Sport Performance

Sports performance can be thought of as a combination of sport specific skill, physical fitness and of course; mental conviction.

Sport specific skills are activities that are specific to each sport, such as correctly accelerating out of the blocks during a sprint, a cyclist’s ability to pedal through the full range of motion or a weightlifters ability to quickly get under the bar during a clean and jerk or snatch.

Physical fitness or conditioning boils down to your strength, power, endurance and injury proclivity. You often condition strength and power in the gym through resistance training and endurance through various anaerobic and aerobic activities in and out the gym. Applying your physical fitness in the context of your sport can take you to the next level.

Mental conviction underlies your ability to train both the physical conditioning and sport specific aspects of your fitness goals. The ability to push through hard sessions, stay motivated to train when you are not at your peak and even return to training after injury or extended breaks all is underpinned by your mental conviction and only get you closer to your fitness goals. The development of your mental ‘metal’ can be one of the greatest results of your fitness journey and can applied to various aspects of your life.

Athletic Performance and Strength & Conditioning

As physical fitness underpins performance across a range of sports, it is useful to focus part of training on improving strength through resistance training. Going to the gym can be used effectively to improve sports performance.

 Great core exercises to have in your regular programme are:

• Barbell Back Squat
• Bench press
• Deadlift
• Barbell Overhead Press
• Power Clean / Full Cleans
• Weighted Dip
• Weighted Pull Up
• Barbell Row

These are compound functional exercises that train key movements and have high transfers to sport performance. You will build strength through both muscle growth and increased motor neuron recruitment (which is where your nervous system becomes better at using its muscles)

Optimising Training with Functional Ingredients

During workouts your muscles are exerted and break down causing fatigue, when rested and provided with adequate nutrition they reform stronger. This leads to improvements in strength and endurance

Along with a suitable training programme and mindset, functional ingredients can be part of your fitness journey. At Aura Coffee, we wanted to make it simple to take healthy functional ingredients as part of a daily routine, so when it comes to training and performing you will always be your best self.

Creatine, HMB and Beta-Alanine, the latter two which are present in Aura Coffee, are all effective in aiding your resistance training.

• Creatine promotes high-intensity performance by rapidly replenishing ATP, promoting muscle growth, and increasing muscle volume
• HMB is one of the essential BCAAs and supports muscle mass maintenance and growth by reducing protein breakdown and enhancing protein synthesis.
• Beta-Alanine buffers acid build up, improving endurance and delaying fatigue.

By consuming these functional ingredients you can potentially achieve greater improvements in strength, power, endurance, and overall muscle mass, leading to enhanced performance and better training outcomes.