Dr. Jim Taylor

Cycling: Cycling Confidence

Confidence is the single most important mental factor in cycling. Confidence is also a mental area that is ripe for change and I will not only be offering you insights into how confidence impacts your cycling performance, but, in my next several installments, I will also offer you many practical tools for developing confidence in [...]

Cycling: Motivation to Achieve Your Cycling Goals

By Dr. Jim Taylor| 2014-07-01T15:54:56-07:00 September 17th, 2012|Categories: Cycling|Tags: bicycle racing, brad wiggins, competition, lance armstrong, racing, riding, tour d'france|0 Comments

Motivation lies at the base of the Prime Cycling pyramid. Without your desire and determination to improve your cycling performances and achieve your riding goals, all of the other mental factors, confidence, intensity, focus, and emotions, are meaningless. To become the best cyclist you can be, you must be motivated to do the work necessary [...]