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Optimum Performance: LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger should be cautious with ACL rehabilitation as NFL looms | NOLA.com
With LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger’s college career over as a result of a torn anterior cruciate ligament...
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Optimum Performance: A little psychological gris-gris to help New Orleans Saints break through on the road
“I think it is obvious, there’s something about us on the road that has to be addressed,...
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Optimum Performance: How much should we push our kids to excel in sports? | NOLA.com
Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. — While at tennis practice standing next to Richard Williams — father and...
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Optimum Performance: U.S. Army Rangers give New Orleans Saints plan of attack for Seahawks | NOLA.com
The New Orleans Saints are one game behind Monday’s opponent, the Seattle Seahawks, in the race for...
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Optimum Performance: Surviving the coaching lifestyle and living to talk about it | NOLA.com
In 1995, I hosted a seminar for local high school coaches called “Surviving Coaching.” Using a hospital...
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Optimum Performance: NFL-funded study reveals young athletes more prone to concussions | NOLA.com
A recent report by a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel of experts noted a high rate...
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Optimum Performance: Training toward disaster | NOLA.com
A reader asked if I would tell the story of his near-death experience based on his encounter...
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Optimum Performance: Preventing MRSA outbreak a touchy subject | NOLA.com
In 2003 several St. Louis Rams players were exposed to a serious infection, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA),...
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Optimum Performance: The benefits of the NFL bye week | NOLA.com
Each NFL team plays a 16-game regular-season schedule over a 17-week period. The open date, which both...
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Optimum Performance: The dreaded hamstring injury | NOLA.com
A hamstring strain is a debilitating leg injury. Research published in the National Strength and Conditioning Journal...
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Optimum Performance: Special teams gunners have it rough in the NFL | NOLA.com
“In a dangerous sport (like the NFL), he may have the most dangerous role,” last Sunday’s New...
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Optimum Performance: The psychological impact of being an NFL player | NOLA.com
By all practical standards, NFL players have it pretty good. They get paid quite well with excellent...
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Optimum Performance: Coming to the Saints’ defense with vitamin D | NOLA.com
We all know the Saints’ colors are black and gold. Based on just two weeks into the...
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Optimum Performance: NFL players already feeling physical impact early in season | NOLA.com
There is no doubt NFL play is a physical, hard-fought battle each week, causing many teams to...
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U.S. Open postcard: Being on Serena Williams' winning team
New York — We warmed up Sunday on the court at 1 p.m., and the match was set...
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U.S. Open postcard: Preparing Serena Williams for the final
New York — Today was a practice day, which started at 11 a.m. and lasted until 12:30 p.m....
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Optimum Performance: The harsh reality of NFL injuries
Going into the NFL regular season, the number of player injuries in the preseason has been staggering....
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U.S. Open postcard: Long day preparing Serena Williams
New York — Thursday, Serena and Venus Williams handily beat the No. 1 team (defending champions Roberta...
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Optimum Performance: The triple whammy of knee injuries | NOLA.com
While on the road in New York working with our team to prepare No. 1-ranked female tennis...
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Optimum Performance: Sweating the small stuff — to a point | NOLA.com
While on the road with No. 1-rated tennis star Serena Williams at the Western & Southern in...
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Optimum Performance: Hamstring injuries nothing to take lightly | NOLA.com
NFL players have reported to training camp, and the 2013 football season will soon be upon us,...
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Optimum Performance: Inflammation more than just aching joints | NOLA.com
With NFL training camps now in full swing, those aches and pains the NFL players experience from...
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Optimum Performance: Sleep for your life | NOLA.com
“I’m tired.” You hear people say it all the time (my oldest son for example), but what...
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Optimum Performance: Hydration all the more important during summer months | NOLA.com
Now that summer is officially upon us, we Louisianans can usually expect heat waves that will last...
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Optimum Performance: Sleep for your life | NOLA.com
“I’m tired.” You hear people say it all the time (my oldest son for example), but what...
