Gustavo Dantas wil be teaching his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Back Attacks and Tournament Prep Workshop on Saturday, June 16, 2012, from 10:00 am until 1:00pm at the Team GD Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Academy in Tempe, Arizona. I will be guest speaking at the event covering a multitude of useful topics including nutrition prep for Brazilian Jiu [...]
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Joseph Sale Interviews Dr. Dorothea Hover Kramer, the Author of Healing Touch / Essential Energy Medicine for Yourself and Others
The purpose of these interviews is to speak with people who have created successful outcomes, for themselves and for others in the world of sports, business, and other endeavors. It then follows that the person interviewed will be talking about their life and / or business philosophy that they have grown into over the years. [...]
Joseph Sale Interviews Marc Allen, the Author of Visionary Business and The Greatest Secret of All
The purpose of these interviews is to speak with people who have created successful outcomes, for themselves and for others in the world of sports, business, and other endeavors. It then follows that the person interviewed will be talking about their life and / or business philosophy that they have grown into over the years. [...]
The Health Benefits of Vitamin C
Lets talk about the nutritional health benefits of Vitamin C. Vitamin C is an important essential vitamin with a multitude of health benefits and a significant impact on numerous markers of human performance. What do I mean by essential? I mean that the body cannot synthesize or create Vitamin C from other raw materials. If there is insignificant or not [...]
The Human Brain, Neuroscience, Mirror Neurons, and Golf Performance
In this article I will discuss neuroscience, mirror neurons, mental rehearsal, and their potential influence on the improvement of golf performance as well as the implications for the larger world of human performance. Mirror neurons are considered a relatively recent development in the field of neuroscience, being discovered in the 1990s. One of the more well known [...]
A Primer on Knee Anatomy and Human Performance
The knee joint is an amazing structure of the human body. It’s surprising that it holds up at all in the sports world or even in every day life, being asked to perform in ways biomechanically that are far outside reasonable expectations. Think about it. The knee is like 2 tooth picks stacked on top of one [...]
Golf Performance Improvement through Core Conditioning and Core Stabilization
Intelligently applied core conditioning and core stabilization has a positive influence on many aspects of your golf game and golf performance including optimum golf club head speed, golf address posture, golf backswing, golf downswing and golf swing follow through among others. The transverse abdominis, also known as the TVA, is one of four muscles that make up the anterior and lateral core [...]
Golf Warm Up & Golf Stretching Influences Golf Performance
Are you warming up and stretching correctly before you golf? Are you warming up and stretching at all before you golf? It’s easy to do and it’s easy not to do. By taking the time to move your joints, articulations, and their corresponding muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and connective tissue in an intelligent manner you prepare the body and [...]
Golf Performance and Neuromuscular Reeducation
A term used in the world of human performance and golf performance is Neuromuscular Reeducation. As it applies to golf, it refers to the concept that your brain and nervous system has developed circuits or neural networks aligned with your habitual golf biomechanics and habitual golf movement patterns. Neuromuscular reeducation comes into play when golfers are looking [...]
What is Optimum Golf Performance?
Let’s break it down into smaller subunits. Definitions: Optimum: the point at which the condition, degree, or amount of something is most favorable. Performance: manner or quality of functioning. Golf: we know what that is. For every aspect of your golf game and every aspect of your life there is a potential state of optimum. [...]