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Success Story: A Wake-Up Call to a Better Life

By Sam Dehority — 2013

Sean Harrison wasn’t an athlete. Sure, he’s 6’6″ and 200-plus pounds, but flat feet and a lack of coordination kept him from utilizing his size, while a steady diet of Bojangles’ fast food and soda kept him on the couch.

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How Olympians Are Fighting to Put Athletes’ Mental Health First

More athletes are reporting mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, psychiatric conditions and eating disorders.

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Alice Park
2021
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Overload Principle: Training with Purpose

Plateauing happens to athletes at all levels. It’s good for training regimens to become a way of life, but doing those sessions over and over again can become like mindlessly checking a box. Inputs remain the same–which can be detrimental to increasing performance outputs.

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Nate Martins
2019
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Battling Plateaus

Plateaus – aka periods of little to no progress – are inevitable in the sport of weightlifting.

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Mash Elite Performance
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Stuck in a Rut? How to Avoid Plateauing in the Weight Room

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever hit a plateau in the weight room when it comes to increasing strength? What about when it comes to increasing power output (vertical jump, short-distance sprint)? Well if you have, you are not alone.

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Pedro Mendez
2020
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Plateaus: Practice Without Progress

“It was a downward spiral for about three years. I just reached a natural point where I felt that I wasn’t going to see immediate results anymore and that was hard for me to accept. I did the same thing every single day for so long that I could just tell I was not improving.

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Maya Rathore
2019
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15 Children Of Athletes Who Were Overshadowed By Their Parents

Here are 15 athletes who were far too overshadowed by their parents to often poor results and show how fame is a double-edged sword.

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Michael Weyer
2017
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The Worst Siblings in Sports

Sibling rivalries can be heated, with one brother or sister constantly trying to outdo the other in a search for both personal satisfaction and parental approval. So when two or more siblings show up together in the sports world, comparisons are inevitable.

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Bleacher Report
2012
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27 Celebrities and Athletes Who Followed in Their Fathers’ Footsteps

Like father, like son. It’s not always easy to follow in your fathers’ footsteps It’s natural for sons to admire their fathers, but when your dad is a professional athlete or entertainer, well, a kid really has something to aspire to.

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Matthew Jussim
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Like Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka, I’ve Stepped Away from Competition Because of Performance Anxiety.

Out in the chalk circle, my vision became tunneled, my stomach tied in knots, and I felt like I couldn’t hear anything but my own racing thoughts.

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Amelia Jarecke
2021
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‘Their Mental Health Takes a Hit Every Time’: Measuring the Impact on Athlete Activists

People who don’t feel the effects of racial injustice or discrimination in their daily lives sometimes struggle to understand the impact. But the harm can be severe.

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Allison Torres Burtka
2021
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