According to legend, when Sanya Richards was 16 years old in Junior high school she told her father or also doubles up as her coach “I don’t like the feeling of losing, and I’m willing to do whatever you say it would take for me to be the best,”
Her father immediately designed a core program that featured a thousand crunches daily.
Food diet of a future champion
On the other hand her mother, a former gym instructor back in Jamaica, put Sanya Richard on a food diet of chicken, fish and vegetables.
As adopted from a Sanya Richards story on USAToday
written by Constantine Njeru
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A good reason why running is not just for the young.
As Mexico City Games decathlon champion Bill Toomey once said in Track & Field News: “Competition’s too much fun to be left to the kids.”
If you stopped engaging in sports you must have forgotten the last time you had fun. Maybe you should join a running club and remind yourself how fun life is.
written by Constantine Njeru
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