About being alone, feeling good with your own company and being an athlete “The bar is loaded” The lifter walks up alone to the platform. The spotters are busy getting setup into the safety position. Someone or a lot of people shout words of encouragement from backstage. Three referees are silently watching in intense […]
A collection of resources about the importance of sleep on athletic performance
Powerlifting and sleep Leia mais »
http://storify.com/mariliacoutinho/the-nature-of-sports-talent-1
The nature of sports talent Leia mais »
(parte 1 – parte 2 – parte 3 – parte 4) (continua de “Você está pronto? Talento, preparação e prontidão competitiva” – ) Esporte – o talento Desde que o esporte se tornou uma atividade com importância estratégica e comercial, a otimização do sucesso competitivo recebeu grande atenção. O foco das estratégias de otimização esteve, no início, no talento. Duas abordagens
(parte 1 – parte 2 – parte 3 – parte 4) O que determina o sucesso competitivo? Estamos acostumados a uma resposta para isso: talento. Em todas as atividades concorrenciais, costuma-se associar o sucesso a alguma qualidade inerente ao indivíduo que determina sua superioridade em relação aos demais. Algumas pessoas teriam nascido diferenciadas e é isso
Você está pronto? Talento, preparação e prontidão competitiva (parte 1 de 4) Leia mais »
Sports fundraising, high performance, competition, sponsorship, minimizing costs and powerlifting: the money issue The Crowdfunding Experience This is an experimental report. A report about an exciting (maybe too exciting), surprising and painfully unsuccessful experiment. As most people with minimum scientific training know, we often learn more from unsuccessful experiments and failed attempts than with
Crowdfunding in sports – Powerlifting Leia mais »
Because you must justify your sponsors’ investments. Then you really must do it in a report-like fashion, showing it’s no bullshit, that your numbers, as compared to international standards (real ones) hold, etc., without making it boring as a corporate or academic report; Because you want to attract more partners/sponsors and you need to showcase
Why and when do you need to broadcast your athletic achievements? Leia mais »
It is almost a non-issue that stress, depression and anxiety will change our feeding behavior. The question is: why? What is behind this? This is not one of those evolutionary psychology-type questions. I believe it is time to really understand why we shift to what retrospectively is an obvious poor choice of food and eating
Diet and emotion, diet and love Leia mais »
The week before, my friend and nutritionist Rodolfo Peres asked me to send him my diet journal. Not surprisingly, the day I created the journal spreadsheet and started recording data, my eating habits changed dramatically and very soon I noticed I had lost weight. I did not measure it, but probably mostly fat tissue –
The journaling effect Leia mais »
On October 5, 2012, Gene and Ame Rychlak created the campaign “Power Against Violence and Abuse”. Their mission is as simple and complex as powerlifting itself: to confront all forms of abuse. Abuse, by definition, is an act of violence that takes place between asymmetric players: an adult against a child or an elderly person,
Surviving suicide, rape and abuse through powerlifting: my story Leia mais »
