TOP EARNING ATHLETES

1.       Floyd Mayweather: growing up in the modest area of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Floyd Mayweather, born in the family of boxers, had only one dream, becoming the king of the ring, and when it comes to money, he is at the pinnacle. On May 2^nd 2015, Mayweather fought the fight of the century, winning the fight, and also earning $100 million from one single fight.  Who would have imagined this boy who lived in New Jersey with his mother, living a life without basic necessities such as electricity and a proper roof, will become the highest earning athlete in the history of sports. Tough he may not be a fan favorite, there is sometime till someone displaces him from his number one earning position. He currently earns $300 million a year of which $285 million comes from winning and $15 million from endorsements.

2.       Manny Pacquiao: Nick named “Pac Man”, Manny is a world champion professional boxer from Philippine. He is the first and only eight division world champion. Forbes ranked him 14^th highest earning athlete in 2013 but that was soon to change. Cometh May 2^nd 2015, Manny was the opponent of Floyd Mayweather in the fight of the century, and though he lost, he still made serious money from the fight which propelled him the 2^nd spot in our list of highest earning athletes of 2015 with total earnings of $160 million of which $148 million came from winnings and $12 million from endorsements.

3.       Cristiano Ronaldo: A skinny lad from small town of Madeira, Portugal, was destined to rule the world of football. With no stable source of income in the family and dreams money can’t buy, Ronaldo struck the footballing arena storming into the theater of dreams, showing his unmatched talent before signing for Real Madrid, arguably the biggest club in world football, the rest is history. From his ever-changing hair styles to the most expensive car on the road, Cristiano has it all. Today this man boasts of having the most number of followers in social media, and is a unique combination of most loved and hated superstar of all time. Whatever he does becomes the news. His magical brilliance on the field and amazing good looks off the field helps him grab the most lucrative endorsement deals. He currently sits on 3^rd spot in our rankings with total earning of $79.6 M in total with $52.6M coming from salary and $27M from endorsements.

4.       Lionel Messi: People always use superlatives to describe something they cannot explain. These superlatives apply most to Lionel Messi. While football has always been the magicians’ forte, his huge fan base also lets him sit on the biggest endorsements and pay cheques. While he dribbles past the defenders at lightning speed, he also earns huge sums of money, all doing the thing he loves the most, playing football. With Barcelona having won the treble this season, the harvesting time for Messi and his brand M10 has just begun. Aged 27, he has a lot of years of playing time ahead of him. Already believed to be the best footballer in the history of the game, his brand seems to be only getting bigger. He currently sits at 4^th spot in our list with total income of $78.3M of which $51.8M comes from salary and another $22M from endorsements.

5.       Roger Federer: Nick named “King Roger”, Federer is regarded by most commentators and fans as the best player to have stepped on the tennis court. He held the world no.1 position for 302 weeks which includes 237 consecutive weeks at the top. Federer is one of the highest earning athlete in the world and the highest earning Tennis player in the world thanks to his 10 mega endorsement deals with Nike and Rolex to name a few. As he looks set to play a few more years before hanging his boots, his huge fan base is enough to keep his stock high in the market in the coming years. He currently earns $67M in total of which $9M come from winning and $58M from endorsements. He currently occupies 5^th spot in our list of highest paid athletes.

6.       LeBron James: LeBron James is a fine example of a child prodigy who delivered good when he came of age. James played high school basketball at St. Vincent-St. Mary High school in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. He plays for Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) at small forward and power forward positions and is their all-time leading goal scorer. James has been named by Forbes as one of the most influential athlete. His heroisms on the field and popularity off the field have helped him bag the most lucrative endorsement deals with big brands such as Nike. He was also the first black man and third overall to feature on the cover of vogue magazine. Today he earns $64.8M in total of which $20.8M come from winnings and $44M from endorsements. He sits comfortably on the 6^th spot in our ranking of the highest paid athletes for the year 2015.

7.       Kevin Durant: Another child prodigy, a heavily recruited high school prospect, Durant attended University of Texas and played college basketball for one season winning various awards throughout the year. He currently plays with Oklahoma City Thunder in NBA at small forward position. Kevin Durant is a fan favorite and a philanthropist. His jersey always ranks as one of the most selling in NBA and his endorsements and fan base keeps his bank account strong. He currently earns $54.2M in total of which $19.1M come from winnings and another $35M from endorsements. He currently sits at the 7^th spot in our rankings.

