The results showed increased flexibility in the injured Achilles tendon by 5%.

It’s hard to see what else could cause this change in 10 minutes.

The PPD she listened to was a normal Injury Recovery PPD, made for her personally and for injury and for her over activated survival instincts in the reptilian brain –fight/flight/freeze. It was 3 minutes long, she listened 3 times between the lab walks.

We plan to conduct further lab research using methods which will clearly demonstrate the effects of PPDs.

RESULTS OF PPD RESEARCH IN SPORT

Results of 10 Top Athletes’ Performance Using Mind and Body PPDs

The PPDs were used by athletes who competed at

• Olympic or Paralympic Games
• international competitions
• national competitions

This was a mixed group comprising:

• archers
• heptathletes
• wrestlers
• sprinters
• throwers
• long-distance runners
• high jumpers
• others

For each athlete a series of personalised performance downloads (PPDs) was made.

We chose athletics as our key focus in our research study, as individual athletes have definite performance markers:

• running time
• length or height of jump
• score, marking etc.

This allowed us to accurately measure the effectiveness of PPDs.

These top athletes convincingly demonstrated that PPDs do help athletes achieve higher levels of:

• athletic performance
• performance in life in general

1.  Personal Bests

• 60% of those who could achieve personal bests in a clearly measurable way did so during the period that they were listening to PPDs.
• All of these people had no experience with PPDs and in some cases a strong disbelief that PPDs could achieve anything.

For example, an international-level hammer thrower increased her throwing distance best from the previous three years by 70cms, and this was sustained in every throw, whether she was tired or not.

2.  Significant performance improvements

• Many of them had consistently increased performance and consistent personal bests compared to previous years.
• Even if they did not achieve personal bests, their performance steadily increased, competition by competition, in clearly obvious ways.
• For example, in archery, the arrows were all more tightly clustered around the bull's-eye consistently. Later, the archer shot up from nowhere in the rankings to No. 2 in the world while still listening to PPDs.

3.  Calming down
     In the final report athletes stated that they calmed down and subsequently:

• their focus and concentration improved, one of the clear reasons they performed better
• they paid less attention to their mistakes, were less stressed and nervous, less distracted by others, and could concentrate more intensely upon the task
• less time was spent ruminating over mistakes.

4.  Better sleep and/or waking up refreshed

5.  Increased Speed

6.  Increased Creativity and Enjoyment
In some cases, creativity markedly improved, and athletes reported

• developing new moves or remembering old ones
• performing just for fun
• enjoying their sport more
• becoming more creative in their coaching and enjoying it a lot more, as did their students.

7.  Increased Energy
Almost all of the athletes reported significant increases in energy in their sport activities and also in their personal lives.

8.  Time Management
Athletes reported:

• being able to do more things within the time available.  
• taking up new activities like learning a language; one added another job to her schedule – training kids – and, to her surprise, still being able to organize her time effectively.
  

9.  Improved eating habits
Several sports people reported improved eating habits as well as better control over their appetite.

10. Improved learning

• Naturally, with the increased concentration in their personal lives, students also increased their ability to learn. It was very common to report enhanced learning ability and passing exams with greater calmness, composure, and so on.
• In one extreme case, one athlete went from reading 10 books in his lifetime to reading three in a month while listening to PPDs because he could concentrate so much better.  

This whole research was carried out in a span of 6-12 months.

From scientific point of view it was just a pilot study. Our plan is continue with research.

The results of the effects of PPD used by sports people are mutually confirmed by the effects of PPD used by non-sport participants of the research.

EXPERIENCES OF ATHLETES AND COACHES WITH PPDs

MIND PPD

 

MARKÉTA S., archery, international and paralympic level, cz

Markéta is an archer competing on the international and paralympic level. This year she won the silver medal in the World Championship. “Listening to PPDs calmed me down. I could concentrate better. I could literally see the arrows cluster closer together. I could see the results in training and in competitions.” (Oct 09)

ROMANA G., hammer throw, national and international level, cz

Romana is an athlete, her discipline is a hammer throw. This year, while on PPD she finally achieved long awaited shift in her personal best. See more in video testimonials.

