When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.
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If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.
The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.
A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
I would say that one of the hardest things for an athlete, and really anybody of any profession, is that we create our identity in what we do.
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.
I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
We judge athletes as if we all don't have trouble performing our various duties from time to time.
There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.
As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio.
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