The roar of the crowd rises to a thunderous space as each athlete takes their mark. When athletes get to the competition venue and face off against the best in the world, you discover who has given it the most behind-the-scenes.
There is a powerful visualization that reveals what it's like to be a decorated world champion. It is like an iceberg. Under the water surface, there are many hidden secrets we don't see - Who has woken up early? Who trained with their heart and soul? And finally: Who gave it everything they had for not just four days or weeks but for years or even most of their life?
To become the best in the world, it takes drive, determination, and motivation. But what else?
Talent Is Key
Elite athletic success has always been a combination of talent and environment. Most people can become excellent at anything via focused practice.
Still, a championship will combine innate ability with extreme dedication to their sport.
The unrevealed ingredient is a childhood full of excitement and the inherited talent to become one of today's best athletes.
Get The Right Kind Of Rest
Olympians throw in a few extra recovery days to keep them from burning out. One of the biggest obstacles is overtraining, which can mean the difference between winning and losing.
It is important to work hard but just as important to find time to rest with some off days.
Don't Skimp On Sleep
Proper sleep is undoubtedly one of the most effective ways to improve your athletic performance. When bedtime calls, athletes should sleep like babies.
By shutting off all electronics to avoid any buzzing throughout the night, clearing their minds and blissfully falling asleep to fight another day.
Besides allowing bodies to recover from those intense training sessions, sleep is essential for reaction time, precision, and clear-thinking.
If you don’t get enough sleep, cortisol will be released in higher quantities, limiting how far you can go athletically.
Don't Skimp On Sleep
Proper sleep is undoubtedly one of the most effective ways to improve your athletic performance. When bedtime calls, athletes should sleep like babies.
By shutting off all electronics to avoid any buzzing throughout the night, clearing their minds and blissfully falling asleep to fight another day.
Besides allowing bodies to recover from those intense training sessions, sleep is essential for reaction time, precision, and clear-thinking.
If you don’t get enough sleep, cortisol will be released in higher quantities, limiting how far you can go athletically.
Keep Your Mental Toughness
The mental fortitude required to perform at the highest level is one of the many factors contributing to success. Athletes must have a solid mindset to maintain consistency, perseverance, and bounce back from adversity.
Research has found that Olympians with a high degree of self-confidence can block out distractions while managing their anxiety level which leads to success.
It's not easy, but goal-setting strategies, visualization tactics, and talking positively with oneself can help make the difference between an average performance or one for the history books!
Nutrition Is At The Front Line
What you were eating three days ago can be affecting how you are feeling and performing during competition days. The type of food that athletes are eating should vary depending on the sport they're participating in.
Many of their competition-time calorie needs will come from carbohydrates and protein sources to fuel them for intense activities like sprinting, jumping, or throwing.
The more nutrient-rich the diet is, the faster athletes can recover after training.
The Olympics are a symbol of rising achievements and memorable historical moments. These milestones leave perhaps the most profound impressions on the world today.
These games are only once every four years, so let's celebrate the athletes' dedication and persistence!
There is nothing to stop you from training like an Olympian, so why not make it your goal?
Who knows, maybe one day you’ll conquer one of your dream games.
At Attitude is Free, we believe that anything is possible with the right training habits. So we invite you to learn from the best athletes in the world and support them on the battlefield of greatness.
Through messaging, events, partnerships and apparel, our goal is to inspire people to embody a positive mindset as a way of life.
Attitude Is Free is a way of thinking or feeling about someone or something that is reflected in our behavior. We all have the power to choose an optimistic mindset that leads to long-term fulfillment and happiness that not only impacts ourselves, but can uplift others. We have complete power over this tool within each of us and it is 100% FREE.
Attitude is Free was formed in 2016 to bring to life our desire to create a brand that consistently inspires people to never give up, a brand that promotes the idea that we have the power to maintain a positive mindset in life and through the varying obstacles we face.
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