Peak Performance — Style Enhancing Sportswear

Lately our Sunday nights have been re-energised with the weekly release of sports docuseries The Last Dance. This entertaining journey about the successes and failures of Michael Jordan and The Chicago Bulls has shifted our attention to the mindset of athletes. Sports channels are revisiting iconic and emotional moments in sporting history, including Flo-Jo’s record breaking 1988 sprint where she became the fastest women in the world, Billie Jean King’s stoic 1973 Battle of the Sexes tennis match with Bobby Riggs, and the ‘crawl of fame’ Iron Man finish of Julie Moss — a student who had entered the race as part of her thesis on physiological and training considerations.

For us amateurs, exercise has been reframed as a daily allowance, a moment of freedom for physical and mental training away from everything else — designed to make us better. To help stimulate some positive neurochemicals, we have edited a selection of sportswear items to accompany your daily training schedule. Suitable for all levels and pursuits, whatever your flow.

1. ’90s Chicago Bulls Sweatshirt
2. Stand Alone Check Shorts
3. Filippa K Soft Sport Crew Neck Top
4. Georgia O’Keefe Museum Cap
5. Nike Air Max 98 Premium Unit Totale Sneakers
6. Falke Tennis Socks

1. Photograph via Giedre Dukauskaite
2. Sport & Rich Wellness Sweatshirt
3. Outdoor Voices Soccer Longsleeve T-Shirt
4. Filippa K Soft Sport Biker Short
5. Acne Studios Face Motif Half-Zip Jacket
6. Asics GEL-Kayano 5 OG Sneakers

1. Sport Ceres
2. Sophie Buhai Small Velvet Scrunchie
3. Terry T Estate Shorts
4. Classic Crocs in Neo Mint
5. Terry Il Pareo Jumpsuit in Bianco
6. Entire World Sweats in Green

BBC — Flo Jo — the American Sprinter with Hollywood Style
YouTube — Florence Griffith-Joyner — Womens 100m — 10.49 seconds
New York Times — Triathlon; Winner Who Didn’t Finish First
Biography — Billie Jean King
Radiolab — Limits of the Body — Interview with Julie Moss
Psychology Today — The Neurochemicals of Happiness
Spotify — The Last Dance — Playlist
Guardian — Is the Michael Jordan Documentary a dressed-up puff piece?
Tony Robbins — Secrets of Peak Performance