This video touches me deeply. After I got back from Atlanta, in the emptiness in which I found myself here, I watched it every single day. I even downloaded “Written in the Stars” to my ipod. I listen to this song when I need an extra drive to my training. Not because of the song, […]

More on my own hybrid training and how it is periodized. If you look at my table with five categories of training components (powerlifting, weightlifting, kettlebell, bodyweight training and “other”) it will look like a sort of game with random dice throws. It’s not. This is a table I designed for myself in which I

Stress e performance: a maior parte da pesquisa em psicologia esportiva relacionada a stress e performance diz respeito a lesões. Há estudos relacionando fatores psicológicos que vulnerabilizam o atleta a lesões e também estudos sobre as reações à lesão. A tríade do “medo do fracasso”, “perda de controle” e “inadequação social” são a tônica da

Stress. That’s the bottom line after endless tests and clinical evaluations. In the end, vulnerability to injury, problems with recovery from injury and staling in pre-competitive preparation stem from stress. But where does stress come from? Unfortunately, the literature on sports psychology is mostly restricted to collegiate Olympic athletes and focuses on injury specific events.

Life is not an obligation, it’s a choice. Good choices are based on information and principles. If you don’t have either, chances are your choices will be poor, including the one concerning to keep living or not. I feel most people keep living based on extremely poor choices, insufficient information, morally deplorable principles and, therefore,

Being a little averse to religious claims about things that you must do or be in this world, I’m really very interested in all sorts of ideas about creativity and innovation. Because I firmly believe you have no obligation to keep living and life is just a product of chance – not a gift, not