Tag: Goals
5 Essential Ingredients to Better Sporting Performance
Your performance in competition is dependent on doing the right things in training. Here are 5 essential ingredients to consider.
Ambition
Where does your motivation...
Athlete Blog: Tracey Lambrechs – Similarities Between our Gym Members &...
Lately I have been thinking a lot about the similarities between most of our AUT Millennium Gym members and athletes. After talking to many...
Pushing through when the going gets tough!
There are certain times when you’re in the middle of an exercise or class and your brain decides; quite frankly I’ve had enough! It’s...
Exercise Efficiency. Get in. Get out. Get it done!
We all lead busy lives and when we are time pressured it’s very easy to put your own exercise needs on the back burner.
As...
7 Steps to Creating a Training Programme That Works
We all want to get better at something. After all, self-improvement helps us perform better in the sports that we love. Learning new skills...
5 reasons why a notebook is a young athlete’s best friend
Note-taking is an excellent skill to master and allows you to monitor your performance and improve faster in your sport.
However, visit any youth sport...
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5 Reasons Why Competition is Good (and bad) for your Child
What does the word ‘competition’ bring to mind? Is all competition a good thing? How do you distinguish between helpful competition and that which...
50 Questions Every Youth Athlete Should Ask Themselves
Asking good questions is an excellent way to assess your performance and become more in tune with what to focus on to get better.
At...
Head Girl leading the way
Charlie Toumadj is a busy person. On top of surf lifesaving, netball, A-Level classes at school, Duke of Edinburgh and working at AUT Millennium,...
“Doctor of Surfing” sets up New Zealand’s first board sports programme...
“Just some guy doing weird stuff with surfing.”
Dr Olly Farley is used to having to justify his career choice. Combining his passion for surfing...
The Menstrual Cycle and How It Affects the Female Athlete
It’s well-known that sex differences between men and woman exist. Differences that affect your physiology.
But what’s not so well known is how these differences...
