by David Rock posted in Harvard Business Review

Some seemingly innocent organizational practices, like praising people for success, are likely to not only reduce performance and increase cheating but also make people less adaptive at work.

The good news is that a few simple changes can effect a tremendous shift. Carol Dweck, Professor of Psychology at Stanford, presented this study at the first day of the 2011 NeuroLeadership summit in San ...

This past weekend I had the good fortune of spending time at CrossFit Roots in Boulder Colorado. I was there with Brian MacKenzie and Bryan Diaz teaching the CrossFit Endurance Running Seminar. During the seminar I was asked numerous times the following questions:
1. How often should I do the running drills.
2. For how long should I do the drills.
3. And is there a point where the need to do the drills ends.

These ...

By Lisa Zeigel

Earlier this year a national pollster conducted a phone survey of 1,000 individuals to get an idea of how this selected population viewed the importance of exercise. From this sampling, 75 percent stated that they agreed that exercise is “somewhat” important in daily life, inclusive of 33 percent who took the view that it is “very important.” In 2009, another poll found 39 percent of respondents subscribing to the belief that Americans will need to change ...

Go short and go hard. Learn technique, then do it fast, then you can do it long!
There are a few things to look at as you are making the change over to CFE training. First, it is a complete paradigm shift in thinking. Even if you have done high intensity sprint workouts before there are differences with these workouts. There are no other programs that include all the aspects of CFE. Also the number of high intensity ...

D. Casey Kerrigan, MDa, Jason R. Franz, MSb, Geoffrey S. Keenan, MDc, Jay Dicharry, MPTd, Ugo Della Croce, PhDe, Robert P. Wilder, MDf

Received 30 June 2009; accepted 22 September 2009.

Objective
To determine the effect of modern-day running shoes on lower extremity joint torques during running.

Design
Two-condition experimental comparison.

Setting
A 3-dimensional motion analysis laboratory.

Participants
A total of 68 healthy young adult runners (37 women) who typically run in running shoes.

Methods
All subjects ran barefoot and in the same ...