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Have you reached the end of June and noticed that you just don't have the motivation you had back in January? Are you falling asleep earlier in the evening and having to force yourself to get out of bed in the morning? Does it seem that you are no longer the first one to arrive at the track and one of the last to roll onto the track for practice? If these symptoms sound familiar, you are probably facing a case of mid-season burnout.

As a racer, you can withstand a lot of stress (i.e. racing) and high load levels (strength training, cross training, etc.), but you reach a point where we need take a step back and recover, both mentally and physically. Let's consider the characteristics of burnout and review some strategies to help you overcome this situation:

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There is no secret that during training, your efforts are 90% physical and 10% mental and on race day your results are 90% mental, 10% physical. Ironically, most racers are aware of this; however, in my 28 years of working with racers, not one of them has ever presented themselves to my office with a mental program in place. As I frequently say, “Your success up to this point is completely accidental and your future success is not guaranteed”. The reason why I say this is because they don’t know what they did to achieve the success that they have enjoyed, nor do they understand why their performance results have begun to suffer. Let’s take a look at the science of fear and then create some strategies to get you to front and stay there.

Announcements were made at the first Regional that the winners of the Regional Championships would receive Moto 1 gate selection priority at the National. Although this was under consideration, upon further review it is apparent that the current programming will not allow for this procedure without substantial changes, nor would the change benefit the overall competition.

Furthermore, Supplemental Rule D.3 states that “Riders who qualify in more than one Regional Championship will advance to the National from the rider’s ‘home’ region.” Under this scenario, riders winning non-home regionals would not be able to benefit from their accomplishment.

Accordingly, further development of the new process is required prior to implementation. To clarify, at the National all first-moto gate selections will be made by random draw.

For further questions, please contact Jeff Canfield at JCanfield@mxsports.com.

June 16, 2013

10 am - 4 pm

FREE practice for all riders, NO spectator fee

Concessions will be available for purchase.

We will also be giving out the awards for the overall winners of the Best of Alabama/Georgia series.

Make plans now to attend this very fun day and let us show you how much we appreciate each and everyone of you!!!

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This often neglected aspect of training & racing could possibly be the missing ingredient to reaching your full potential as an athlete. Are you getting enough?

Dedicated athletes leave no stone unturned in their eternal quest for performance improvements. They log many of hours on fatigued legs and nasty weather and train alone on stretches of roads all by themselves as they grind out interval workouts that push them both mentally and physically to the next level of ability. Despite this extraordinary dedication, most athletes grossly neglect an aspect of training & recovery that would seem to be common sense: sleep.

Sleep is not just something that athletes should not “make an effort” to do – it speeds up recovery after workouts. And research shows that getting adequate sleep reduces the risk of serious health issues such as obesity, cancer, heart disease, heart attacks, high blood pressure and diabetes, and prevents the general impairment of our immune system.

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Over the last five four weeks you have been following a complete training program to improve your identified weaknesses in your performance ability: muscular strength, endurance and/or lactate tolerance. [Note: if you haven’t signed up for your FREE 10 Week Complete Training Program, please email me directly and I will send you the first five weeks of this program plus Week 6: Re-testing & Assessments.]


In addition to nutrition & training protocols, you have been provided some soft tissue maintenance protocols (i.e. foam roller and isolated stretches) that you can easily implement to your daily routine to improve your range of motion for reduced risk of injury. Please email me if you would like me to send you a series of foam roller exercise, trigger point therapy and single muscle isolated stretching exercises.

April 5-7, 2013

MillCreek Mx Park

Pell City, Alabama

Friday Practice will begin at 12:00 noon due to the weather forecast on Thursday. This will give everyone a chance to arrive and enjoy a full day of practice. Saturday and Sunday will be beautiful and rain free.

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Robb Beams – CompleteRacingSolutions.com Anatomy of Speed Series – Training Smart, Not Hard! Over the last four articles, you have been provided motocross specific training protocols (both on and off the bike) to improve your speed and endurance and, from the feedback of thousands of riders all over the world, significant improvements have been noted. [Note, if you haven’t been keeping up with this series, please reference the bottom of this article for all of the steps leading up to training weeks #3 and #4 for optimum results.]

Inside your skull you have cerebrospinal fluid and of course your brain. A violent impact causes your brain to vibrate and sometimes even bump against the skull bone. If the force is too much, you end up with a concussion. Ironically, the trauma that occurs when the brain hits the skull, there is often no evidence of injury because the damage is on the inside, within the medical world it is known as the “Silent Injury” according to Dr. Lovell from the University of Pittsburgh’s medical center which researches concussions.

Once common mistake is assuming that because you didn’t get “knocked out”, then the hit to your head was minimal. In fact, if you experience vomiting, dilated pupils, loss of smell or taste you should visit with a neurologist immediately. Additional negative symptoms after a head impact are headaches, dizziness or memory loss lasting more than 5 day or delayed memory of easy questions (i.e. what did you eat for breakfast yesterday morning?).