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The Brave Leap: Finding Growth Beyond the Comfort Zone
“Every graduate here has the training and talent to succeed. But do you have the guts to fail?” - Denzel Washington
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Preventing Common Basketball Injuries: Off-Season Strategies for Aspiring Athletes
Use your off-season to look at what you can improve on. So that when you come back for the new season, you are recovered and better than ever.
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Setting Realistic Off-Season Goals: A Guide for Aspiring Athletes
"A Goal without a plan is just a wish"
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The Five Pillars of Effective Rest and Recovery for Young Athletes
For young athletes, using the offseason as a time to rest and recover is crucial as part of their overall athletic development
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Bridging the Gap: Communicating with Your Coach
Approaching conversations with your coach with the intent to understand rather than confront can transform potentially contentious interactions into…
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Inside the Game: Understanding Substitution Decisions in Basketball
what is good for the team may not be what is good for a player; and what is good for a player may not be what is good for the team.
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Finding Perspective: Why Complaining Doesn't Help in Sports
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective. Siri Hustvedt
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Your Playlist for the Long Game: Why Effort Outweighs Winning
The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching - Anson Dorrance
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Elevate Your Mental Game: 4 Performance Techniques to Enhance Focus and Concentration
In the arena of competitive sports, your battle is not only against opponents but often against your mind.
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Finding Time in a Jam-Packed Schedule: A Teenage Athlete’s Guide
take the time to mark out your activities as glass or rubber. your focus should then shift on making sure that the glass activities do not fall
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Small Tweaks, Big Leaps: Crafting Your Success Environment
By making small changes in your surroundings, you can make the right actions easier to do and the wrong ones harder.
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Why Behaviour Change Often Fails: Navigating the Challenge for Performance Athletes
Most behaviour change efforts falter - when your "motivational novelty" fuel runs low, and your "willpower reserves" are depleted
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