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THIS Is The Age When You're At Your Peak | The Great Athlete Tip Success comes to those who stick at it the longest. At least judging by the athletes who won the Olympic gold medals in the last 50 years, this can be said as true. Usain Bolt, Carl Lewis and Justin Gatlin aside, the winners of the 100m gold medals since 1976 have been above 26 years of age. Linford Christie, Carl Lewis, Justin Gatlin and Donovan Bailey all ran their fast times into their thirties. So why is that? In this video, I go into the reason why YOU should stay in your sport until your late twenties to reach your peak and why staying in your event until then helps you incorporate relaxation into your sprinting. 2 BRAND NEW Relaxation for Sprinting Programs NOW AVAILABLE. For the MINI-COURSE STARTER PROGRAM for sprinters click below https://tinyurl.com/37ft8y9w For the FULL Program click below https://tinyurl.com/mr38neej Sign up for my email list THE RELAXED SPRINTING MOVEMENT list and get 20% off the FULL program. Click below https://relaxedsprintingmovement.aweb.page/p/cff37df3-0e63-4df5-b03e-c173f1c722ea ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsbQW1AchRM

Trying is such a common word to use in our society today and we use it all the time with the intention of achieving something. It is especially common in the field of sport and you will see many #athletes , many of them in the elite world stage using the term trying. But as I demonstrate in this video, Trying is a word that actually hurts your performance in your #sprinting , 400m or anything you want to achieve. Trying actually means to fail. It's a term or a language that the body doesn't understand and it confuses it. If your body and mind are confused then this makes it weaker and actually more stressed. A more stressed and confused body means more tightness and restrictions to your power and stride length. Trying is the total antithesis of relaxation and by trying it will be impossible to saty relaxed while sprinting. This is why athletes, without knowing it, are sowing the seeds of failure into their performance even before the gun has gone off. If you want to achieve something, you have to give your body a distinct command. Relaxation or tightness is actually a choice you make and it's within your power to bring about either. So when you command your body to be relaxed, it will follow that command. Say "I choose to be relaxed" is a far superior than "I'll try and relax". If you enjoyed this video, please like and share. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH5EpqmikZg

Often, deep breathing does not relax us for our sprinting performance. If you're a 400m athlete or sprinter, you should know that relaxation is crucial to running fast times. It will allow you to move in your natural powerful state but also it's your biggest endurance weapon as it allows more energy efficiency. However sometimes we can try too hard in incorporating techniques and breathing paradoxically could be one of them. And when we try too hard with the breathing, we can remain in a stressed state anxious state that will only have us running in tight restricted state. This does not help our speed development especially if we're trying to use deep breathing before a big race. Add nerves into the mix and this tighens us up even more. Often we find that our breathing is restricted and we can't take in as much oxygen as usual. As well as this, you might find that your nose is stuffy an blocked up and it gets increasingly difficult to breathe. We need to break this pattern. One way to stop this is to use the very first BE-Activated activation which is for the diaphragm. This is the first activation I use in the 1-1 musxle activation session because its the most important and it opens up the diaphragm to work. When stress hits the body, this restricts the use of the diaphragm and our breathing becomes shallower and faster. The activation demonstrated in the video will free up the diapragm to work optimally and it might actually clear your nose as well. Another way is to not try to deep breathe at all and instead, check in with your body and observe your breathing. When we find ourselves trying too hard, we must go the other way and not try at all. Feel your body, the weight distribution of your feet as you stand, your fingers and hands, your shoulders. Breathe slowly and allow the air to pass through your nose easily. Ultimately the blocked nose is an anxiety issue caused by our obsessive thinking and when we bring ourselves back to our body, we break this obsessive thinking pattern. And as always, follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/breatherelaxrun/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/relaxedsprinting Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/activatemindandbody/ and now TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@sprintingrelaxed To book a 1-1 muscle activation session with me, please go to my website www.sportsmassagesoxford.co.uk If you found that the info in this video or any of my other videos have been valuable to you in your sprinting or 400m and you feel it's worth a donation to this channel then you can donate in the link below. This is very much appreciated. Thank you for your support regardless. https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=W2VDSWSLZ43WS ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcmXDJEwBd4