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The brain may very well hold the greatest potential for moving human performance forward. It is one of – if not THE – most complex organisms in our known universe. It is like Mission Control for everything we do. So how do we go about getting control of our brain, our thoughts, our emotions, and ultimately our performance?

In our special series titled “The Krush Brain Game,” we have been digging down deep trying to get a better idea of what brain performance is all about and how to define “the brain” in terms of human performance.

We know the brain is a huge piece of the performance puzzle and new advances in technology are not only allowing us to map and track brain performance like never before but also allowing us to train the brain – IN REAL TIME and in ways that we have NEVER been able to until recently.

This week on Krush Performance, we talk with Lawrence Klein, Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Thought Technology.

Founded in 1975, Thought Technology is the world’s leading biofeedback, neurofeedback, and psychophysiological instrument manufacturer. Thought Technology has pushed the industry to new heights, and they are about to announce some very, exciting new health and performance initiatives as they continue to set the standard and raise the bar in human performance.

This week’s episode wraps up “The Krush Brain Game” Series. However, we have just scratched the surface when it comes to the Brain Game, we will be revisiting the discussion moving forward.

I would like to send out a special thanks to Lawrence for his support and the sharing of his contacts as we put together our Brain Game Series. From our very first conversation, I could tell we shared a passion for sport, for performance, and for helping people. Many thanks, Lawrence. I look forward to many more fascinating phone conversations.

I would also like to thank Carol Meyers, the General manager at the Biofeedback Federation of Europe. She has been an incredible supporter of our “Brain Game” series.

Finally, many thanks to the incredible “Krush Brain Game” guests who came on the show to share their knowledge, insights, and years of experience so we could all get a better understanding of where we are at and where we are going when it comes to brain performance and the mental game:

• Dr. Martin Mrazik: Clinical Neuro Psychologist & Professor at the University of Alberta

I look forward to your continued questions, comments, and smart remarks. Please share the show and join our quest in finding top performance for all.

Have a fun and safe Halloween Weekend.

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Yogi Berra once said, “Baseball is 90% mental, and the other half is physical.” I always smile when I see or hear a Yogi quote but this one hits home, especially as we dig into our Brain Game Series.

90% mental would have been a great alternative name for the series because once we have the physical side of development set up and rolling and we start to develop skills and talent the mental side of the development is a critical player if we are going to truly tap into the potential.

What is the Mental Game? How is it different from the Brain Game? Is it different or are they one and the same?

Today, we talk with Bob Tewksbury, Certified Mental Performance Consultant. Former athlete, Bob pitched 18 years in professional baseball, Yankees, Cubs, Cardinals… and his experience in sport provides a unique perspective on the mental side of performance.

“90% Mental,” by the way, is the title of Bob’s latest book. We’ll dig into that this week as well as we discuss simple yet powerful strategies that you can use to improve your performance right now and set you up with confidence as you move forward.

It’s a very practical look at the Brain Game as we discuss the mental side of sport performance on this week’s episode of Krush Performance.

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Welcome to the Krush Brain Game, where we are digging down deep to decide if “the brain” should be added to our list of top priorities in human performance. One of the fundamental priorities that must be addressed if we hope to tap into and even raise our ceiling of potential.

Technology is the name of the game on this week’s episode of Krush Performance. We have come a long way in our understanding of human performance but when we look to the future, we feel it will be new technologies and our understanding of the brain that will allow us to push human performance to new heights.

Today, we talk with Lucas Borgo, Product Manager in charge of performance products at Thought Technology. We look into the technology that is allowing us to train the brain and perform at new heights. We’ll discuss, how it all works, what exactly are we measuring, and where do we go from here because we are only at the very beginning of this new age in human performance.

So let’s roll and start our look at the technology that is now allowing us to train the brain like never before.

Let us know if you have had an experience with psychology or brain training that has impacted your performance, we’d love to hear about it.

As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.

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On this week’s episode of Krush Performance, “The Krush Brain Game” continues as we dig down deep to establish if the brain should be classified as a top priority in human performance. This week, we look at the concept of mindfulness.

