sues (all made of cells) are the players; the heart, lungs, digestive system, and immune system are regularly among the figurative leaders in scoring, rebounding, assists, and defense, all under the direction of the coach's game-plan, with the nerves acting as the assistants to ensure the players know their responsibilities for improving the well-being of the team. To round out the analogy, the director of basketball operations
would equate to structural alignment, without which the balance necessary to ensure a winning culture would simply be made far more challenging than it needed to be; the training staff takes care of the exercise necessary to ensure the body is in peak physical condition; and, finally, practice would serve as the comparison to stress management, in that there is a strange assumption among some circles that practice is not actually necessary to achieve optimal results – even a team with all of the innate talent in the world would not be able to win the ACC Championship and a #1 seed in the Big Dance without practice. The piece that ties a winning program together is recruiting,
college basketball’s version of nutrition. Contemplate how fre- quently the cells (players) that make up the organs, muscles, and tissues of the body are produced and recycled. Every 6-8 minutes, the cells of your stomach lining are replaced; every 4-6 weeks, your liver cells are renewed; every four months, you have fresh blood cells. Our bodies make new cells with the food that we consume, so the quality of our cells is dependent on the quality of the materials that we feed our bodies. Would you rather “recruit” new cell production from a fast food restaurant or would you rather “recruit” a higher caliber player (i.e. non-GMOs, real food, fruits, vegetables, etc.)?
Wellness and winning are an expression of the efforts put
forth in each area of health. Unquestionably, the coach and his assistants, the AD, the director of basketball operations, and practice regimens (i.e. the optimal function of the brainstem/brain/ nervous system, structural integrity, and stress management skills) lay the groundwork for a top-tier, extraordinarily healthy college basketball team, and recruiting is just as important. How well – and, most importantly, how consistently well – your cells are replenished is a major part of the difference between elite health (28-5 record periodically with deep runs in the tournament), above average-to-good health (20-10, fringe tournament team), or just plain mediocre (18-15) or poor (10-20) health. Excellent health is a desire to be cultivated in all of us, even
those of us who have underlying circumstances that make becom- ing the Kentucky basketball of mental, physical, and social well- being far more challenging. Remember, some of you begin your journey toward changing your life when your “program” is in shambles, in need of revamping at every level (think Wake Forest this decade); some of you are looking to regain your powerhouse health position after a couple of down decades (think NC State); some of you have more limited resources (think Wichita State or Davidson); some of you strug gle to maintain the necessary better habits to sustain your health (think Virginia Tech); all of you, though, have the ability to put together a winning formula.
Written by Chad McIntyre, DC of Triad Upper Cervical Clinic, 432-A West Mountain St., Kernersville. Call 336.992.2536 for an appointment of visit
TriadUpperCervical.com for more info. See ad on page 22.
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