Welcome to phantastic
Illustration by Ana Galvañ for phantastic
We live in a connected world with an abundance of data being generated, collected, and made available in near real-time to every athlete. Today, this data is not translated into actionable insights that drive breakthrough athletic results. We are here to change this.
We believe anyone can achieve new levels of performance by applying evidence based secrets of professional athletes. With this publication, we set out to create a destination to share these secrets with athletes that are always chasing faster and challenging the conventional. We are sharing with you the result of years of study and the ongoing pursuit of speed.
Welcome to the superhuman performance lab, where our sole obsession is to make you the fastest you can be while staying healthy and focused.
Our name originates from the ancient Greek word ‘phantastikos’ which means ‘able to imagine,’ in our case, performance that is out of this world.
Using a Greek word in our name, is a nod to the fathers of athleticism, the first to truly consider the balance between the body and the mind. We take a similar, holistic view of human performance, considering four interrelated building blocks: training, recovery, nutrition and mind. Peak performance requires balance, and deliberate focus on advancing each of these pillars of performance. There are no stones left unturned.
We believe each one of the pillars can be supercharged with data science, design and behavioral science — the capabilities that we bring to the scene.
phantastic starts as a a collection of essential articles on the topic of performance. We’ve designed these articles for athletes of all levels sharing a common drive: athletes who want to become their best performing self, are looking for an edge, want to shake things up, or are trying to achieve their breakthrough performance.
Our articles synthesize our learnings as athletes, experimenters, tinkerers, and endurance sports passionates. They are longer in nature, as each article is an inquisitive study of a select topic, bringing in experts to first dissect the topic and finally to extract the essence for you. As a result, each article is meant to be the only article you will need to read on the topic.
Given the intricate and in-depth nature of our articles, we plan to cover one topic per month. This collection will engage you like no other. It will surprise you, teach you something new, and delight you. This is our commitment and promise to raising the bar!
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We hope you enjoy reading our articles and through them reach new performance highs. We certainly enjoyed producing them and along the way got faster ourselves.
About the author
phantastic is a superhuman performance lab, on a mission to help athletes reimagine the possible and realize their potential. We are a team of athletes, coaches, and scientists. But more importantly hackers, tinkerers and experimenters, obsessed with chasing faster.
About the illustrator
Ana Galvañ is an illustrator from Murcia, Spain. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, El País and many others. We love her work and asked her to illustrate this piece.
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