Niemann brings mental health message to athletes


Niemann brings mental health message to athletes


.....The core of Niemann’s program is brain health — how to establish it during critical youth development years and then maintain it for life.

Properly applied, he said the strategy “will improve athletic performance, academic performance and make you a better human being.”

“This goes beyond the [basketball] court,” he told the Trapper women.

Nutrition, he said, “is vitally important” to both brain and body function.

“When your brain gets drained,” Niemann explained, turnovers, injuries and poor performance across the board will spike upward without fail.

Of equal importance is adequate sleep which, along with proper nutrition, is bound to be lacking in college students — athletes and otherwise.....

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Bethany`s Notes: This guy has got it! The Mental EDGE camp is very similar. We speak to knowing yourself and knowing what your body and brain need to function at a high level in sport, school, and life.

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