RISE: Helping Athletes Set Goals and Achieve Them

Helping Athletes Set GOALS and Achieve Them

Athlete aspirations can vary from making a team and increasing playing time to playing at the collegiate level. Regardless, the importance of sports performance training is a key component to any athlete’s success in reaching those goals, and that is where RISE Sports Performance plays a role.

RISE Sports Performance (RSP) is based in Davie County and resides inside of the 120,000+ square foot RISE Indoor Sports facility. Offering specialized training for athletes of all ages, RSP Directors Caleb Mathis and John Lucchesi know what is needed to help athletes define their goals and then develop a plan that gets them there.

Lucchesi was born and raised in Johnson City, Tennessee and attended East Tennessee State University where he played soccer and studied exercise science. His experience includes working with athletes both in the weight room and on the field, serving as both a trainer and coach. After serving as the Captain of NC Fusion’s U23 soccer team, his career led him to North Carolina where he has been a part of the RISE team since its opening in May of 2021. Mathis was raised in Mocksville and graduated from Davie High School in 2013. He attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington on a track and field scholarship where he competed in the decathlon, 110m hurdles, long jump and triple jump. After graduation, he began his career as the Director of Speed and Agility for a private sports training facility from 2018-2021. In 2021, Mathis officially joined RISE Indoor Sports.

Lucchesi and Mathis lead programs to help athletes get faster and stronger, with the main goal of building athletes who are the best at their sport and ready to perform on game day. Through a combination of speed, strength and youth development programming, their focus is on establishing a strong foundation that leads to athletic development and success. In addition, Lucchesi and Mathis offer programming for adults looking to stay in shape, work towards specific goals and serve as an accountability partner. To learn more about programming available through RISE Sports Performance and Fitness, visit RiseIndoorSports.com/risesports-performance.

ABOUT RISE INDOOR SPORTS: RISE is located at 419 Twins Way in Bermuda Run. The facility has more than 123,000 square feet of regulation courts, fields and amenities making it one of the largest and most accessible indoor sports complexes in the southeast. Designed with the primary goal of building stronger, healthier communities through sport, fitness and health programs, the facility is versatile enough to serve everyone from the general public to elite athletes including local sports and fitness programs to large-scale tournaments. To learn more about RISE, visit them online at RiseIndoorSports.com.

FACILITY AMENITIES: • 8 high school regulation basketball courts • 12 volleyball courts • 28,000 square feet of sports indoor turf • 8,300 square feet dedicated to RISE

Sports Performance • 6,000 square feet Cardio Fitness

Center offering memberships to the public • 2,500 square feet for Atrium Health

Wake Forest Baptist Orthopaedics &

Sports Medicine • Space available for hosting corporate/ group events

When one of the amazing agents from Head Realty Group, EXP Realty, in Winston-Salem, vows to be your Realtor for life, you can rest assured he or she means just that! Karin Head and her incredible team take their role in clients’ lives very seriously, offering a conciergestyle level of dedication to all of your real estate needs.

That includes sharing the best professional advice, in a time when news headlines and an overload of information can be confusing.

“If we listened to media sources, the sky would truly be falling, and slamming right on top of housing,” explains Karin. “That’s why it’s a super great time to buy and sell!”

Always up-to-date on trends and current industry demands, she offers these wise tips for navigating the market and finding the perfect place your family is meant to enjoy for years to come!

Top Five Reasons to Get Moving

1. Housing inventory is definitely on the rise in our area.

2. New construction is booming in the

Triad and in North Carolina in general.

3. Interest rates are rising, which causes listing prices to correct, thus bringing back a more stable market.

4. Lenders, vendors and attorneys are working with buyers to refinance later. 5. There are so many options for buyers and sellers, it’s the right time to call one of their agents to put together a solid game plan! And, when it comes to winning the real estate game in any market, follow these true words of wisdom from Karin and her team, whose expertise is exactly the advantage you need.

1Hire an expert with extensive knowledge, well-cultivated relationships in the industry and years of firsthand experience.

2Do your homework, and ask questions! See Karin’s list of vital questions to ask your agent at Headrealtygroup.com.

3If you’re thinking of selling your home, research a prospective agent online to check out their marketing strategies. Do they market their properties well, or do they tend to focus on spotlighting themselves? Work to have every aspect of your property market or show ready. This isn’t the market of 2021 and 2022!

4Tackle any necessary improvements before listing your home. Research shows homeowners who remodel and update sell their properties, on average, 30% faster. Certain upgrades do tend to make a home sell faster: think repainting kitchen cabinets, remodeling the bathroom shower and refreshing your kitchen backsplash.

5If you’re in the market to buy, ask a prospective agent how they negotiate, who their backup or team is and organize details of the full process and your game plan together. Get out there and win the housing game!

Head Realty Group, EXP Realty, is located at 380 Knollwood Street, Suite M, in Winston-Salem. Contact Karin at Karin@KarinHead.com, or call the office at 336.283.8687. Be sure to like Karin Head, EXP Realty on Facebook, and follow her on Instagram @karinheadexp. Specializing in Residential. Luxury. Commercial.

Moving from Hot Mess to God’s Best in 2023

by LESLIE SPEAS

Are you a hot mess? Or, maybe just a warm one? Let’s just go ahead and admit that we all have our messy moments. For me (and I think for many of us), it’s mostly things that originate in my mind that contribute to my mess. Comparison, guilt, fear, rejection, people-pleasing and materialism to name a few.

Are we born with mess? I don’t think so. In my opinion, we accumulate it as we walk through life, a little more each day. Our earthly disappointments and experiences impact who we become. We try to protect ourselves out of fear and shame, and this limits our potential. We try to avoid rejection. We try to find our worth by pleasing others. We try to achieve success according to the world’s standards. If we don’t work to declutter our mess, it will hold us back from doing what we were meant to do and being who we were meant to be.

To make matters worse, our minds tend to go to negative thoughts. Paul says, “For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:3-5).

Paul mentioned strongholds. What are strongholds? Dictionary.com defines a stronghold as a place where a particular cause or belief is strongly defended or upheld. In short, it is a mindset or attitude that, in most cases, contributes to our mess. There are many strongholds that we may experience including issues like those I mentioned earlier. So, how can we overcome our negative strongholds and move towards God’s best for our lives as we enter the new year? Consider the following tips:

1. Foster awareness and acknowledgment of your strongholds

As with any issue we may face, the first step to recovery is awareness and acknowledgment of the problem, and a desire to truly change. Ask God to show you your strongholds and the resulting negative thought patterns that exist in your life. Once you are conscious of these negative mindsets, you can begin to take action to overcome them.

2. Fill your mind with good stuff and take out the bad stuff

The Apostle Paul challenges us to “not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of our minds” (Romans 12:1-2).

We can do that through a steady intake of God’s

Word. Think about the things that you are filling your mind with – television, social media, the news, books, etc. Have you ever heard the term garbage in garbage out? If you fill your mind with garbage, the result will be garbage. Instead, fill your mind with positive thoughts and love.

3. Be grateful

Humans are wired to focus on the negative. This bias is hardwired into our human nature and is designed to protect us. What is the remedy? Shifting your mind towards gratitude for what you have. Keeping a gratitude journal and recording at least three things that you are grateful can be helpful in practicing gratitude.

In conclusion, we are human and, since the dawn of our existence, have been prone to accumulate mess. However, if we nurture our relationships with God and actively work to demolish any negative strongholds that we have amassed, we can begin to realize our God-given potential and live unencumbered lives.