When it comes to sport, performance is everything. Your performance in one game could determine whether you and potentially your team move up into the next league or onto the next game.
EyePromise is the Official Eye Vitamin of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox and the #1 eye doctor recommended and trusted vitamin, with thousands of US optometrists prescribing and millions of dosages consumed in the US. EyePromise works with athletes who seek to maintain their bodies in absolute peak condition to ensure that their performance stays strong. Whether you’re a professional or not, EyePromise has helped many active individuals see and perform better by improving visual acuity, reducing glare from the sunlight, speeding reaction times and most important, maintaining optimum eye health.
How does eye health impact athletes?
One of the most ignored factors of our physical health is our eye health. Many people assume that their eyes can just be left to cope on their own, or look to corrective lenses or contacts for the immediate solution.
But our eyes are delicate, just like the rest of our bodies, and need to be looked after, literally. This is especially vital if you’re an athlete, as performance can certainly be affected by factors such as visual processing speed, visual acuity, glare sensitivity, and light sensitivity.
These can all make the difference between a hole-in-one, a home run, a put into the net, a kick in the goal puck or multiple whiffs. These factors also help determine how well you can see the pitch, read the greens on a golf course or how quickly you can react to external stimuli, like a baseball flying towards you or a football passed at you.
Without the proper care, these elements of athletes’ eye health can suffer, ultimately impacting their performance.
How are athletes improving their eye health?
EyePromise’s Vizual Edge supplements are NSF Certified for Sport and one of the best ways to support eye health towards better performance.
By taking all-natural supplements full of patented amounts of zeaxanthin, lutein, zinc, omega-3s and vitamins, EyePromise has developed a supplement that tackles all areas of eye health to help improve visual acuity, reaction times, light sensitivity, glare sensitivity, and contrast sensitivity while also reducing any dryness and irritation.
Reducing sensitivities allows athletes to perform at their best, even under glaring sunshine or stadium lights. As a world-class golfer and Ryder Cup Champion, Padraig Harrington can attest. The golfer reported that he was able to see “the contrast in the greens” much better after a few months of using Eye Promise Vizual Edge Pro. His confidence in his game also improved because he was able to “see the line in the putt,” and he shared, “when my confidence in my line was better, I was able to put better!”
Why are athletes improving their eye health?
The role of visual performance factors in sports, be it in the NFL, NHL, MLB, or the PGA has received a lot of attention over the years, yet most athletes have limited access to evaluation and enhancement approaches. Studies have shown how much nutrition can help athletes with strength, speed, agility and overall performance. Dr. Graham Erickson, OD, FAAO, FCOVD, covers this topic in-depth and helps athletes, trainers and sports dietitians train for optimal vision, eye-hand coordination, and most importantly, to be as successful at their sports as possible.
Competitive athletes are continuously searching for ways to elevate their performance in their sport. Most of the focus is on the development of requisite physical abilities, such as strength, speed, agility, and endurance. The other major focus is on skill development for specific sports applications, often requiring significant repetition with feedback about optimal biomechanics. Depending on the sport, athletes also may work on the psychological issues that can impede or enhance performance.
