Tag Archive for: performance

Plan Your Season

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Tomorrow’s Super Bowl Kick-off is set for 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. The location was set years ago, and the day and time were set immediately after last year’s game. There were no secrets. Everyone knew. Every team, coach, and player knew the details. Every team had the same time to train. They all played the same number of games during the season to qualify. The teams in tomorrow’s game played the exact same number of play-off games. In fact, they both played overtime games to qualify. Things couldn’t be more even. Who will win? I have no clue.

Many of you may not like football and won’t watch the game (or the commercials). That isn’t the point. I’m asking about you: when will your season begin? It’s February 1st—how many 2019 events will you have to prepare for? When do you have to be at your best? Is it a specific time of day? Particular days of the week? Vacation? Conference? Presentation? When is your first game? Your first play-off? Your Super Bowl? If you haven’t taken the time to figure out when that is, how do you plan to be ready for it? Take the time today or soon to figure that out.

I want to emphasize that planning for your peak day or season isn’t just for athletes or executives. If you’re going to be the mother of the bride sometime this summer, that day is a marathon and planning now will help you enjoy it beginning to end. If you’re a student and you’ll be taking the LSAT or the MCAT this year, that needs to be your best day all year. If you’re an accountant or tax attorney, you’re already into tax season, but you can still learn how to be ready for the end-of-season crunch. All of us can learn to target our energy levels for whatever our peak season will be, no matter our current fitness level.


The 9th Annual Super Bowl Webinar

The Memos I’ve written this week give you information on why you should track your diet and fitness efforts, the top trends in nutrition and diet, and why you need to know when you need to be at your best. You can use the information to plan your 2019. If you’d like some direction in using the information to make 2019 your best year yet, join me for my annual Super Bowl Webinar tomorrow at noon ET. I’ve done the heavy lifting so you can benefit from what I’m going to teach you.

What are you prepared to do today?

        Dr. Chet

Exercise to Perform

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Keeping with a Steeler theme, Pittsburgh won this past Sunday evening to advance in the NFL playoffs. They landed at about 4 a.m. A couple hours later, James Harrison, a 38-year-old linebacker and a star in the game, posted pictures of himself working out at the Steeler facility at 6 a.m. To say that’s dedication is an understatement.

There aren’t many 38-year-old linebackers in professional football—he’s the only one. He eats clean. He is dedicated to his workouts. He gets treatment from acupuncturists and chiropractors weekly. If it’s legal . . .

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Eat to Perform

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With the NFL playoffs going on, there have been some amazing performances. Do these men have talent? Sure, but talent won't take you far enough. I've accumulated some stories about how athletes prepare to perform and they seemed especially appropriate this week.

Let's begin with what is known in Steeler Lore as The Waffle House Incident. Antonio Brown, late of Dancing with the Stars fame and one of the best wide receivers in football, went out to eat with his wide receiver teammates. He's known for eating only organic food. As the story goes, he grilled . . .

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