Diet, the perfect training plan, massage, icing, mind strength. The list goes on and on. These are all incredibly important aspects to help one reach their athletic potential. Often, one of the key ingredients we don’t take seriously until it is too late is proper rest. How many hours of sleep do you get per night? Do you take days off? What about tapering? What about just listening to your body for signs when it needs a break, even when the schedule screams, NO! …

Every athlete knows that nutrition plays a critical role to their performance.  Often the hydration part of it is very neglected until race day.  Just as nutrition in the days and weeks leading up to your event will effect your performance, hydration is ever just as important.  If you wait until race day to decide to take in electrolytes and ensure you have proper hydration, you are too late.
Over recent years, sports drinks have taken a front seat as the hydration solution.  Many of them are scientifically formulated with a …

Welcome to New Age Athlete.  Here is the beginning of an amazing site you will love for many reasons.  Ultimately to help as many people as possible find the connection of the mind, body, spirit triad as related to an active life style.  When this connection is there, we feel grace, peace, and even a sense of euphoria as we dance through life and achieve the greatest potential possible in our chosen activity.
Sometimes we cling so strongly to a sport, habit or pattern in general which at one time brought …