Weldon Teaches Optimizing Your Performance

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You Are What You Eat, Sleep, and Play

Lesson 5

Weldon teaches you the ways a healthy routine can dramatically improve your practice by covering:

  • The importance of nutrition and diet in creating best practices for gaming

  • How processed foods and snacks negatively effect your performance and increase your “ping”

  • Weldon’s basic recommendations for how to shape and balance your diet

  • The importance of exercise and physical activity in maximizing your performance

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Aimlabs Challenge

Throughout your week, incorporate planned breaks (ideally involving physical activity) roughly every 45 minutes during a gaming session. Share what you did on your breaks or your general experience with Weldon’s courses on Aimlabs using the #youare” hashtag.

Lessons

A Peaceful Mind
Lesson 1

Weldon helps you understand the crux of his work in professional esports by:

  • Defining Mindfulness and its application in sports & esports

  • Outlining the benefits of Mindfulness and focus training

  • Mindfulness techniques for extracting maximum value out or your training

  • The importance of facing your mistakes and accepting reality

Talking Tilted and Taming Teammates
Lesson 2

Weldon delves deep into the psychology and behaviors of tilting by:

  • Defining what being tilted is and what it’s not

  • Techniques for handling tilt in yourself and in teammates

  • Different ways to inspire teammates through leadership

  • Understanding how emotions naturally impact people in tilting situations

The Anxiety Monster
Lesson 3

Weldon breaks down a mental state that gamers commonly struggle with, covering topics such as:

  • Different types of anxiety and the unique way it affects gamers

  • Healthy coping mechanisms for handling anxiety

  • Anti-choking techniques - understanding how your brain learns new skills and how anxiety disrupts your execution

  • Ways to effectively train for main stage including embracing chaos and repetition

  • Performance hacks that can help you perform on-stage

To Go Pro
Lesson 4

Contextualize your own learning goals in esports by exploring:

  • Weldon’s take on the relationship between age and performance in esports

  • The value of education for people interested in gaming industry careers

  • What to look for in a good coach and the best ways they can add value to your learning (improving your mirror & model)

  • The importance of identifying your preferred learning styles and motivation

  • Advice for each stage of becoming a professional player

You Are What You Eat, Sleep, and Play
Lesson 5

Weldon teaches you the ways a healthy routine can dramatically improve your practice by covering:

  • The importance of nutrition and diet in creating best practices for gaming

  • How processed foods and snacks negatively effect your performance and increase your “ping”

  • Weldon’s basic recommendations for how to shape and balance your diet

  • The importance of exercise and physical activity in maximizing your performance