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Craig Pickering

In Defense of Laziness

July 5, 2017/by Craig Pickering

Recently, I came across an interesting discussion on social media, pre-empted by this tweet from @damselndadugout: “Every single athlete on the planet says they work hard. Are there no lazy athletes out there? Or are some of them poor self-evaluators . . . ?”


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Tags: Featured, General Training, Genetics, Recovery Methods, Sports Science
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6 replies
  1. Julien
    Julien says:
    July 11, 2017 at 21:31

    I agree with that, nice to read thanks

    Reply

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Craig Pickering is the Director of Performance Sustainability for Athletics Australia. He combines his sports science background and experience as a world-class sprinter and bobsledder to help athletes in all sports.

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