8.       Phil Mickelson: Nicknamed “lefty” for his left handed swing, Phil Mickelson is a professional American Golfer. He is also part of the unique club of 16 golfers who have won at least 3 out of 4 professional majors, US Open being the only professional major he has failed to win. Phil may be ranked only a second on the PGA Tour’s all-time money list, his source of income majorly depends on the endorsements. His mega endorsement deals with KPMG, ExxonMobil, Rolex etc. makes him one of the highest-earning athletes. He currently earns a total of $50.8M of which $2.8M come from winnings and another $48M from endorsements. He currently sits on the 8^th spot in our list.

9.       Tiger Woods: Nicknamed “Tiger”, Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods is an American golfer. Woods was born to break records and he did it with great style over the years that he graced the golfing arena. He has been the world no.1 for most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks by any golfer. Woods was once the most marketable athlete. In the year 2000, Woods signed a 5 year $105M contract extension with Nike, which was the largest endorsing deal ever signed by an athlete at that time. Woods endorses Nike, Gillette, and Gatorade and also endorses The Tiger Woods PGA Tour series of video games. In 2009, Forbes named Woods as the world’s first athlete to cross the one billion earnings mark, the same year his net worth was estimated to be $600M, making him the second richest Afro-American. He currently earns $50.6M of which $0.6M come from winning and $50M from endorsements.

10.   Kobe Bryant: LA Lakers see him as a savior in most torrid situations, others consider him a senior citizen aged 36. Kobe Bryant is a professional NBA player and has played his entire life for LA LAKERS at shooting guard position. He is the all-time leading scorer in LA Lakers history. Kobe had the highest salary in NBA for 5^th consecutive year in the 2014-15 NBA season. His deals with Nike, Lenovo, Hublot and Panini gives him enough money to make it to the 10^th spot on our rankings of highest-earning athletes of 2015. He currently earns $49.5M in total of which $23.5M come from winnings and another $26M from endorsements.

I hope you like it, cheers.

Nishant Awasthi

THE GRADUATION OF THOUGHTS

Bigger cars, better roads, better house, and the comforts never ever seen before. These are one of the foremost thoughts that cloud the minds of most of the young school pass-outs of small cities when they make the decision to go to a metropolitan city for taking up higher education.

Yes, there are students who have been conditioned to believe that their lives are not complicated till the time they continue to achieve the targets set for them by their surroundings and most of the times these students surround themselves with people of similar ideals. They study their hearts out and often make it to the campus they thought they were destined to.

Most of us, though, are not those souls. We are feathers flying in wind currents and it is the currents that determine where we will ultimately land up. For those of us who land up in a new bigger city, the things that await us are such we never thought of. Life changes dramatically and their thoughts and ideologies are challenged every minute by people who by appearance look like us, but whose ideas, thoughts and priorities are different. Then and there, starts a war within us. A war that eventually defines who we really are.

The five emotions that this new environment forces upon the student the most are love, lust, happiness, satisfaction and desire. These five radical emotions are put to test every minute in the new surrounding dominated by new people and this ferocious bombardment of ideas question the individual's conditioning every minute and he is left with nothing but smoke dust that cloud his judgments and leave him confused.

He realizes that to be a part of this new environment he has to embrace it, though he does not fully understand the changes and its impacts. His conditioning reacts to every change he faces and the war grows thicker. He knows his priorities, those which lie in getting better grades and eventually landing up a better pay package and a life of comfort. But as this new environment offers him new, never felt before impulses, the freedom of thoughts, the freedom of action, and the freedom of choosing illusions he likes. The bird eventually breaks the cage to explore new and never seen before horizons, thinking that he knows what this path has to offer. "I have a book report due tomorrow but the gang is heading towards a pub". The conditioning confronts freedom and eventually looses. Sacrificing a class test for a fun night is one of the first battles between the old conditioning and this new impulse of freedom and more often than not the free bird flies.

Time flies by and the old conditioned concepts of love, lust, desire, happiness and satisfaction are replaced by new concepts of love, lust, desire, happiness and satisfaction. The feelings though remain the same, but the scales and parameters change.