What is Mindfulness? How can we utilize Mindfulness in our everyday lives and in the world of sport to get control and push our performance to new levels?

The brain is like Mission Control for everything we do, it is one of, if not the, most complex organisms in our known universe. So how do we go about getting control of our brain, our thoughts, our emotions, and ultimately our performance? Could there be simple strategies that allow us to better control our brains and brain function?

We talk with Dr. Inna Khazan, Clinical Psychologist and founder of the Boston Center for Health Psychology and Biofeedback. Dr. Khazan is a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and she is also a renowned expert in the field of biofeedback and mindfulness.

Also, as promised, we get to some of the messages from the Krush Mailbag. We’ve had some really great questions have come in and I’d like to get to a few of them.

The Krush Brain Game continues as we work to establish the brain as one of the “Krush Top Priorities in Human Performance.”

I personally can’t wait to share this week’s show with you. I have seen mindfulness at work and it is incredibly powerful.

As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.

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Is the brain a top priority for human performance? Is it something that should be addressed before we go on to train and develop strength, speed, or power? Or, should it be addressed before we even focus on skill, talent, and technical and tactical work? Welcome to our special Krush Performance series called, “The Brain Game.”

We are digging down deep trying to get a better idea of what brain performance is all about and how exactly do you define “the brain” in terms of human performance.

As it stands, we currently have four priorities that we feel must be addressed first & foremost if we are truly going to attack and even raise the potential of our athletes & performers. They are:

After these four are in order, we can then go on to attack the complete development of our athletes…..OR CAN WE?

The brain is a huge piece of the performance puzzle and new advances in technology are not only allowing us to map and track brain performance like never before but it’s also allowing us to train the brain in real-time and in ways that we have NEVER been able to until recently.

We’ve been talking with some of the top people in the world in order to decide if the brain should be classified as one of our top priorities for pushing human performance forward and today, we talk with Dr. Erik Peper, Professor of Holistic Health at San Francisco State University. Dr. Peper is an international authority on biofeedback and is the President of the Biofeedback Federation of Europe.

We’ll discuss the brain-body connection it is a two-way street and we look at how technology is set to launch us into the next level of understanding the brain and influencing brain performance.

It’s an incredibly exciting time in human performance.

Follow our series, “The Brain Game,” at Krush Performance.com and let us know if you think the brain should become a top 5 priority in human performance.

This is such an important conversation. The series may be two episodes, it may be more.

Your feedback, questions, and comments will guide the series and we will not stop until we have a consensus. Should the brain be a top priority in setting the stage for human performance?

As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.

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This week on Krush Performance, we kick off a special series called “The Brain Game.” We are digging down deep trying to get a better idea of what brain performance is all about and how exactly do you define “the brain” in terms of human performance?

In the upcoming weeks, we will visit with some of the top people in the world from all areas of human performance to help us decide if the brain should be one of our top priorities for pushing human performance forward.

Should the brain be one of the top priorities? One of those foundations that supports and drives the development of performance and potential or should it be something we address once we have the table set? Is it one of the areas we address once we have our program in order, once we are organized, and ready to attack human performance, in the short term and the long term? Is this when we attack brain performance?

What exactly is brain performance? It’s a really big and really important question.

Today, we kick off this all-important series with Krush favorite, Dr. Martin Mrazik, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta.

We set the stage and get a look at the vastness and scope of brain performance and the mental game of truly raising the potential of human performance.

This is such an important conversation. The series may be two episodes, it may be more.

Your feedback, questions, and comments will guide the series and we will not stop until we have a consensus. Should the brain be a top priority in setting the stage for human performance?

As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, Google Play, the iHeartRadio app, and now on Spotify! Don’t forget to rate and review the show!

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On this week’s episode of Krush Performance, we address some of your comments on the Krush special series, “Class C: The Kids of COVID.” We break down the potential of the “COVID Technical Advantage.” Could there be a performance benefit to the COVID shutdown?

We think so and there are rumblings coming out of the NBA bubble that reflect exactly this as some GM’s and owners are questioning effects of travel. How many miles does the average NBA team travel in a season and how does it compare to the other major sports? You are not going to believe the numbers! There is no question it impacts performance.

