Dr. Jim Taylor

How 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 [...]

How to Keep Your Physical and Mental Mojo All Season Long

By Dr. Jim Taylor| 2020-03-02T13:57:35-08:00 March 2nd, 2020|Categories: Ski Racing|Tags: exhaustion, fatigue, illness, injury, long season, mental training, race management, rest, sport psychology|0 Comments

One of the most important ideas I emphasize in my work with racers is consistency. In fact, it’s consistency that makes the great racers, like Petra Vlhova and Alexis Pinturault, so great. Day in and day out, week in and week out, month in and month out, and year in and year out, they are [...]