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- #49: You Need to Know These 4 Ways Alcohol Impacts Your Body [Performance Nutrition with Lauren Thomas]There are lots of misconceptions about how our bodies interact with alcohol. For example, does alcohol help you sleep better? Lauren answers this question and explains how alcohol impacts our sleep, hormones, performance, and how our bodies metabolize it.16 min
- #48: Practicing Compassionate Awareness [Mental Performance with Dr. M.R. Blank]
Practicing compassionate awareness is essential for us to have healthy, and meaningful relationships with ourselves and with those around us. Dr. Blank addresses this spiritual process through a mental performance perspective.
30 min - #47 : How Mindfulness Counters Overeating [Interview with Performance Dietician Lauren Thomas]
As a Performance Dietician Lauren Thomas studies how nutrition impacts performance based metrics and equips tactical-level athletes to understand how to properly fuel their performance. Last week Lauren shared with us 6 ways overeating negatively impacts our bodies. Today, she shares with us how the use of mindfulness combats the tendency to overeat.
22 min - #46: Here are 4 Essential Pillars of Self-Care During the Holidays [Mental Performance with Mary Rose]Culture and marketing media pressure us to turn Christmas into an object we consume, rather than a sacred season we celebrate; and we often feel the effects of that pressure in our stress levels and in the anxiety we feel during the holiday season. In this episode Dr. Mary Rose Blank shares four essential pillars in self-care as a way to withstand those holiday stressors. I hope you enjoy.25 min
- #45: 6 Ways Overeating Impacts the Body [Interview with Performance Dietician Lauren Thomas]
Lauren Thomas is a Performance Dietician, and has three sets of letters behind her name (M.S. in Nutrition Education, R.D. Registered Dietician, CSSD-Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics)…in other words, she's basically an expert! She studies how nutrition impacts performance based metrics and equips tactical-level athletes understand how to properly fuel their performance. Today, Lauren shares with us six ways that overeating negatively impacts our body.
28 min - #44: Mental Performance-Active Constructive Responding [Interview with MPO Dr. Mary Rose Blank]When someone brings you good news, how do you respond? We all have a typical response style we use in our communication with others. Today Mary Rose talks with us about four primary styles: (1) Passive constructive responding, (2) passive destructive, (3) active destructive, and (4) active constructive responding. Then she leads us through a deeper understanding of how the active constructive response style fosters deeper, more meaningful relationships. Enjoy the conversation!25 min
- #43: The Sports Guys ask, "Are the Cowboys all hype?"
Al and Jeff are back with their new sports show format. Today they tackle their top five: NFL rundown, college football, the Wilder/Fury fight, Urban Meyer and domestic abuse in the NFL.
50 min - #42: Mental Performance-The Pervasive Magnitude of Gratitude [Interview with MPO, Dr. Mary Rose Blank]
Gratitude is a physiological antidote to stress. It change the chemistry of our brain and rewires our neuropathways. Mary Rose shows us how to incorporate gratitude into a routine that helps us optimize our performance in life.
22 min - #41: Mental Performance: The Negativity Bias-Pt. 2 [Interview with MPO, Dr. Mary Rose Blank]
Dr. Mary Rose Blank continues to explain the Negativity Bias she introduced in episode #40. She explains the neuroscience underneath the Negativity Bias works and introduces ways to overcome it in our lives in order to optimize our performance.
16 min - #40: Mental Performance: The Negativity Bias-Pt. 1 [Interview with Dr. Mary Rose Blank]
What does neuroscience teach us about our natural inclination toward negativity? In this episode Mary Rose tells us how the Negativity Bias works and introduces us to ways to overcome it in our lives in order to optimize our performance.
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