Hi there, welcome to Body & Soul Online. My name is Rui Carvalho and I will be explaining what you need to know to prepare yourself for any type of physical performance event. Whether you’re doing a 10km run, preparing for a team or individual sport, or even a long hiking trip, some general guidelines can be followed to enhance the preparedness of your body to meet whichever challenge you accept. These guidelines are meant to optimize performance while reducing the risk of injuries.

In this series I will be going over some steps that will incrementally prepare your body physically and psychologically to the demands of the event you are preparing for. The series begins with an analysis of what the task you are preparing for requires and how far you are from those demands in your current state. Once we know what demands will be placed on you and how far you have to go to get into performance shape, we can chart out a course to get you there. We will determine which physical abilities need to be developed and then plan out how to optimize them in the leadup to the event or sport season so that you are able to meet those demands while lowering injury risk.

The following videos will go through these steps in further detail. Let’s get started!