Category: Pro Athlete

Over the past couple of decades, CrossFit® training has grown exponentially, with the number of CrossFit centres or “boxes” increasing each year. The origins of CrossFit date back to 1995, when the founder,

Inflammation is our body’s normal response to any stressor, injury or foreign invaders, such as bacterial or viral infections. Inflammation is necessary, since it is our immune system’s defense mechanism for protecting and helping the body heal.

How do you judge an athlete? Often, it is by their win-to-loss ratio. Failure is as much a part of sport as winning, and how an athlete copes with failure speaks volumes about them.

Athletes understand the importance of exercise and training for optimal performance and improvement. However, rest and recovery are also a crucial aspect of an exercise program because they allow the body to repair and strengthen between workouts.

Sports nutrition is crucial when it comes to optimising training and performance and the prevention of or recovery from injury. Nutrition for athletes can be compared to fuel for a car.

Right after winning the five-hour long 2019 Wimbledon final, Novak Djokovic famously said, “When the crowd chants Roger, I hear Novak.” I am where my attention is.

In 2016, this Swiss athlete was kept out of action for about five months because of a torn meniscus in his knee, only to suffer a back injury on his return to court. Later the same year, the knee injury recurred during a match, forcing the all-time favourite to miss the rest of the tennis…

You may have experienced a flow state at some point in your life—that sense of fluidity between your body and mind when you are completely absorbed by and intensely focused on something beyond the point of distraction.

Elite athletes are those who compete at the professional, Olympic, or collegiate levels. Elite athletes are seen as high-functioning individuals with various positive attributes such as being “focused”, “resilient,” “confident”, and “composed.” Highlights It is a common fallacy that only athletes who have no mental and emotional vulnerabilities succeed and are able to compete at…