Goal Setting | Part 1

Being able to set goals as a student athlete is vital to your improvement. Think of this as a rocket ship aiming for the moon - without a guiding path to help it land successfully, how will it ever make it? Similarly, if you have no trajectory for helping yourself achieve the heights you want to achieve, where would you find yourself? Goals are important because they add that extra motivation, the purpose, and the end state that we need when we’re working for something. In this two-parter, we’ll be covering goal setting and how you can do it most effectively to get where you want to be.

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How to Fuel Your Body

As a student athlete, one of the most overlooked but important aspects is your nutrition. Think of it in the most simple way: food is your source of energy. As a person in your position, energy is what you need in order to make sure your efforts to excel on the playing field and in the classroom are not for nothing. Eating low-quality foods, will not only hurt you from a physical standpoint but eventually may also harm your mental side for a variety of reasons that differ from person to person. Here we’re gonna talk about the basics of student athlete nutrition.

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Student Athlete Lifestyle | The Mental Side

One of the most overlooked aspects of being a student athlete is the mental side of it all. Put yourself in this position: you’re in the 4th quarter and you have to take the last shot with 5 seconds to go. Your palms are sweating, your heart is racing, and the anticipation fills the room. You grab the ball and take the shot…. It bounces off the rim. What now? Simply put, sports are hard. They’re hard on the body, and definitely hard on the mind.

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