Sports & Suppliments: What you need to know!

Sports & Suppliments
Work Hard...Play Fair

With the news of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds on the front page of news, there has been much to say about the role of suppliments and sports. As a former NFL player I can honestly say that there is no question that anyone who plays sports, at any level, needs to have a quality suppliment to take to support their body.

The question is, "What should you take"? This is where most people go to their buddy or local store and ask someone who never played professional athletics to educate them on what they need. Too many people don't know what questions to ask to determine what product to purchase. If you are an active person who plays sports, or excercises regularly, you need to be on some sort of suppliment to support your body and allow it to heal and recover quickly.

The key word is "support". If you are taking something that your body can not breakdown efficiently, then you are wasting your money. The best thing for a person to take is something WHOLE FOOD and ORGANIC. Your body will be able to breakdown the suppliment and you will be able to see measurable improvement in your recovery time and stamina.

Steriods or other manufactured suppliments, or performance enhancers will provide and short-term benefit, but will cause damaging effects to your body over the course of time. Also, taking an over abundance of protein drinks will only cause problems for your kidney if you are not on any type of "probiotic" to assist your body in processing and digesting food.

A serious athlete should also take an adaptogen. Adaptogens help the body adjust on the cellular level to the various stresses that are put on it. Adaptogens also support the circulatory system, immune system in resistance to disease, as well as reduces recovery time after a workout!

Feel free to visit www.healthywize.com/eliteallstargroup for a product with 10 adaptogens, as well as whole food/organic suppliments and vitamins to support your body.

Perfect Practice

My rookie season in the NFL, I had the best coach I could of had. He was a perfectionist, and would only talk to you when you made a mistake! So you can imagine he talked to me a lot during training camp. Coach wouldn’t just give you constructive criticism... he would GO OFF ON YOU for running the wrong route, or making the wrong read.

In 1996 we were still running the run-n-shoot offense in Atlanta, and every play had multiple options for every person. If the play called for a simple 12 yard out route, I could have a combination of routes based on the coverage of the defense, and the position of the defensive backs. My head was swimming the first week. But I soon figured coach out. He knew you were going to mess up occasionally. But as long as you don’t make the same mistake twice, or make the same mistake that someone else just made, then you were fine.

I decided to take daily notes in our meetings of my mistakes and the mistakes of others to make sure I wouldn’t do it again. This habit allowed me to make the team and play over guys who were bigger, and faster than me. To quote coach, "I’m going to cut you, before the owner cuts me. If I can’t trust that you are going to do the right thing every time, then I can’t play you in a game."

If you want to make it to the next level, start paying attention to the little things, and do the right things right every time!

Sports & Books

Over the years I have seen and played with some of the most talented athletes on the planet. I’m talking about Hall of Fame players, and people with rare God-given talent. Unfortunently, I have also seen some of these same people waste their talent and opportunity because they either didn’t prepare themselves off the field, or they felt the rules didn’t apply to them.

One of the worst things that can happen to an athlete is for them to be treated differently because of their talent. When parents and teachers stop emphasizing the importance of school and an education, it leaves a major void in the person and they are typically not ready for life during or after sports. Too many player struggle because school was something they did to play sports, not something they did to prepare them for life.

80% of NFL players end their careers broke! Why? Because they never learned the value of a $, and thought that $ will always be there. If you are an athlete, or helping to develop one, please push them just as hard off the field, as you support them on it!