{"id":120,"date":"2010-11-18T01:06:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T01:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2019-01-19T23:26:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:26:43","slug":"what-really-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/what-really-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"What really matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We sit around and debate periodization schemes, toss around ideas on energy system development, and discuss movement.\u00a0 But really, in the grand scheme of things, how much does that matter?\u00a0 While it is certainly interesting and important, videos like the one below make me often question what it is I do for a career, as there are\u00a0professionals out there that are doing things which impact millions of people on a daily basis: doctors who are working to save lives, researchers who are studying the body to \u201ccrack the code\u201d behind fatal diseases, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong.\u00a0 I love this profession\u00a0 and\u00a0I can\u2019t think of anything more I am interested in doing.\u00a0 However, videos like this always make me think about if what I do really matters.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xCSzysu_flY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xCSzysu_flY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sit around and debate periodization schemes, toss around ideas on energy system development, and discuss movement.\u00a0 But really, in the grand scheme of things, how much does that matter?\u00a0 While it is certainly interesting and important, videos like the one below make me often question what it is I do for a career, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strength-and-conditioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}