Often times athletes are uneducated in their nutritional needs. There are many fad diets, athletic supplements, and overall nutritional controversies. So, it is no wonder that many athletes have no clue what, when, or how they should eat. For example, some trainers will put their athlete on a high fat diet or high protein diet to boost endurance. Meanwhile, other trainers restrict fats and carbohydrates; claiming sluggishness. Most experts will advise the average athlete to avoid high fat diets. There has been a growing prevalence in health problems with retired athletes. They ingest tremendous amounts of fats and the body becomes accustom to eating these foods. Once retired, the athlete decreases exercise, but never decreases the high fat diet. Without the rapid excretion of the fats, they clog arteries and attribute to heart disease.

Some of the controversy around balanced diets for athletes may be attributed to the tendency for a one size fits all mentality. An athletic diet can not be all inclusive, because no two sports have the same requirements. For example, a golfer is not going to burn the calories that a basketball player will. Individual athletes are going to vary in size, metabolism, sex, height, excretion habits, and weight. These individualized factors mean that there can not be an all inclusive diet. Climate, weather conditions, and yearly seasons play a role in dietary needs. In the winter time or cold climates, athletes will not sweat as much. thereby they will not need as many calories. A dietician or nutritional expert is the best way to provide individualized balanced diets for athletes. A nutritional expert can measure how many calories are being burned per day and how much fluid is lost per day. They will also take age, weight, height, injury, etc.. into account. Many of the above misconceptions come from a layman (like trainers) providing rudimentary nutritional advice, without taking in account all athletes and sports are not the same.

For Athletes Mental Edge (FAME) is a membership site geared to help athletes overcome obstacles of self-doubt, nervousness, lapses of concentration and anxiety during competition. What For FAME does do is help athletes develop the mental edge to focus, concentrate, break bad habits, trust themselves, develop gamesmanship and awareness of the moment they are in. Many times just watching sports, you hear a commentator say, ‘He/She is so mentally tough.’ Believe me this does not just happen overnight for an athlete. It is something that is built over time. An athlete that displays this ‘Mental Toughness’ has at some point decided to prepare their mind just as hard and vigorous as they have prepared their body for competition. They have learned that being unprepared mentally will only lead to a breakdown physically.

FAME has noticed there is something missing in today’s athletes. They have technological advantages like never before. They include year-round training programs. Gyms that offer speed, agility and quickness programs to improve athleticism. Personal coaches/skill trainers are populating virtually every sport. Awesome medical advances to recover from injury faster. Yet, there still seems to be a missing link in peak performance. We look to fill this void by assisting accomplished, elite, professional, recreational and youth athletes in the development of the mental edge of mastering the moment they are in and performing at their peak

So, you must be asking, ‘How is this mental toughness/edge going to be developed?’ Simply, we focus on concepts like goal setting, relaxation, mental imagery and motivational phrases. We feel these concepts are the basis for strong mental preparation. We subscribe to the 75/25 rule. Winning is 75% mental and 25% physical. Others have this rule even more disproportionate for the mental side. If that is the case, why do we concentrate so much time training the body with little regard to mental training.