Performance Driven Athlete

As soon as you walk into the gym to you go straight for the PVC pipe, foam roller or lacrosse ball? For you, that might be the last thng you need. The workout and your movement quality should dictate if you go that route or not. And being sore isn't the best indicator to grab for those tools either. Blood flow and muscle activation or 2 of the most important components of a warm up, and even though the good old SMR might feel good, it might be the last thing that you need to properly prepare yourself. Learn the ins and outs of what goes into a workout and what the proper warm up protocol for yourself might be.

Chris & Ben talk about the mental side of training/competing before, during, and after workout sessions. When is it time to go, when is it time to pace. It's about writing your own personal training or competing narrative about what to acheive from your session. 

Chris talks about his own experiences and experiements with intermittent fasting and the health benefits. Chris also discuess who it might benefit and how to approach the different ways of fasting. 
Ben discusses some of the minor differences in what elite CrossFit athletes and the average athlete pursuing general fitness and health improvements in their workouts. 

Chris & Ben dive into the concept of pain, and how pain can be a good thing. Pain is normally perceived as a bad thing, but when using some self awareness and understanding the process to return to regular training, we can speed the process up of getting back to a regular program with no modifications. 

Today Chris and Ben answer some questions of the listeners that cover jump ropes for CrossFit, use of belts, knee sleeves, gymnastics grips and competition game day nutrition

Chris & Ben dive into the negatives of sleep debt and deprivation and give some sleep rituals that can improve the quality of your sleep. They even get into some lifestyle approaches and habits that have the possibility of improving your sleeping habits. Call them hacks, call them habits, but there are some things you can do right now to improve your fitness, body composition all through some sleep rituals. These start at your daily routines and lead into you sleep sanctuary and how to capitalize on your money time.

There's a lot of talk about nutrition out there, and a lot of us are mislead but the vast array of nutrtion information. Tyler Minton joins Performance Driven Athlete to talk about his career in the field of health and fitness and breakdown his stance on nutrition as he uses food to help the average joe and the elite of the UFC to acheive their own personal goals. He filters through the difference of eating for performance, aesthetics and health. 

Chris and Ben dive into the ideas of body composition, how it is relatvie to the individual, what is seen as healthy and ideal in the industry and country, and proper ways to look at body composition changes through fitness. Nutrition plays a key role in the purusit of health and body changes, but we will save that for another episode. 

FOMOS - fear of missing out on success. We have our own persoanl expectations that often are not realistic or attainable and how we manage our emotions after these expectations is crucial in our development as a human being not just as an athlete. We want to use some tools that cognitive behavioral therapists use in order to overcome these personal roadblocks in order to have a better definition of success. Currently most of us have the ability to define our failures much better than we can define our successes.