JANA S., sprint, national representation level, cz

Jana’s results improved gradually from one competition to another, and overall improvement in one season was four second in 300metres competition.

JERONÝM B., wrestling, a coach, cz

Jeroným is a wrestling coach who wanted to try PPDs along with his son, Marek, and found out it was a good thing to do. See more in video testimonials.

 

BRANO R., ice-hockey, sk

"My self-confidence increased and my psychology in the game improved. I have more energy on the ice. I am more agressive in duels, which is what I needed. I concentrate more during the match and I have better focus on the game itself." (Oct 09)

JANA S., sprint, national and interantional level, cz

Listening to your downloads led to greater focus and concentration at the start and during actual competitions and therefore to improvement of my current personal bests and records. This season was particularly successful and I attribute this partly to this successful research and the downloads. Thank you. (Nov 2009)

PAVEL B., yachting, international level, cz

“In my sport it is very difficult to say if or on what the PPDs worked. The only thing I needed to work on was my short temper and difficulties in communication and that seemed to improve.  Where I usually reacted with anger I let things be, and if there is a more excited exchange I usually forget it within ten minutes. Which I consider an improvement.“ (Sept09)

PETER M., 3000 m/ hurdles, national and international level, cz

“There were certainly some changes, my results gradually improved. I topped my personal best several times, nevertheless I would not assign this to PPDs but to the changing in my training and in my diet. Overall I feel I calmed down.  I feel more content, I get to sleep better. I relax better, I read, rest, go fishing... It is difficult to believe this technology.“ (July 09)

GABRIELA S., archer, national level, cz

"PPDs literally calmed me down. My concentration improved. I changed the technique. At the beginning of June I was very nervous and my performance got worse temporarily. I told myself I didn’t  want to be nervous anymore and from two bad attempts I improved by 50 points, which was a break point for me. Then when I made a mistake I just told myself, well, ok, let’s just go on... Apart from the temporarily getting worse, PPDs worked well to support my concentration." (Sept 09)

Z.P., archery, national level, cz

"I listened regularly up to PPDs and then I stopped for a month. I was finishing my grammar school and I felt the downloads were more disturbing than helping. And after that I did not listen regularly. The greatest impact PPDs had on me I noticed after about three weeks of listening. I achieved a very clear improvement in my score results and most of all I was calmer and more balanced. I managed to keep that all through the season. The clearest effect I observed about myself was the ability to concentrate during the whole competition. Some competitions, e.g. the first league, can last up to nine hours and the actual shooting takes about five hours. Perseverance, strength and energy stayed about the same. At the peak of the season I achieved my personal best by almost ten points which is relatively a lot. During the listening I lost some weight, but only two kilos, and it could have been caused by the stress during my finals at school and not PPDs. I noticed my sleep improved - it is longer and more refreshing. I do not observe any other significant influence of PPDs in my personal life." (Oct 09)

BODY PPD

MARTA S., archery, national level, cz

Marta is an archer in the senior category. She started archery only five years ago, but this year she won the Czech Championship competing with considerably more experienced archers.

KATEŘINA K., heptatlon, national & representation level, cz

“I listened daily and more often before competitions.  I felt some influence after about a month. I achieved my personal best in the first competition of the season.  I improved my high jump by three centimetres. I won silver in the Czech Republic championship and was representing our country in the European Cup. I calmed down and concentrated better. I did not worry about making a mistake so much. My speed and perseverance improved but I think it was caused by adjusting the training. I get up more refreshed in the morning and it’s easier to get up. I find it easier to concentrate on the studying and work. I don’t get so distracted by others. I handle my temper better. Not that I wouldn’t get upset or angry anymore, but I process it faster and I let it go fast. Communication with my coach improved.“ (July 09)

 ADÉLA CH., sprint, national representation level, cz

“This season was successful. In July I achieved my personal best. The influence of PPDs I see in the fact, that I feel more confident and that I can take up the challenges that come better. I concentrate better and I calmed down. I clear my head and do not stay with a problem.  I noticed my breathing improved. I lost 3kg and I feel good, at the moment the weight seems to be stabilized." (Sept 09)

