Rachel Neylan, OLY

Everyone needs to hear this…

One More Time For The People In The Back 🧵 1) There is insufficient high-quality evidence to confirm or refute universal menstrual cycle phase based responses in [sports]women This is more than a lack of consensus amongst the scientific community, this is a lack of credible data

This is Pommel Horse specialist Stephen Nedoroscik. He didn’t move from his spot for two hours while he simply waited for his one special moment. He mentioned that he is cross-eyed and that he can inexplicably switch his dominant eye. Before his routine, Nedoroscik removed his glasses. He told "TODAY" that if he kept his glasses on, they would fly off mid-routine. And now because of him, we won our first medal in gymnastics in 16 years.

What makes a champion? New analysis of over 6,000 athletes finds those who got to world-class, had during their youth: -more multisport than specialized practice -started their main sport later -accumulated less practice -Initially progressed slower than national class peers

Hard pill to swallow; The only thing holding you back is your inability to do the work that you know you need to do, without witness or immediate reward for a long enough period of time.

Why don't airports have gyms?

What if doctors prescribed free fruit & vegetables to improve health? Here, 16 weeks of free produce delivered to ~5000 people was associated with (vs control group): 🔹 increased physical activity levels 🔹 reduced non-HDL cholesterol 🔹 reduced Hba1c (marker of blood glucose levels)

When I was just starting out in venture, a very experienced VC gave me the this advice: "Our best investments are the ones that don't squarely fit our model. They're too high priced, or low ownership, or off thesis, or maybe the founder doesn't reference well. The fact that we were willing to break our rules to invest was a signal that it was a special company. We put rules in place not to follow them, but to know when something is an extreme outlier" I think about that all the time.