Sports Performance Academy Blog

It's that time again and we're getting ready to run straight into the holidays where gift giving becomes one of our main focuses.

We get to work with a ton of athletes, and each year we get to hear what they want for Christmas...so we wanted to share with you some of the best gift options for athletes this year! We also want to share the gifts that can make the biggest impact on your athlete this new year. Some of these things are pretty straight forward and some of these will be brand new to you.

Do You Want To Be An Athlete

One of my favorite sayings goes something like this: If you want to be an athlete, you have to start doing what athletes do. 

Now granted, athletes do some goofy things sometimes if they have superstitious habits (wearing lucky socks, rubbing their lucky rabbit foot, or carrying around their lucky stuffed animal) but great athletes all do very similar things especially when it comes to recovery, sleep, and nutrition. We need to pay attention to these...