Krush Performance

NFL Preview & Concern For Player Safety

On this week’s Krush Performance:

* The Krush NFL “What To Watch This Season” List — Teams, Players,

& Story Lines

* Making International News — The CFL makes the bold mid-season move to ban full contact, padded practices during the season. Is this good or bad?

Dave Jamison will join us to discuss the pros and cons.

* As hockey season gets underway, player safety is always on our minds.

What can you do to make sure you or your players are as safe as possible? We’ll check in with the Hockey Experts down at United Cycle to go through their player safety check list.

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Mining Potential – In Your Mind

As we work to achieve Human Maximum Performance, there are two performance areas that hold secrets to the next level of human ability: Technology and Your Mind.

Sport Psychology has gained widespread acceptance but we have been limited in our ability to understand and teach this all important area of performance. We now have technology that allows us to see how are brains are operating allowing us for the first time, to see and understand what it feels like to control thoughts, focus, and even our brain waves in real time.

Today, we talk with Dr. Penny Werthner, psychologist, former Olympian, and Dean of the Faculty of Kineliology at the University of Calgary in Canada. We discuss the untapped potential of the mind, the technology that is now allowing us to train our minds like never before, what is next in the world of Bio and Neuro Feedback, and how this may be the next front in achieving Human Maximum Performance.

Let us know and if you have any questions, comments, smart remarks, or a topic you would like us to investigate let us know we may dedicate a segment or even an entire show to your topic.

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Sport Vision – Untapped Potential

This week on Krush Performance, we look at one of the most underrated areas of human performance …. your vision.

In our performance programs, vision ranks very high on the priority scale for good reason. Training your vision will not only reduce your risk of injury, it can also take your performance to new levels. You just have to know what to do.

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Daniel Laby, The Director of the Sport and Performance Vision Center at the State University of New York, to find out how our vision really works, how to improve visual performance and how your vision plays’ a major roll in determining the sport you play, and maybe even the job you do.

Let us know and if you have any questions, comments, smart remarks, or a topic you would like us to investigate let us know we may dedicate a segment or even an entire show to your topic.

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Krush’s WAR on SUGAR: Dr. Ann de Wees Allen Talking Sugar & Sport Perfomance

This week, the Krush Performance War on Sugar rages on in full force.

We have had plenty of feedback, input, thanks, and questions when it comes to our war on sugar AND I was recently accused of singling out and demonizing sugar. YES!!!! You better believe we are demonizing sugar!

In our WAR on SUGAR, it’s very simple. Sugar is public enemy number one.

We just had a powerful Twitter thread on @jeffkrush discussing sport drinks and I am amazed how misguided we are when it comes to sugar and sport performance.

So this week, I want to set the record straight when it comes to sport drinks and energy for sport with Krush Favorite, the Chief of Biomedical Research at the Glycemic Research Institute, Dr. Ann de Wees Allen.

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Continued Concussion Talk w/Tim Fleiszer of the Concussion Legacy Foundation in Canada

Are we doing enough to protect our athletes? Should High School Football be banned?

This week, we continue our look into Concussions in Sport.

We talk with ex-pro football player, Harvard Grad, and now Executive Director of the Concussion Legacy Foundation (CLF) in Canada, Tim Fleiszer, about the current research and the movement to improve player safety especially at the developmental levels of sport.

We also visit with former collegiate athlete turned researcher, Samantha Bureau. She is now the PR Director for the CLF and chats about how working with the researchers who are studying the donated brains of former NFL and NHL players has changed her perspective of contact sports and what she learned while working with the incredible CTE Center at Boston University.

We’ll continue the discussion on improving player safety and we ask Tim as a former Professional Football Player does he agree with the push to ban High School Football.

A powerful episode of Krush Performance.

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Concussions

Are we doing enough to keep athletes safe? What do you need to know when it comes to head injuries & concussions in sport?

As NFL preseason games get underway, college & high school sports are right around the corner, and we hear the rumblings of preseason NHL, I wanted to revisit head injuries and concussions to see where we are at in our understanding of this complicated injury and based on what we now know, what have we done to improve players safety?

