
#THE MINDFUL ATHLETE PROFESSIONAL#
But when you hear about professional athletes bowing out of competition or taking time off for mental wellness, the approachable subject of mental health still is taboo because it's a reactionary medicine man approach in our present system that you only go and discuss mental fitness when there's a problem. What problem is your company solving? “We're solving the problem that mental health isn’t cool because if you think about the physical wellness space, exercise, nutrition-it's very sexy, which makes it approachable.

The service that comes after every one of our athletes receives a bioQ is the mental fitness training portion, which - through what we refer to as platform training - teaches the individual to become more aware of their physiology and how it integrates under severe duress, which we refer to as the chaotic moments of life.” The bioQ mental fitness assessment gives light to otherwise intangible factors that we all know contribute to peak performance but never had a quantifiable metric to accurately represent it. When you think about the ability to be calm yet focused or stay engaged during any activity, whether it be athletics or in the boardroom or in the military, a first responder - life is a performance and there's an athlete in all of us. The assessment quantifies the intangible elements of human performance. How does your product/service work? “Our product is bioQ, a mental fitness assessment which allows an individual to have a better understanding of their physiology and the ever-changing variables of how people perform. He is our current head of Mindful Athlete Training operations, mental skills, as well as our Director of Learning and Development.” He's a former Division-I volleyball player and professional volleyball player who brings a strong business acumen and consulting background. Who are your co-founders/partners? “My partner is Dr. When I conceptualized Mindful Athlete Training in 2016, I wanted to provide more real-time information for athletes to come into more clarity that they can change their physiology as needed and leverage systems for peak performance.” When I opened my own practice, I wanted to provide more of a pathway for athletes to realize their ceiling of performance was, in fact, glass. I wrote my dissertation on the attentional style and locus of control for high-collision athletes, providing a mindfully-based stress reduction alternative as a treatment. I always wanted to conduct research when I committed to getting my doctorate. I was an All-American football player at Lehigh University along the way and sustained a rather severe injury my senior year.

Lee Picariello attended Lehigh University as a psychology undergrad and received my master’s and my doctorate both at La Salle University in Philadelphia. Mindful Athlete Training CEO and founder Dr.
