Meet My Partners: Trieye Sunglasses with Built-in Rearview Mirror
Over the last few years, I’ve established great relationships with some outstanding sports companies. I’ve partnered with them because they embody what I value in sports-related gear: innovative design, superior quality, and leading-edge performance, comfort, and looks. Over the next several weeks, I’ll be introducing these exceptional companies to you so perhaps you will explore […]
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Train Your Mind for Athletic Success Podcast: Episode #36-Training and Competitive Routines
Episode #36-Training and Competitive Routines of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the second of two episodes that explore the essential role that routines play in ensuring total physical and mental readiness for practice and competitions. For you to get the most out of your training efforts, you should develop a brief […]
Read MoreHow to Ease the Grind and Finish Strong in this COVID-19 Race Season
It’s hard to believe that we’re in the homestretch of this weirder-than-weird Covid-19 race season. It’s late March, so only about a month of racing to go. You want to keep your ski-racing mojo high and finish the season strong. Let’s first put this season in perspective. Quite simply, we’re lucky to even have had […]
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Meet My Partners: Jakroo Custom Apparel
Over the last few years, I’ve established great relationships with some outstanding sports companies. I’ve partnered with them because they embody what I value in sports-related gear: innovative design, superior quality, and leading-edge performance, comfort, and looks. Over the next several weeks, I’ll be introducing these exceptional companies to you so perhaps you will explore […]
Read MoreInside the Tri-Mind: Let Mindset Power You to Triathlon Success
“Mindset” is an essential and little addressed contributor to triathlon success and a mental area that has only come to light in my work with triathletes during the past few years. Let me preface this discussion by clarifying that my use of the word mindset is different from the use of mindset popularized by the […]
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Meet My Partners: Greg Rhodes, Ph.D., Exercise Physiologist & World-class Endurance Sport Coach
Over the last few years, I’ve established great relationships with some outstanding sports companies. I’ve partnered with them because they embody what I value in sports-related gear: innovative design, superior quality, and leading-edge performance, comfort, and looks. Over the next several weeks, I’ll be introducing these exceptional companies to you so perhaps you will explore […]
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Train Your Mind for Athletic Success Podcast: Episode #35-What is a Routine?
Episode #35-What is a Routine? of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the first of two episodes that explore the essential role that routines play in ensuring total physical and mental readiness for practice and competitions. Routines are one of the most important aspects of sports that you can develop to improve […]
Read MoreHow Not to Get “Iced” When a Course Hold Delays Your Race Run
Have you experienced this before in a race? You’re in the starting gate and ready to go physically and mentally with less than 30 seconds before you put your poles over the wand, hear the countdown, and kick out of the start. Then, all of a sudden, there’s a course hold. It may be due […]
Read MoreResults aren’t the Only Criterion of Success in This Sports Year of COVID
The sports community is now deep into what is certainly the strangest competitive year ever, overshadowed, of course, by the Covid-19 pandemic. The predominant emotion I have seen in my work with athletes and in conversations with many more athletes on and off the field of play is…frustration. For many athletes, it feels like a […]
Read MoreTrain Your Mind for Athletic Success Podcast: Episode #34-Developing a Mental Imagery Program
Episode #34: Developing a Mental Imagery Program of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the second of two episodes that explore the power of mental imagery on athletic performance. The key to getting the most out of your mental training, in this case, your mental imagery, is to approach it the same […]
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