Does the manner in which our competitive careers end impact our pursuit of fulfillment beyond? There are any number of different circumstances that can bring about the ending of a competitive career. We can be cut from a team, be injured in ways that diminish our effectiveness, simply age out of some required age span, […]
Welcome to Competitor Shift
Please follow this link to fill out our introductory survey. We will use information collected to insure that future posts and resources meet the needs of our readers. The game is over. The crowds have gone home. Accolades have been handed out, and you find yourself in the twilight of what once seemed an unending […]
Gifts Sports Give Us – Part Three in a Three Part Series
These posts are part of a series in which we examine three of the major understandings that are required of athletes in competition that also apply readily to the search for fulfillment and success in life after sports. Ultimately, while there are challenges in adapting to life after competition, we are equipped by our experiences […]
Gifts Sports Give Us – Part Two of a Three Part Series
These posts are part of a series in which we examine three of the major understandings that are required of athletes in competition that also apply readily to the search for fulfillment and success in life after sports. Ultimately, while there are challenges in adapting to life after competition, we are equipped by our experiences […]
Gifts Sports Give Us – A Three Part Series
These posts are part of a series in which we examine three of the major understandings that are required of athletes in competition that also apply readily to the search for fulfillment and success in life after sports. Ultimately, while there are challenges in adapting to life after competition, we are equipped by our experiences […]
Ebbs and Flows
The cyclical nature of sports, and how that relates to fulfillment. One of the realities of life as a competitive athlete is that our lives are very much subject to the cycles of our sport. Those cycles exist within different scopes of time, ranging from a year (Think preseason-season-postseason-offseason) or a competition (More like game […]
Three factors around which to build your post-competition fitness program.
How to accommodate the changes in our bodies over the long run. I am a former college football player, and for the first few years after I stopped playing, I worked out like one. I’d spent so many years with my training program centered around strength training and plyometrics, that when it came time to […]
The Post-Competition Paradox of Priorities
Why we can feel successful but not fulfilled in life after competition. Most people who live in the more serious levels of sport have the same list in their heads while they are competing. We compile a list of all the cool things we are going to do once we are done competing. It could […]