We are joined by Dr. Martin Mrazik of the University of Alberta.

We discuss his roll in an innovative concussion research project taking place in the Canadian Football League that is funded by the NFL and the National Institutes of Health.

We look at what we now know about concussions and brain injuries and based on what we now know, have we done enough to improve player safety:

• Ban on body checking in minor hockey

• Limit on contact in football practice

• Ban on heading in minor league soccer

Do we totally eliminate high school football? It is currently a serious discussion!

How far do we go in regulating who competes and who does not as we discuss the fatal boxing match of mixed martial artist Tim Hauge.

Should he have been in the ring? Who should be making the final decision?

Let us know and if you have any questions, comments, smart remarks, or a topic you would like us to investigate let us know we may dedicate a segment or even an entire show to your topic.

As always, thanks for listening!

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The New Era of Stats, Analytics. & Dig Data in Sport

If you are not keeping up with the game, you find yourself out of the game as stats, analytics, and big data are here to stay and they are driving sport decisions like never before.

This week on Krush Performance, we take a look at the numbers game in baseball and why some of the most trusted stats are surprisingly wrong, what numbers actually work, and how the rise of Big Data is going to impact the future of the sport in not just baseball but all of sport.

We are joined by Keith Law, analyst and senior writer for ESPN, to talk about his new book, “Smart Baseball: The Story Behind The Old Stats That Are Ruining The Game, The New Ones That Are Running It, and The Right Way To Think About Baseball.”

As data and analytics make their way into the front office of virtually every professional and college program, we look at how the data is being used by organizations, how tradition is crippling on-field performance, and what the future of sport looks like as we enter the new age of Big Data.

Let us know and if you have any questions, comments, smart remarks, or a topic you would like us to investigate let us know we may dedicate a segment or even an entire show to your topic.

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“The Mobility Maker” Dana Santas – Preventing Back Issues & Stability, Symmetry & Range Of Motion For All

I am really happy to have Dana back on Krush Performance.

Dana is the founder of MobilityMaker.com, the Yoga expert for CNN, and much much more. She is the yoga mobility & breathing coach/consultant for the Tampa Bay Rays, Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Texans, Tampa Bay Lightning, & World Wrestling Entertainment, but she has experience consulting/training with more than 40 teams and hundreds of pro athletes worldwide. She also proudly works with U.S. military and veterans and served as exclusive yoga trainer for the Boston Fire Department.

Today, we talk about strategies for avoiding back pain and injuries as well as looking at the importance of mobility, stability, and function for optimizing sport performance and your health.

Namaste!

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Elite Athlete Development – Creating a Performance Environment

Where do the best athletes come from?

There is very little luck involved. Developing athletes and athletic talent is a process and it is a process that takes time.

In this episode, we are talk development, sport science, and the importance of managing people and relationships with Jonathan Hall, Head Coach of Triathlon Canada. Jonathan has worked and coached in the famed Australian Sport Model and for the power house USA Triathlon prior to taking the position with Triathlon Canada.

We look at what is involved in rebuilding a high performance sport program, the importance and patience needed in developing the next generation of super stars, and the parallels between high performance sport and world class business models.

Get ready for a jam packed Krush style performance conversation!

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Major League Baseball: Big Money = Big Results???

I wonder….really wonder….does big money equal big results?

It makes sense to think that big money should correlate to big results but it does not always work out that way. In fact, it’s not even close.

As Major League Baseball has it’s sights aimed at generating $15 billion of revenue per year, it is predicted to crack the $10 billion mark here in 2017. The 30 Major League Baseball teams employ 750 big league players at any given time. Since 2006, the players share of total revenue lands somewhere between 48 and 51%.

This year total team payrolls exceed the $4 billion mark but does the money mean results? Let’s take a look.

In this episode, we break down the standings and consider each team’s payrolls.

We go back to an early season talk with Alex Anthopoulos. the VP of baseball Operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and we’ll look at the top ways that you can avoid injury and improve your performance.

Let us know and if you have any questions, comments, smart remarks, or a topic you would like us to investigate let us know we may dedicate a segment or even an entire show to your topic.

As always, thanks for listening!!!

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