Stepping out of your comfort zone is the norm for competitive athletes. Highly motivated athletes are expected to train harder, perform better for optimal results. High performance is easiest under ideal conditions. If you’ve been competing for any length of time, you know conditions … [Read more...]
How Triathletes Can Avoid a Fast Start
Too frequently triathletes are told by their coaches to ignore what is going on around them. The coaches who tell you to just not do it are unaware of the power of habit. Following the crowd, going out too fast because of the other athletes around you, is a symptom of a habit. Under pressure, you … [Read more...]
Why Triathletes Start Too Fast
"While this is tough, I am a whole lot tougher." James Loehr How fast you go out at the beginning of a race is a personal decision. Some athletes end up giving away that control without even realizing what they’re doing. Quickly you are caught up in the energy of those around you. When you … [Read more...]
Coaching: My perspective with a little research thrown in
This week I've decided to cover a topic I don't think I've ever discussed in any depth here before: coaching. *Note that the following contains my perspective on the role with a little help from the recent research on the subject. The importance of a good coach and their respective attributes is a … [Read more...]
Athletes Prepare to Release Pre-performance Anxiety
Pre-race jitters are brutal. The confidence gained during practice quickly disappears. It’s replaced by all sorts of crazy thoughts along with feeling out of sorts. Athletes from all sports are prone to pre-performance anxiety during their competitive career. The anxiety cycle prior to … [Read more...]
Javelin Thrower Kara Patterson: Expectation can do funny things to people
Motivated Athletes Seeking Their Dream Team
You are the average of the people you spend the most time with. As an athlete how do you feel when you think about the other players on your team? Notice how it feels in your body when you think that thought. Are you sensing tightness or expansion in your body? The feeling you are having is … [Read more...]
A bit of psychology
Sports psychologist Nicole Lavoi gives us some perspective on Notre Dame point guard Skylar Diggins' headband. Diggins will leave the headband on if she feels she's playing well, and take it off if she's disappointed in her own play. Lavoi says Diggins might want to be more consistent with these … [Read more...]
The Power Of Positivity
source What you export into the world will eventually be imported back into you.– Things You Must Never Say Aloud I believe in being positive…mostly because the alternative seems like a drag. Who wants to mope around all the time complaining about life? According to positive … [Read more...]
8 reasons athletes don’t achieve success
“Greatness is never rewarded to the stupid.” This quote was texted to me by a good friend on the heels of a discussion we had about athletes who have a bad race and decide they have to go home and train harder. It got me thinking about all of “stupid” things we do as athletes … [Read more...]