{"id":2703,"date":"2024-06-18T21:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T21:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2024-01-04T16:12:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:12:05","slug":"nicole-stout-a-fighting-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Stout: A Fighting Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Growing up <\/em>in a household of athletes, it was only natural that Nicole Stout began competing in sports by the age of 3. While her father and brother practiced judo under Olympian Patrick Burris, Stout chose to focus on gymnastics and ballet. By age 12, she was competing as a rhythmic gymnast on an international level. However, she quickly burned out. <\/p>\n

\u201cBetween being bullied by my teammates and struggling with the negative body image ideals my coaches forced upon me, I knew I had to quit,\u201d Stout says. \u201cI\u2019d always wanted to make an Olympic team, so quitting was very hard for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redirection<\/h3>\n

Burris suggested she try her hand at judo, and against her father\u2019s wishes, Stout accepted the challenge. Her father was concerned for his little girl\u2019s safety in such a physical sport, but proving to him that she could be just as good as her brother became Stout\u2019s driving force.<\/p>\n

After working hard for a year to build her judo essentials, including strength, flexibility, balance, power, endurance, speed and agility, Stout finally won her first match and was hooked. She did sustain a couple of potentially career-ending injuries on the mat, including a broken foot and a torn ACL, which she incurred during the Judo National Championships, but Stout pushed on. She trained under some of the biggest names in the sport, including Japanese national champion Shinjiro Sasaki and four-time Olympian Jason Morris, and she earned her way onto various championship teams around the world. Currently, she\u2019s a 2020 and 2024 USA Judo Olympic hopeful.<\/p>\n

Fueling Her Fire<\/h3>\n

Stout practices judo twice a day, hits the weights daily and squeezes in twice-weekly cardio sessions \u2014 a grueling schedule that relies on proper nutrition and supplementation. \u201cI eat a lot of fish such as salmon and tuna because they have so much protein and fantastic vitamins,\u201d she says. The CarnoSyn-sponsored athlete also makes sure to include a carb and a vegetable to ensure a complete meal. <\/p>\n

Stout is no stranger to pursuing goals and drawing inspiration from successful people in her inner circle \u2014 her parents hold multiple doctorates, and she works closely with Olympians on a daily basis \u2014 and has big goals for her future. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to be my most ambitious year yet,\u201d says Stout, who is currently pursuing a degree in computer science at Harvard. \u201cI\u2019m competing every month and attempting to qualify for the World University Games, where I would represent Harvard and the United States in a tournament second only to the Olympics.\u201d <\/p>\n

Where does her father stand on her decision now? \u201cHe is proud that I am a fighter like he is,\u201d Stout says. \u201cHe is excited to see what I will accomplish as I continue on my judo journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information, go to\u00a0<\/em>team.carnosyn.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Growing up in a household of athletes, it was only natural that Nicole Stout began competing in sports by the age of 3. While her father and brother practiced judo under Olympian Patrick Burris, Stout chose to focus on gymnastics and ballet. By age 12, she was competing as a rhythmic gymnast on an international level. However, she quickly burned out. \u201cBetween being bullied by my teammates and struggling with the negative body image ideals my coaches forced upon me, I knew I had to quit,\u201d Stout says. \u201cI\u2019d always wanted to make an Olympic team, so quitting was very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[963,114,204,205,206,203,207],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens-health","tag-carnosyn2019","tag-healthy-living","tag-mind-and-body","tag-motivation","tag-style-and-beauty","tag-womens-fitness-personalities","tag-womens-health","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/high-end-life.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}