Unless you are an athlete with extreme circumstances. If you are "working out" or training 6-7 days/week then you may need a little external help from a product like Gatorade. Gatorade, for the most part, is nothing more than flavored sugar water...what Gatorade likes to label as "electrolytes." Gatorade is a lot better at marketing their product than improving it, no question about it! Contained in a standard 20 oz bottle of Gatorade is the following,
- 34 g of SUGAR - That's close to 8 teaspoons of pure sugar poured into that "performance enhancer."
- High Fructose Corn-Syrup - Don't believe those pro-HFCS commercials you're seeing on TV, this stuff is like drinking lard mixed with a little vegetable oil.
- NO Fruit Juice! - Conclude your own thoughts on this one
Do yourself and me a favor and drink the best performance enhancer of all-time: WATER!!!!!!
CLICK HERE for a list of why WATER is so amazing!
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
MARCH MADNESS IS IMPROVING?
COLLEGE BASKETBALL IS GETTING BETTER? Everyone has it right now...March Madness fever. If you are a male, you are in a pool with friends or maybe even co-workers. If you are a female, you are probobly doing the same. Not to knock females right now but a good majority of the time, females pick the winner by playing eeny, meeny, miny, mo or which jersey has prettier colors in it. For males, the sad thing is that it is the females that win most of the time.
All over the radio, I hear that college basketball as a whole is diminishing. "There is no front runner this year and everybody is just average" is all I'm hearing. To me, it's not that college basketball is getting worse. It is purely a matter of more elite level athletes coming out of high school than ever before. There are unbelievably gifted (athletically) players playing at smaller schools that have the potential to take down a college basketball powerhouse of past years. Georgetown lost to Ohio, a team that made the tournament by the skin of their teeth. Murray State took down Vanderbilt. Temple was beat by Cornell. It was Cornell's first victory ever in the tournament. Ever. These smaller programs are not beating the bigger foes because they're just getting lucky. They simply have athletes and good basketball players at that.
The level of basketball skill in this country goes up everyday. Kids have more opportunities to get better than ever before. Kids used to get better by putting in hours on their hoop in the backyard. No there is are countless camps, academies, special shooting coaches, sports performance enhancement facilities (I know of a good one, Velocity Sports Performance), and every kind of shooting and dribbling aid you can imagine. As you watch more games in the tournament, as I will be this weekend, appreciate the athleticism that is displayed on each and every court! Have any questions or comments, list them BELOW!!!
All over the radio, I hear that college basketball as a whole is diminishing. "There is no front runner this year and everybody is just average" is all I'm hearing. To me, it's not that college basketball is getting worse. It is purely a matter of more elite level athletes coming out of high school than ever before. There are unbelievably gifted (athletically) players playing at smaller schools that have the potential to take down a college basketball powerhouse of past years. Georgetown lost to Ohio, a team that made the tournament by the skin of their teeth. Murray State took down Vanderbilt. Temple was beat by Cornell. It was Cornell's first victory ever in the tournament. Ever. These smaller programs are not beating the bigger foes because they're just getting lucky. They simply have athletes and good basketball players at that.
The level of basketball skill in this country goes up everyday. Kids have more opportunities to get better than ever before. Kids used to get better by putting in hours on their hoop in the backyard. No there is are countless camps, academies, special shooting coaches, sports performance enhancement facilities (I know of a good one, Velocity Sports Performance), and every kind of shooting and dribbling aid you can imagine. As you watch more games in the tournament, as I will be this weekend, appreciate the athleticism that is displayed on each and every court! Have any questions or comments, list them BELOW!!!
Friday, March 12, 2010
When Should My Son and/or Daughter Start Training w/ You?!?!?!?!?
Our normal youth program here starts at age 8. You may be thinking that is too young. Is it too young to have fun? Is it too young to start working on simple loco motor skills? Is it too young to work on gross motor skills? Athletes used to get these things listed above in their Physical Education, gym for you "old schoolers,"but that is no longer the case. We don't make our youth program like that of the Russians, turning our athletes into finely tuned athletic machines. We may be hoping for the finely tuned part but the aspect that should jump out at you is the machine part. Our number one goal for our youth program is to HAVE FUN!!
We have began to take over the P.E. program of many kids. I have high school age athletes that can not functionally skip in a straight line. Yes, i am completely serious. I have high school athletes that can't balance on one foot for more than 15 sec without falling onto the opposite foot. These movement qualities should have been taught more that 10 YEARS AGO!! This is Velocity Sports Performance comes in.
If you live in the greater Charleston area, be on the lookout for our "Future All-Stars" program that we will be starting for our younger athletes, ages 5-7. If you'd like more information regarding this program, leave me a comment below. In the meantime, read the article I've posted about common youth sports performance questions. Have an excellent weekend and enjoy life!!!!!
Click here for the article by Brett Klika
We have began to take over the P.E. program of many kids. I have high school age athletes that can not functionally skip in a straight line. Yes, i am completely serious. I have high school athletes that can't balance on one foot for more than 15 sec without falling onto the opposite foot. These movement qualities should have been taught more that 10 YEARS AGO!! This is Velocity Sports Performance comes in.
If you live in the greater Charleston area, be on the lookout for our "Future All-Stars" program that we will be starting for our younger athletes, ages 5-7. If you'd like more information regarding this program, leave me a comment below. In the meantime, read the article I've posted about common youth sports performance questions. Have an excellent weekend and enjoy life!!!!!
Click here for the article by Brett Klika
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