Des Cota

Empowering individuals daily;building strong bodies through movement&strong mindsets through mental training
CPT, MA Sport Psych,
Functional Patterns HF Cert.

[Coach Alex @Ramichie82]

Looking for 1 more woman jumper to come train with a 6.43m woman jumper who finished 24th in the NCAA

Come get developed like she did!
5.98m -> 6.43m in 2 seasons!

[New Mexico XC/T&F @UNMLoboXCTF]

𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓶𝓹𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓧 4

Back where he belongs, Habtom wins his second outdoor 10K championship and his fourth career National title.

#GoLobos

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

81-year-old Kenton Brown completing a sub-30 time in the 200m dash is insane....

[Jumpers World @jumpers_world]

8.75m (+3.2) for Tafadzwa Chikomba 🇿🇼 while barely touching the board!!! 🤯🫨

The 19th longest jump of all-time under all conditions!

[NM State XC/T&F @NMStateXCTF]

Aggie fans, join us in welcoming Charlize Fraser! 🤠

A 2023 National Champion in the 200m (U20, 🇨🇦), Fraser also holds personal bests of:

60m - 7.80
100m - 11.75 (+2.9)
200m - 23.66 (+2.5)
400m - 55.02

#AggieUp

[FLAVOR FLAV @FlavorFlav]

It’s happening,, it’s all happening. Flavor Flav’s SHE Weekend was approved by the Las Vegas Clark county commissioners today and we throwing a historic free public party and celebration with a parade on the Las Vegas strip.

[NM State XC/T&F @NMStateXCTF]

Congratulations to Amanda Radava for setting a new personal best in the 1500m and taking home the bronze! 🥉

#AggieUp | #NoLimitsOnUs

[NM State XC/T&F @NMStateXCTF]

YOUR 100M CONFERENCE USA CHAMPION 🏆

Marlee Cavitt blazes down the track with a time of 11.38 - a NEW SCHOOL RECORD‼️‼️

#AggieUp | #NoLimitsOnUs

[NM State XC/T&F @NMStateXCTF]

YOUR 2026 CONFERENCE USA 200M CHAMPION 🏆

Marlee Cavitt DOUBLES UP and takes the 200m crown with a time of 23.40! 💯

#AggieUp | #NoLimitsOnUs

[Camus @newstart_2024]

“TikTok is the fentanyl of social media.”

Jonathan Haidt didn��t mince words on the High Performance podcast. He called it the number one destroyer of attention, focus, and executive function in kids, and by extension, human potential.

He sees students in his class spending six hours a day on it. Not scrolling casually, living there. Skipping homework, skipping friends, just endless algorithm-fed dopamine. The Chinese version keeps kids focused and limited. Ours? It weaponizes micro-pauses to push pro-anorexia content to teenage girls in days. No social graph, just pure brain-hijacking precision.

That hit me hard. We’ve normalized something that’s quietly rewiring an entire generation’s ability to think deeply or sit with discomfort. I’ve gotten stricter at home because of stuff like this - the data is too consistent to ignore.

In a world selling constant distraction as entertainment, protecting real attention might be the ultimate parenting (and self-parenting) battle left.

What’s been your line with TikTok or short-form apps — full ban, strict limits, or something else?

[NM State XC/T&F @NMStateXCTF]

We’re ready to go far 🎇

#AggieUp

[Wendi A. Irlbeck MS, RDN, LD, CISSN @Wendi_Irlbeck]

Youth sports is on life support.

If you think it’s fine, you’re not paying attention.

Kids age 10-12 are playing way too many tournaments and travel ball. Parents treat it like the World Series. They need less travel, more rest, fueling, and actual development. They’re 12 YO.

The data backs it up:
❌70% of kids drop out of organized sports by age 13.
❌Professionalization (year-round single-sport focus, heavy travel/tournaments) drives overuse injuries, overtraining, and burnout.
❌Nearly 1 in 10 youth athletes experience burnout; up to 35% deal with overtraining.
❌Early specialization before 12-13 raises injury and burnout risks significantly.

Multi-sport kids who rest and play for fun stick around longer and develop better.

Let them be kids. Prioritize recovery, fun, and long-term health over trophies. The best athletes often sample multiple sports early and specialize later.

Who else sees this?

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

The University of Chicago will guarantee free tuition for students with family incomes below $250,000 starting in Fall 2027.

Students with family incomes below $125,000 will also receive free housing and meals.

[Orietta Rose 🇺🇲 @0riettaRose]

Elementary school teacher has a list of things she says parents are NOT ready to hear.

[Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht]

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine.

What went wrong?

In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms:

1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder.
2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology.
3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it.

The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress.

This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does.

Link to paper: https://t.co/ucoGyhEuAj

[ahstrailblazertf @ahsblazertf]

@EpfranklinTf @TXFHSCougars @Fchavezeptimes Congratulations!

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

What happens when you make people take a break from doing what they love?

In one study, researchers took regular runners and triathletes and made them take 2 weeks completely off.

No exercise. No cross-training. Just rest.

The result? Big spikes in feelings of depression,…

[NM State XC/T&F @NMStateXCTF]

Deja vu? 🏆

Presley Edwards takes gold in the javelin for the second time in El Paso with a mark of 40.76m (133-8")!

#AggieUp

[Franklin Boys Track and Field @EpfranklinTf]

Your 2026 Texas Relays 4×400 champions! @TXFHSCougars @RTorres_lll

[FLAVOR FLAV @FlavorFlav]

@FightinPhils26 I CARE. And they ain’t failing. Women’s Sports is one of the biggest and fastest growing industries.