentum, positivity and fitness?
Sports Injury Rehabilitation: Surgery
How do you decide whether to proceed with an elective surgery following a sports injury? If you proceed, how do prepare to recover as fast as possible?
Injury Rehabilitation: your first 3 steps
Take ownership of your injury and set yourself up for a rapid return to performance.
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Increase the value of your words
Many things are considered valuable because they are rare, and this can apply to your speech too.
Body language Tips to fortify your communication skills.
Sometimes we rush to put our thoughts into words, in an argument for example. Even worse, when we don’t need to back up our words with action, for example on social media, we lose a vital opportunity to display integrity. Since much of our communication is non-verbal, how can we use our bodies to strengthen our message and influence those around us by showing them we mean what we say?
What are plyometrics and are they good for fighters?
“Plyometric” derives from the Greek words “plyo” = increase and “metric” = measure, in other words to increase measurement. It was coined by Fred Wilt, an American Olympic athlete and an FBI agent (some life) and referred to by Russian sports scientist Yuri Verkhoshansky as “shock training”.
Fix your Grumpy Knees
In this article I am going to talk about a type of knee pain that is very common in fighters, athletes and people who lifts weights. The condition is called patellar tendinitis and is characterised by pain in the thick tendon just below the kneecap, running into the top of the shin bone.
Should fighters lift weights? What is the best way to train Strength for MMA?
There is no getting around it, all other things being equal (technique, desire etc) the stronger fighter should win. Despite this self-evident fact, the argument is still raging over whether martial artists from boxers to BJJ to MMA should focus on getting stronger, which for most people means “should fighters lift weights?”
3 ways to Walk The Walk in your life
When you start to Walk the Walk in every aspect of your life, you will stand out in our current world because you won’t be using cheap words to manage people’s opinions, you’ll be controlling your own destiny and becoming a living embodiment of your goals and values. This will make a huge difference to your performance in sport, business and life.
Why do fighters “gas” and how do you prevent it?
Read on to find out: What is the scientific definition of fatigue? What 3 things do I need to do to improve my fight fitness? How can I start increasing my fitness today?