Read the original story on The Huffington Post By Maddie Crum 4,990. That’s roughly how many hours any given Olympic hopeful spent training between the London Games and now, hurdling, sprinting or vaulting toward her goals, flicking beads of sweat out of her line of vision. Practice can mean maintaining …
Read the original story from Vice Sports By B. David Zarley Consider elite athletes. They are, in an incontrovertible and empirical sense, endowed—blessed with gifts that dwarf those of the rest of us, most obviously in the corporeal department: frames like buildings, ballistic arrays of muscle fiber, hand-eye coordination and …
From Sports Illustrated: Michael Phelps is one of the most decorated athletes of all-time, with an all-time best 18 Olympic Gold Medals to along with a laundry list of world records and other accomplishments. Phelps is also human, which makes him susceptible to struggle, something he knows intimately. In a …
Read the entire story on The Players’ Tribune By Adonal Foyle, retired NBA player The first time I really wanted to understand the mental psyche of a professional athlete was when my coach was being choked by my teammate. That was 18 years ago — my rookie year. My curiosity …
Read the original story written by Brandon Marshall in the Huffington Post Five-Time Pro Bowl wide receiver and current New York Jet standout Brandon Marshall has been very open about his struggles with mental illness, and the helpful diagnosis of and treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder that allowed him to …