MAREK B., wrestling, national and international level, cz

“I listened regularly and within a month I felt that I calmed down, I was less stressed, less nervous. And I felt more confident.  It was easier to adjust my weight. My study results improved too.” (Oct 09)

 TOMÁŠ Z., wrestling, national level, cz

“I think PPD calmed me down. I am not so nervous. After my injury  I regained my physical strength back quite quickly. I concentrate better. I started to swim more. A considerable change occurred in the morning – I always used to have problems to get up, it took me a long time. Since I started PPDs I get up easily and at least about an hour earlier. Since I started PPD I read already three books, I used to read much less before." (July 09)

LUCIE S., long jump-triple jump-sprint, national representation, cz

“I listened often. I noticed some changes in the fact that I felt better psychologically. In sport I noticed more body awareness. I was more patient. I saw the mistake better and could correct it. I don’t need so much sleep, and my stress level is lower. When I am active I concentrate better. Technically I noticed some changes. I am not sufficiently motivated though, since I do not consider my career in sport. I do sport for joy.  I noticed those shifts but it was still difficult to believe this technology.” (July 09)

PETER M., 3000 m/ hurdles, national and international level, cz

“There were certainly some changes, my results gradually improved. I topped my personal best several times, nevertheless I would not assign this to PPDs but to the changing in my training and in my diet. Overall I feel I calmed down.  I feel more content, I get to sleep better. I relax better, I read, rest, go fishing... It is difficult to believe this technology.“ (July 09)

ČESTMÍR STRACK, head of a sports centre and a coach, cz

“I have just finished the Mind PPDs which I listened to regularly every morning.  I am quite a physically active person but I still noticed certain shifts in physical as well as psychological level. My reactions are faster. I feel more energy, my dynamic endurance has improved and I am more balanced. My communication during training has improved as well. I changed my attitude towards the sports people I train. I do not tell them what mistake they make, but rather teach them to see the mistake themselves and the result is much more effective.” (February 10)

BODY and MIND RECOVERY

L.K., 28-year-old tennis player, cz

“I hurt my knee on 5 May 2009.

Torn meniscus and front crossed ligament.

During the first days I would listen to my injury PPD almost constantly. I was surprised how calmly I accepted the fact that I was hurt and would be off my training and my life career for a while. In the past that would have meant the end of the world.

There were two surgeries in the following month.

The first surgery was a small one – an arthroscopy. They sucked out the torn part of my meniscus and found the torn ligament. Recovery from this first surgery was very fast: I could walk without crutches after two days and run after 10 days. There were no complications; the wound healed well.

After the second surgery – the bigger one – there was a drain tube coming from my knee to fill a little plastic bottle with blood that was supposed drip from my knee after the surgery. I could see other patients with the same diagnosis whose bottles were almost full of blood and some nasty stuff.

My bottle was almost empty and the drain was dry inside after a few hours.

When the doctor checked me after 4 weeks he was surprised my knee looked so good: there was almost no swelling. He wanted to send me to rehabilitation, but it was too early, as rehabilitation is never undertaken sooner than 6 weeks after surgery.

When I first visited my doctor who takes care of the rehabilitation procedures, he was very happy with how my leg looked and said the surgeon had done an amazing job.”

V. H., 31-year-old ice-hockey player, national level, cz

"In December 2008 I was injured during a match. My rotator got damaged and my muscle under my scapula got torn. Usually this kind of injury is dealt with an operation. In my case and after a consultation with my doctor, we decided to go along with non invasive treatment - combination of rehab, PPD downloads, homeopathy and will.  This option worked wonders. Beginning of February 2009 I was already on the ice and played with no limitations from the injury. For a short while I occasionally felt a little pain in the injured area but this is now gone and today I am absolutely fit."

R.B., 31-year-old high jumper, an international/Olympic level, cz

She had an injury to her springing ankle and had two operations.

• Her recovery was very fast, much faster than expected. 
• The doctors fully expected her to be on crutches for two weeks, but she was walking within a week and jogging within a month. 
• She can now use her springing ankle to full capacity without it swelling.
• She is jumping again and pleased with her recovery, both in terms of speed and quality.