Performance — Domain Index

Focused catalog of the 13 substantive articles in wiki/performance/ (plus 2 redirect stubs). Cross-project consumers (e.g. fitness/health writing, high-performance coaching applications) should read this first before drilling into specific pages. For the full KB map, see INDEX.

Athletic practice

• athletic-roots — Gymnastics as the source of coaching metaphors: physical courage, pacing, injury recovery, coach-athlete relationship
• fitness-and-training — Training principles (talent vs. training, quality effort, slow practice), CrossFit, HIIT, marathon running, injury recovery, Guinness records, exercise-as-brain-intervention primer
• martial-arts-and-fighting — GSP's philosophy: fear as fuel, adaptation over strength, dinosaur vs. cockroach, cross-training systems, truth-telling coaches

Stress, performance, and the body

• stress-and-performance-science — Hub page for the biology and psychology of stress and performance
  • stress-mindset-science — McGonigal's stress-as-enhancement, DHEA/cortisol growth index, expectations and performance, conviction vs. confidence
  • performance-optimization — Deliberate practice neuroscience, sleep research, visualization science, nutrition

Brain, cognition, recovery

• exercise-and-brain-health — Cotman & Berchtold BDNF and neurogenesis, Blumenthal & Babyak exercise vs. antidepressants, Winter running and learning, Colcombe & Kramer fitness-and-aging meta-analysis, Oaten & Cheng self-regulation spillover, Köhler motivation-gain, Taylor exercise reduces cravings
• sleep-and-cognition — Pilcher deprivation meta-analysis, Durmer & Dinges neurocognitive consequences, Walker & Stickgold sleep-memory-plasticity
• brain-plasticity-and-cognition — Luders meditation gray matter, Klimecki compassion vs. empathy training, Berman nature and attention restoration, Miller prefrontal executive function, DeYoung Big Five brain structure, Gould triune-brain critique

Extreme performance

• extreme-human-performance — Hub page for case studies at the outer edges of human capacity
  • endurance-and-limits — Karnazes (ultramarathon), Molchanova (free diving), Diaz (Olympic weightlifting)
  • adaptation-and-mastery — GSP (MMA cross-training), cave rescue divers, common patterns across cases

Team performance

• esports-and-gaming — Midgame voice analytics, Georgia Tech esports research, communication as the #1 team performance problem, the esports-to-coaching transfer

Redirects

These stubs exist only to resolve older wikilinks. Substantive content lives at the target.

• exercise-and-cognition → exercise-and-brain-health
• sleep-science → sleep-and-cognition

Related domains

Psychology of motivation and willpower sits in frameworks-index (self-control, grit, motivation-and-goals). Coaching applications of stress-as-enhancement live in coaching-index (cofounder-conflict-physiology). Full map: INDEX.