After Months Indoors, Skincare is Vital
Athletes at all levels have been stuck inside for months. Summer is here, and lockdowns are lifting, allowing for more outdoor activities. Your skin will be getting more sunshine than it has in months. Hooray for Vitamin D! Caution is key, though. This week, Olympus Movement Performance provides vital information for athletes and families. Take […]
How to stay healthy this cold and flu season so that you can perform your best on the field!
Timely and important advice from Olympus Movement Performance Q: Help! Everyone around me is sick, how can I help myself stay healthy? A: Wash your hands and stay F.R.E.S.H. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Olympus Movement Performance (@olympusmoveperform) on Feb 11, 2020 at 8:23pm PST WASH YOUR HANDS! One of the […]
Nutrition: What You Put In Is What You Put Out
Youth and teenage athletes must develop good eating habits that will last them a lifetime. This is the best time to introduce a healthy lifestyle, so they can make the connection between input and output; what we put into our bodies is directly linked to what we get out of our bodies. A bag of […]
Best Practices for Getting in Shape this Season
What fuels an athlete? There are three energy systems, or bioenergetics, that overlap and work together on a cellular level to physiologically produce energy and effectively fuel our bodies during activity. Two of the systems, the phosphagen and glycolytic systems, are anaerobic systems, which run in the absence of oxygen. The third system, the aerobic […]
5 Foods to Avoid as a Soccer Athlete
As an athlete you work hard to play hard. You’ve got hours of practice every week which means you need to fuel your body the right way to keep up your performance. It’s easy to stray from your athlete diet and indulge in those cheesy, greasy, deliciously unhealthy foods when you’re hungry after a long […]