Now the student does not want the job that just pays him well, now he wants to work at a place he feels he belongs to, and he will not settle for anything less. The old small-town girlfriend is replaced by a new, more exciting and attractive soul. Life seems perfect, time goes on....

Until.. there again comes a roadblock.

His new surroundings had been serving him well till now because he has molded himself to accept the surroundings, but the law of nature is that nothing stays constant. Change is inevitable and it happens again. His new conditioning is again bombarded with a new set of ideas and again.. the poor soul is left confused.

Changes might be numerous. A jolt in love life, which makes him deny the existence of love,  flunking in exams, which concludes in reasoning that a college degree and a job do not actually mean anything and a free man ought to live a free life. Lack of satisfaction which concludes to lack of happiness which alarms for changes again. The circle goes on. By the time this student leaves college he feels he has nothing with him and no one by his side. His surrounding society expects a lot from him and he feels he is alone in this cruel world with nobody to share his dilemmas with.

If you feel related to this student, this article is written for you. Do not give in to negativism. Do not become enemy of yourself. Life is nothing but a circle of complex illusions. Don’t feel alone living in a world where your thoughts are tied to yourself. Instead, fly.. find people who understand you, and yes there are people like you. Become a master of your fate. Create your own illusion that you love, and the universe will conspire to make you happy. Do what you do best. Break the cages and fly.

Nishant Awasthi

SIMPLIFY DIABETES

KNOW YOUR BODY AFTER WORKOUT

what you need now?

ü  Good amount of Protein so that your body could shift itself from catabolic stage to anabolic stage
ü  Good amount carbs so that it helps to lower cortisol levels as insulin work against increased cortisol levels
.ü  Whey protein –whey protein is the best kind of protein after workout as it digests fast which helps you to build more muscle than slow digesting protein 

PLAN YOUR DIET BEFORE YOU HIT TO THE GYM

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Plan your diet as per your workout

·         Carbohydrates-

65% of your diet should be from the carb. For example, if your daily requirement is 1500 calories then 975 of your calories should be mainly from the carb.

Formula-Daily calorie*65/100 will give you daily carb intake.

·         Protein

 Protein requirement can be increased from 1 to average consume 1.2g of per body weight. A 60kg person should need 72gms of body weight to meet his daily requirements.

Formula-Body weight*1.2 will give you exact requirement of protein.

Calculate calories from protein- 30% of your daily calorie should come from protein. suppose my calorie requirement is 1500 for per day then our 450 calories should be from protein sources.

Formula-Number of calories per day*30/100 will give you exact requirement of protein.

Fats- Fats intake should be low during post training as it may as it may halt the rate of digestion after the workout. Other than that keep your fats in liberal amount. It has been recommended.

BEFORE YOU AIM FOR WIGHT LOSS

·         Set up your goals - Do not go  unplanned. The very first thing you will going to do is set up an ideal goal for yourself. Aim for not more than 4 kilograms to lose per month which means target yourself 1kg for 1 week. Make sure your goals are realistic and yet achievable..

·         Pin your inspiration-“I left my weight loss program in between”.  Many of us do the same because we don’t actually remind our goals. There is need of an inspiration and motivation that constantly push up you to lose more to achieve more. Such inspiration could be your old dress, A picture of your ideal person and the best way simply write your goal on a piece of paper  and pin on the  places where you visit almost daily and frequently.

·         Analyze your body- Everyone has their weak and strong points on the basis of which your body adapt to those changes. Like talking about me, “I cannot live without food but yes I can reduce my snacking”. So it would be best for you to choose your weight loss regime as per your body needs but not as per everyone needs. Ask some few more questions to yourself.

·         Can I actually maintain setup good routine to initiate weight loss?

·         Is, this is the right time when I have to start?

·         At what time you feel you are the hungriest person in this world?

·         How much time I can devote to myself to workout

Now, we have goals, our inspiration and some of our body needs, weakness, and strong points. Yes, we are all set to kick start with our weight loss.    

Everyone can start up with weight loss program, but only few can stick to it and remaining get back to their normal eating pattern within a month or so. So keep in mind:

ü  First few weeks practice the change within you

ü  Develop good lifestyle

ü  Maintain regularity

ü  Improve eating Habits

ü  stick to your resolution