Yesterday four men were gored during the running of bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
But if you think the risk of serious injury failed to keep hundreds more from running with the 1,300-pound (600-kilogram) behemoths again today during the city’s famous multi-day festival, think again.
What it is that drives some to embrace extreme risks, while the rest […]

In a sense, eating disorders are diets and fitness or sports programs gone horribly wrong. A person wants to lose weight, get fit, excel in his or her sport, but then develops obsessive thoughts about food and training, ultimately losing control and ending up with body and spirit ravaged by starvation, binge eating, purging, and […]

Podium Sports Journal delivers the best of applied sport psychology and provides coaches and athletes with the practical mental conditioning tools and techniques necessary to achieve peak performance including important skills related to motivation, goal setting, competitive drive, overtraining, anxiety, anger, concentration, visualization and imagery, leadership, teamwork, coaching, recovery from injury, eating disorders, […]