active release works very well with many of the athletes she looks after. She ensures her athletes are educated about how their body works and what treatments she is providing. Through the years of working with Turner, Glaesser has come to understand her body a little better. “When Jenn treats me, generally she’s always telling me about the injury I have… she’s been able to help me relate what’s going on with my body to what I’m doing to it. “I think it’s really important for athletes to learn about how their bodies respond to the training that they do and be able to prevent injuries from happening,” Glaesser says. Being surrounded by a multidisciplinary team of health professionals is a benefit that many elite athletes enjoy. Not only do they learn more about how their body responds to their training, but also how to take care of it and adopt a healthier lifestyle through coaching from the experts. De Grasse says he’s learned a lot about how to eat healthy from the nutritionist that’s supporting athletes like him at the University of Southern California. “We have team meetings every week to discuss the things that we need to have, like protein, carbs – everything that we need to be successful,” De Grasse says. The discipline that he has achieved through training includes being aware of what he eats and how food intake plays a role in his performance. LIFE OUTSIDE SPORTS This is De Grasse’s last semester in university as he is set to complete his degree in sociology. Despite his busy ath-letics career and the success he is having on the track, finishing school was always part of his plan. It was a prom-ise he made his mother, and he plans to keep it. “My mom has been very supportive of me and I’ve al-ways told her that – I promised her – that even though I turned professional, I was going to go back to school and finish,” De Grasse says, adding in whatever he does he is always trying to make his mother and his family proud. As for Glaesser, she is planning to take a short break from cycling as she enters married life (she got married in the latter part of 2016). She is also a full-time student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. She has another year and a half left before she completes her degree in computing science. Like De Grasse, finishing school and focusing on life outside sports is also important for Glaesser. “I think it’s important for athletes to balance their ath-letic career with career that has more longevity and the family as well,” she says. “I’m not just doing it for myself; I’m doing it in a way that includes the people in my life.” www.canadianchiropractor.ca CC_CCMC_February17_CSA.indd 2 February 2017 Canadian Chiropractor 27 2017-01-18 7:31 AM
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