In athletics, active recovery is defined as a low-intensity workout that follows a high-intensity workout. The idea is that by engaging in light exercise after a hard workout (rather than resting and doing nothing), the body’s muscles will recover at a quicker pace. The quicker your body repairs, the sooner you can engage in a […]
As an elite athlete, I had to develop a healthy relationship with active recovery. Before I got to college, my ‘recovery days’ had nothing to do with anything active. I used the day as an excuse to be extra lazy, convincing myself that I was taking proper rest. Most times, I just ended up feeling […]
Many of us have a mindset that performance in any area is an on and off switch. We work hard. We play hard. We have a belief that “we’ve got this” and that leads us into thinking we can skip requisite mental, emotional and physical needs. We keep going even when we should stop, rest […]
I still remember my first day walking into NLP school and meeting my now 15-year mentor, the most masterful story teller I’ve ever met, the lovey Dr. Linda Ferguson of NLP Canada. I remember it like yesterday, because she was the first teacher I’ve ever had ask me to put away my notepad and stop […]
The art of Kintsugi is repairing broken objects with gold to highlight the “scars” and show that when an object suffers damage, it becomes more beautiful. At Elite, we believe that we can turn that pain into purpose. We can use the pain to launch ourselves into the next stratosphere of our impact. I can […]
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