Also, with week one of the NFL in the books, we breakdown the 2020/’21 NFL season Krush style with all the storylines, teams, and players we are watching.

Finally, as we head into the fall we reintroduce the upcoming Krush series “The Brain Game.” It’s a special Krush look at the brain and brain performance in sport. What all does “The Brain” encompass? How does it impact performance? Can we train it? Should the brain be classified as one of the Krush top priorities in human performance?

As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance. Subscribe to the Krush Performance Podcast and sign up for our weekly newsletter while you are there.

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This week on Krush Performance, it’s episode 2 of our special series titled, “Class C: The Kids of COVID.” The Series takes a good hard look at the impact that COVID-19 and the shutdown have had on our youth and our athletes and how they are dealing with it all.

In this episode, we talk with player agent Manny Schmidt from Link Management International to discuss how they have been supporting their athletes and the messages they have been sharing to help their athletes not only cope with what has been a brutal disruption to their master plans and how to take this adversity and turn it into potential & growth.

Then, we talk with one of my all time favorite your professional athletes, James Hamblin, who’s final season of Junior Hockey was cut short due to COVID. He finished 3rd overall in WHL scoring. He and the team were looking forward to a great play-off run and of course, James was looking forward to his final game in front of the home crowd in Medicine Hat but it was all for not as it was taken away by COVID. Now, with a pro contract with the Bakersfield Condors of the American Hockey League, how did he deal with the abrupt end of his season and junior career and how has he been framing things up as he waits to see what sport will look like this fall?

This is a conversation that every athlete should hear right along with coaches, parents, and teachers everywhere.

Then, to wrap up the series, we take a look at a youth sporting organization that could very well be the poster organization for how to set up safe operations getting their players engaged, active and improving amid the strict COVID safety guidelines. We talk with Kelly Hodgson, competitive technical coach of the Scottish United Soccer Club, about how they have gone to great lengths to support their players and families and create and safe environment for all of their people.

They might be one of the best groups we could watch to see if Dr. Holt’s COVID technical advantage becomes a reality on the other side of all this madness.

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Today on Krush Performance, we bring you episode one of a two part series: CLASS C: The Kids of COVID-19. In the next few weeks, we are going to talk with coaches, agents, athletes, psychologists and students as we focus on the impact COVID has had on our youth and how they are dealing with it all.

Six months ago, society as we know it came to a full stop. Since then, nearly every person on Earth has been impacted in some way or another by COVID-19. Sickness, loss of life, the devastating economic impact: COVID-19 has taken its toll & it is still taking….

So, as we adjust, adapt, and work towards some kind of normal, the new normal perhaps…

• We watch with interest the race for a vaccine

As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and, keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance Subscribe to the Krush podcast and sign up for our weekly Newsletter while you are there.

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The Krush word of the day is Perspective.

Are you concerned about playing or having your kids play a contact sport? Why? Are you concerned about playing football or having your kids play football? Why?

If it is due to concerns over brain injury, concussions, or CTE, this is a MUST LISTEN EPISODE of KRUSH PERFORMANCE.

Today, we are joined by Merril Hoge, former NFL player, Speaker, Broadcaster and author of the Krush “Must Read” book, “Brainwashed: The Bad Science Behind CTE and the Plot to Destroy Football.”

When it comes to brain injury, concussions and most of all CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) do you have all the information you need to make good decisions? Or have we been at the mercy of the media and media hype surrounding this important topic.

Merril has lived it, was not happy with what was being said and what he was. He did a deep dive into the research and talked to some of the best doctors and researchers in the world…the result was this all-important book that is shedding new light on the whole body of research and the issues with what we have been hearing in the media.

Get set for some Perspective and let us know what you think after hearing what Merril has to say – get to us at [email protected].

As always, if you have a topic you would like us to investigate get to us at KrushPerformance.com and, keep yourself on the cutting edge of human performance Subscribe to the Krush podcast and sign up for our weekly Newsletter while you are there.

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