How can athletes enhance performance?
Lifestyle and mental habits greatly affect athletic performance. In this video, HealthMaker Mark Verstegen describes how physical and mental work can be done to enhance ability.
Transcript
One of our greatest impacts that we've had on our athletes is not just tuning this high end. It's reestablishing their base of this healthy lifestyle,
which then allows them to achieve a much greater level of performance. [MUSIC PLAYING]
In sport, people assume it's all these extrinsic factors that motivate the athlete. In some cases, it is. But for sustainable athletes, the ones that we probably
recognize their names, there's this intrinsic motivator, what we call their "it." And we all, as humans, have an it.
And that motivational interviewing and the element to get to those deeper meanings of why they want to be a professional athlete,
or why the mother or the father want to do a great job-- and that, once we sink into that it,
then we can help people prepare for it, and fuel for it, and move for it, and ultimately recover for it.
I think everybody sees these race cars of human performance out there. But what they don't realize is the foundation that is health.
If we don't have the mindset, the nutrition, the movement, and the recovery, just the core fundamentals
to perform in life, there's no way that they can actually create a high-performance element in sport.
We've all heard a lot about sports analytics, "Moneyball," all the different things that have now kind of changed the game.
But that's all taken into account inside the lines, on the court, on the baseball field. But we also have a major assumption within that--
the statistics to say that outside the lines, what do they do around those lifestyle habits that
are allowing them to perform? One of our greatest impacts that we've had on our athletes is not just tuning this high end.
It's reestablishing their base of this healthy lifestyle, which then allows them to achieve a much greater level of performance.
You not only are gaining a positive energy gain and focus gain, those elements the moods continue to improve.
But you're also doing a lot of these things that have been sabotaging your health and your wellness
and decreasing all the inflammation. And it's amazing what just that one simple change, which you control, how great an impact can
make on the overall quality of your life. We can literally, to this day, be so precise about how we can tune your body for the exact outcome
that we want, not just for a sport, but it's the sport; it's the position; it's then the style of play
that that, you know, system needs you to have and then build a player profile exactly like that and help it sustain.
We spend way more time upgrading performance above the neck because we know essentially that you're
dealing with a person who lives inside the body. And if we can create the connectivity with that person
and upgrade those habits, upgrade those rituals, ultimately the body will respond. [AUDIO LOGO]
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