Precision Nutrition - Calorie Counting Part I
For this Training Report, I want to review the complexity behind calorie counting and explore the science that is involved with this topic. This Precision Nutrition info-graphic provides excellent content on the issue. Athletes, high performance individuals, and people who are looking to improve their health outcomes should be aware of what is involved with this process. Enjoy!
Can Brainspotting Help Athletes Improve Their Performance?
The field of sport psychology has developed many cutting edge techniques that have been used to help athletes overcome psychological issues during sport performance. Biofeedback, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, & recovery monitoring devices such as WHOOP have helped athletes improve sport performance. However, Brainspotting is a new clinical intervention that is getting ready to take the sport psychology field by storm…
Precision Nutrition - How To Master Meal Prep
A common issue my clients have in regards to prepping for a healthy meal, is that they don’t have a good strategy that helps them stay consistent. Precision Nutrition has put together these simple strategies for how to master meal prep and continue eating healthy. As a Precision Nutrition Level 1 coach, I regularly review this process with the athletes I work with, and wanted to make these tactics available through the Training Report…
Sport Psychology Tactics - Training Peaks & Tracking Psychological Health
When athletes and coaches begin planning for how they will train over the course of the year, they use a variety of different strategies. One thing that is usually absent from designing training programs is how to track psychological health effectively. It is absolutely critical that coaches and experts within the field of sport psychology promote the idea that mental health is directly tied to mental performance…
Strength & Conditioning - Destroying the One Rep Max Myth
Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialists, Tactical Strength & Conditioning Facilitators and USA Weightlifting coaches are experts in periodization and program design. However, there are some sport coaches and strength coaches that avoid one rep max attempts. I will be using this Training Report to debunk those myths and provides an Olympic Weightlifting training program example that all athletes and coaches can use as a reference…
Sport Psychology Tactics - Volt Athletics & Motivation
Staying motivated through rough patches in training is something everyone deals with regardless if you are a collegiate athlete, professional athlete, or just a casual weekend warrior. Sport psychologists and mental performance coaches are constantly on the lookout to find the best techniques and strategies to help their clients maintain and enhance their motivation…
Precision Nutrition - Why You Can’t Stop Overeating Junk Food & 7 Ways To Stop
Whether you are a high-level athlete or a sedentary individual, at some point you have probably had the experience of overeating junk food. There are a variety of reasons for why this is, and I believe it’s important that we increase our awareness about the the processed food industry and how our bodies respond to junk food. This Training Report will explore the reasons why it’s easy to overeat junk food and strategies on how to stop…
Organizational Psychology - Elite Negotiation Skills
When I am working with high-level business executives (also known as corporate athletes), I will go through sport psychology tactics that are helpful for enhancing the effectiveness of their interactions in high-stakes negotiations. For this Training Report, I want to review proven negotiation skills that are used at all levels throughout the ‘corporate athlete’ world…
How Can Psilocybin & Brainspotting Help Athletes With Trauma?
For this Training Report, I want to review the relatively new treatment options of Psilocybin & Brainspotting, how they can potentially help patients, and why we should consider a multi-modal approach using these interventions. I want to explore the theoretical concepts associated with these treatments and why mental health practitioners with the proper resources should start to investigate whether these interventions can be utilized…
How Can You Enhance Musician Creativity Through Brainspotting For Performances?
Often times people have the misconception that sport psychologists and mental performance coaches exclusively work with athletes, when in reality many professionals within the field of sport psychology actually work with a variety of performers such as musicians. For this Training Report I am going to discuss how musicians can enhance their creativity through specific Brainspotting interventions…