Red signals dominance in Nature as well.
Sarah Pryke at Macquarie University in Sydney studied a bird called the Gouldian Finch.Genetically, they can be either red or black headed, and the redheaded ones almost always win such breathtaking contests as who gets to the bird feeder first.
Pryke took young finches whose heads were not yet colored and put a red head mask on half of them: this simple transformation turned them into aggressive and dominant winners.
And Sara Khan and her team from Dartmouth College in the Ivy League discovered something similar with wild macaque monkeys in Puerto Rico.
They looked at how likely these monkeys were to steal food from a researcher wearing a red t-shirt compared to a researcher wearing a green or blue outfit.
The monkeys were much less likely to approach the researcher wearing red to try and steal the food.
5 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR PERFORMANCE BY NATURALLY INCREASING YOUR PERFORMANCE.
1. Wear Red
2. Eat plenty of fat and cholesterol
3. Avoid sugar
4. Get your supplements in order
5. Power pose
1) WEAR RED
See above!
2) EAT PLENTY OF FAT AND CHOLESTEROL
Here’s how your body makes testosterone:
Cholesterol –> pregnenolone –> androstenedione –> testosterone
Testosterone begins with cholesterol. In fact, every single sex hormone you make you synthesize from cholesterol – that’s one reason a “heart healthy” low-fat, low-cholesterol diet limits your performance. Fat and cholesterol don’t make you fat.
They give your body the building blocks to create abundant testosterone and other sex hormones, which actually makes you lose weight and build muscle, especially if your current testosterone levels are low.
Some common breakfast foods like Kellogg’s corn flakes and Graham crackers were invented 100 years ago to lower male libido.
Kellogg and Graham believed that male sexual desire was the root of society’s problems, so they set out to make bland foods that would take away libido, CRAZY:)
That low fat, grain-based thing absolutely works wonders for lowering testosterone.
There are two keys to incorporating fat in your diet: getting enough fat and getting the right kinds of it.
A study from 1984 looked at 30 healthy men who switched from eating 40% fat (much of it saturated) to 25% fat (much of it unsaturated), with more protein and carbs to make up the difference in calories.
After 6 weeks, their average serum testosterone, free testosterone, and 4-androstenedione (an important hormone for testosterone synthesis) all dropped significantly.
The other component of that study is that the subjects ate much less saturated fat. Saturated fats are common in meat, butter, and coconut products, and they’re crucial for your body to function.
Saturated fats keep the integrity of your cell membranes, and if you limit carbs and/or do saturated fats become a phenomenal source of energy for your brain.
Great sources of fat include grass-fed beef and lamb, butter from grass-fed animals, pastured egg yolks, coconut oil, raw nuts, avocados, and wild-caught fatty fish.
3) AVOID SUGAR
Sugar is to testosterone what kryptonite is to Superman. Eliminating sugar is probably the single most powerful way to increase your performance, in part because sugar absolutely devastates your testosterone levels (but all carbs do not, especially under heavy training.)
In one study of 74 men, a 75g dose of sugar – about the equivalent of a bottle of soda – decreased serum testosterone by 25% in under an hour, and levels stayed low for at least 2 hours.
GET YOUR SUPPLEMENTS RIGHT
Our Playmaker All-Natural Testosterone Booster is a Simple, Power supplement you can take to boost your testosterone.
POWER POSING
Posing in powerful stances causes your testosterone to increase within 20 minutes.
Power posing for just a few minutes also dropped cortisol and boosted confidence. It’s a great way to start your day, or to give yourself an edge before a big practice/game. See a Video of my son Maceo learning the power of the power pose here.
The Little Things are more Important than the Big Things.
I’m a big believer that the little things are more important than the big things. This is because we do a lot more little things in our day to day compared to big things and these little things add up.
Wearing red in competition, doing a power pose, or taking our jacked supplement may seem like small things but as I hope you have learned in this article they can lead to big results!
Let’s get Better Today,Chase “SuperAthleteCEO” Jackson.
