The Flex PLAYBOOK
Dynamic Stretching vs. Static Stretching: What’s Best for Pre-Game Warm-Ups?
Learn the difference between dynamic and static stretching, and discover the best pre-game warm-up strategy for peak performance. Includes rollout and mental prep tips from FLEX.
Building Mental Resilience: Techniques for Athletes Facing High-Pressure Situations
Pressure in sports is unavoidable — but mental resilience can be trained just like strength or speed. This article provides practical techniques athletes can use to stay focused under pressure, including visualization, breathwork, and pre-performance routines. Discover how building mental toughness can boost performance and confidence when it matters most.
Sleep Hygiene for Athletes: Maximizing Recovery Through Better Sleep
Discover the key sleep hygiene tips every athlete needs to boost recovery, improve performance, and stay injury-free. Learn how optimizing your sleep routine during pre-season can give you a competitive edge—plus, get my top product recommendations for better rest.
Unlock performance: Why Tune Up fitness® Massage Balls Belong in Every High-Performer’s Toolkit 🌀
Discover the powerful benefits of Tune Up Fitness® massage balls for athletes, parents, coaches, and busy professionals. Learn how these portable therapy tools improve mobility, relieve muscle tension, and accelerate recovery—perfect for enhancing performance and preventing injury.
Sleep is Your Superpower: The Key to Athletic Recovery & Peak Performance
Discover why sleep is the ultimate recovery tool for athletes. Learn simple, science-backed tips to improve sleep, boost performance, and build resilience this off-season.
Ten superfoods to consider adding into your diet
We’ve all heard about superfoods, but what truly fuels athletic and mental performance is understanding how the right balance of protein, carbs, and fats in your diet works in your favor. Keep reading:
Powerful Meditation for Performance and Faster Recovery
Meditation is a fundamental part of training for athletes of all levels, especially at the professional tier, because it can improve your recovery, boost your game-day focus, and even help prevent injuries.
Ways to Unlock Tension and Boost Flexibility with Self-Myofascial Release (For Athletes and Employees!)
If there’s one thing I’ve come to appreciate most about being a mobility and mental performance coach, it’s how seamlessly what I teach my high-performing athletes translates into other populations, especially the workplace…
CRUSH YOUR RECOVERY WITH THESE 3 RESTORATIVE STRETCHES FOR FOOTBALL PLAYERS
In this post, I’m revisiting my most popular blog post: Recovery Stretches for Football Players, with an updated overview and an emphasis on post-game, post-weight training sessions.
Athletes find this combination of breathwork and stretch especially powerful in letting go after a tough game, and moving positive energy and power towards the next opponent.
Dealing With the Mental Pressures of Continuous Improvement
The relentless drive to keep improving as an athlete is a double-edged sword. While pushing limits is key for progression, it also invites ⚡intense⚡ inner pressures.
Managing these demands requires bringing conscious effort to your mindset and methods. Here are my top four recommendations:
How to Move Forward: The Power of Short Term Memory in Overcoming Athletic Injury or Defeat
You don't have to be a prisoner of past stumbles. Like champions clearing hurdles, we can learn to leap over these mental roadblocks.
Learn about 3P's - Pain, Posture, Performance
I’m “fascianated” by the nine techniques the four different sized Yoga Tune Up® therapy balls bring awareness to, how it affects our fascia from our heels to the top of our head and how this affects our breathing and enhances mobility (if you are a science anatomy nerd like I am or just want to feel good in your body, you should be too!!!)
Post Game Day Recovery: 3 Stretches for Football Players
Here are my go-to yoga poses that aid the body (and the mind) with recovery time and stay on top of mobility before Monday’s football practice.
4 Reasons Athletes Should Meditate
Some athletes with a lot of talent, can not convert the mental game, (the fierce competitiveness that comes with the sport) and meditation improves that subconscious activation or what other experts called "the zone or flow state".
Welcome to Flexin' by Julie Mackey
Although I teach yoga and meditation, my passion and purpose is helping humans live better lives on and off their playing field or court (whether that be on the gridiron, the ice, or the corporate boardroom.)