Athlete Health

You might be a hardworking forty-plus professional–but sitting and staring at screens all day is taking its toll on your body. Or maybe you’re an older adult who loves to stay active–but aches and pains are preventing you from playing tennis, golf, or another favorite pastime. Pain medication provides a temporary fix, but doctors have no idea how to help you long-term. Matt Peale does. A certified Corrective Exercise Specialist with decades of experience in fitness training, Matt specializes in helping executives and “active agers” lose the pain and get back into the game.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve never lifted a barbell before - this book will have you bulking up in no time. It is set to serve as a road map through the weight room. Think of it as a personal trainer who’s always going to be there for you. Increase your strength to improve your health, your appearance, and your performance with Barbell Training for Beginners.

Like most people, I was born into a meat-eating family. Our daily meals consisted of meat and dairy. What I thought was a lot of healthy fresh foods like dairy products, eggs, meat, etc., were consumed. Though naturally, I love animals. After studying the vegan diet when I was 14, I decided to change my life and have been vegan ever since.

Do you find yourself constantly struggling to lose weight and keep up with the rigors of daily life? Have you tried every diet under the sun, but haven’t made any long-term progress? Do you keep finding yourself feeling flat and low energy, while seeing that annoying little number on the scale stay exactly the same? Then keep listening. Over the last 50 years we, as a society, have seen some huge changes in our daily diet. We are no longer eating whole food, lean proteins, natural fats, or fruits and vegetables.

Master the vital keys to success for athletes, coaches and entrepreneurs, including the secret "off-switch to the mind" that instantly catapults you into The Zone, where the leaders in every category of life reside.

Athletes need to take the right quantity of proteins to maintain their strength! That’s why, the vast majority of the athletes have to follow high-protein eating plans that are almost always meat-based. What if high-protein eating plans could be based on healthier components such as vegetables? In fact, it’s not true that you have to take a lot of meat; you can get even more proteins following a plant-based diet.

Hope Not Nope powerfully moves you towards a more positive existence by equipping you with the tools to update your mindset and become a modern-day champion. In the title and writing the term “Lifelong Athlete” is utilized to imply hope is cultivated in this identity, but also adds a fresh perspective: Hope is not wishful thinking, it’s learned and earned. The “Lifelong Athlete” identity is not just related to competitive events, it’s living out the values of servant-based leadership to achieve wholeness: Health.

Put fitness into practice with this balance-driven guide from cyclist, CEO, and coach Art Trapotsis. Do the demands of your career, family, and life constantly sabotage your efforts to improve your fitness? Exercise is vitally important for good health, but it usually takes a back seat when life becomes busy. You might prioritize your work and family relationships out of what seems like necessity, but before you realize it, your fitness goals are pushed aside, and you feel stressed out and unbalanced. The bright side? It doesn't have to be that way.

Pinned follows Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane, two high school seniors, as they embark on the most important winter of their lives in a quest for the New Jersey state high school wrestling championship.

Black Athlete White Athlete is a thought-provoking and insightful book that helps individuals clearly understand the situations that they are currently experiencing. This book provides solutions to overcome challenges in the various areas of life. This book also helps to enlighten, inspire, and nurture the daily tasks needed for mental stability now and in the future.

In The I of the Tiger, retired athlete and sports researcher Kimberly Carducci analyzes the psychology behind forming an athlete identity and its impact on mental health in today’s sports world. With a basis of who we are as athletes, Carducci guides listeners through the toughest moments athletes face along their journey (defeat, injury, retirement), and how to get through them. In this timely audiobook, Carducci demonstrates how ignoring athlete’s emotional struggle in modern competition is a harmful, outdated approach to sport.

An inspiring journey following a boy who suffers trauma at a very young age which shakes his world, beliefs, and faith. This leads him down a dark path into drug addiction and alcoholism, before he surrenders to his disease and accepts his bipolar disorder diagnosis. He finds triathlons and ultra-endurance racing as an empowering outlet that helps transform him and becomes a positive outlet for treating his manic bipolar systems.

Many female athletes struggle with body confidence and change their nutrition in unhealthy ways, only to the detriment of both their performance and their health. SPRING Forward: Balanced Eating, Exercise, and Body Image in Sport for Female Athletes provides performance nutrition and body image flexibility guidance for adolescent and adult female athletes. This book details the problems and the consequences, and provides extensive education on healthier, higher-quality performance.

Chronic inflammation can be a setback to our athletic goals, but more importantly it has a major impact on our overall health and longevity. According to WHO, chronic diseases is the number 1 threat to human health.

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Monopolists, the incredible story of Olympic sailor Kevin Hall and the psychiatric syndrome that makes him believe he stars in a television show of his life.

Exclusive interviews with the top athletes in sports today. Trust the Grind: How World-Class Athletes Got to the Top reveals how these men and women reached the heights of their profession so that you can too. Each chapter tells a different story, as each superstar shares the habit that helped them accomplish their goals and reach the pinnacle of their profession.

Are you an athlete? Yes - you are! You may not know it yet, or have ever experienced the intoxicating rush of pure movement, but your inner athlete is lying dormant inside you just waiting to be unleashed! Even if you've played sports or undertaken athletic endeavors, have you really opened yourself to the physical and mental power that simmers just under the surface of your consciousness?

Is your diet slowly killing you? In addition to heart disease, obesity has been linked to other serious conditions such as diabetes, stroke, and high blood pressure. Studies show that a plant-based diet lowers cholesterol, obesity, and risk of cardiovascular disease, among other benefits. In Plant Paradox, you’ll find out what a whole food, plant-based diet entails, with science-backed evidence of its health benefits. Whether you want to lose weight, resolve a medical issue, or just improve your health, a plant-based diet is the solution.

The diet that will transform more than just your waistline. It’s an increasingly popular diet with countless celebrity followers. It’s the subject of widely distributed documentaries and books. It’s been credited with transforming the lives of sufferers of chronic diseases. The plant-based diet is no longer a fad - it’s the lifestyle for the future.

With a wide range of great-tasting recipes, as well as a vegan food guide and a step-by-step workout plan, this powerful book is your ticket to the world of veganism. Containing a breakdown of the fundamentals, including how you can get protein, B12 vitamins, iron, calcium, and more, Vegan Cookbook for Beginners is perfect for anyone looking to get started with veganism – and making sure they get the nutrients they need to stay healthy.