Sports/Ski Racing: Bode Miller’s Road to Redemption
I don’t know Bode Miller personally, though I know athletes and coaches who know him well. I do know alpine ski racing. I competed internationally in my youth and have worked with ski racers, ranging from juniors to Olympians, on the mental side of the sport for 25 years. And I have followed Bode’s career […]
Read MoreSports: Find Your Prime Intensity
Prime intensity is the ideal amount of physiological activity necessary for you to perform your best. It is also the level of intensity that you perceive as most positive and beneficial to your sports performances. Unfortunately, there is no one ideal level of intensity for every athlete. Prime intensity is individual; it’s different for everyone. […]
Read MoreSports/Popular Culture: Tiger Woods: The Price of Infidelity
In the last 15 years alone, there has been Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Jude Law, Eliot Spitzer, Kobe Bryant, Mark Sanford, Alex Rodriguez, David Letterman, the list goes on. Now, it?s d?j? vu all over again. Another successful man caught with his paws in the honey jar (pun intended). But not just any man. We?re […]
Read MoreSports: What Makes the Great Ones Great?
So what do Tom Brady, LeBron James, Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Usain Bolt, Annika Sorenstam, Michael Phelps, Lance Armstrong, and Lisa Leslie have that you don?t? This question has been on the minds of many people of late with the recent publication of Malclom Gladwell?s Outliers and Daniel Coyle?s The Talent Code. If you have […]
Read MoreSports/Popular Culture: Is Elizabeth Lambert a Victim?
I already wrote a post about Elizabeth Lambert, the newest? member of the Sports Hall of Shame, for her unsportspersonlike behavior during a recent college soccer game. But I had another perspective I wanted to share because of all the attention she has gotten in the media. I actually feel sorry for Ms. Lambert. Don?t […]
Read MoreSports/Popular Culture: Bravo Elizabeth Lambert…Sort Of!
Elizabeth Lambert has become an overnight sensation?but not in a good way. Thanks to the viral power of youtube, her decidedly unsportspersonlike (we can?t say unsportsmanlike any longer) behavior during a recent college soccer game has landed her in the Deplorable Behavior Hall of Fame along side such luminaries as Kermit Washington, Bill Romanowski, Mike […]
Read MoreSports: Intensity in Sports
The next three issues of Prime Sport Alert! will be devoted to intensity, which may be the most important contributor to athletic performance once the competition begins. It?s so important because all of the motivation, confidence, focus, and emotions in the world won?t help you if your body is not physiologically capable of doing what […]
Read MoreSports: Building Confidence: Part II
Negative thinking that hurts confidence can become a bad habit. Bad confidence habits are just like bad technical habits; the more you practice them, the more ingrained they become and the better you get at being negative. And that negativity is what will come out in competition. Also like a bad technical habit, negative thinking […]
Read MoreSports/Parenting: Michael Vick: He Paid. Should He Play?
Over the last several weeks, considerable attention and discussion has been directed toward whether Michael Vick, the former NFL quarterback and convicted felon (he served two years for a conviction related to dog fighting) should be allowed to return to the NFL. He has been conditionally reinstated, so his return seems inevitable. Though protests are […]
Read MoreSports: Building Confidence: Part I
Back in the November, 2008 issue of Prime Sport Alert! I wrote that the next three issues of the newsletter would be devoted to confidence. Well, I kept my promise for the January, 2009 issue, but then got sidetracked for two issues with some other material that I thought was interesting and timely. I’m now […]
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