I Practice What I Preach: Mental Marginal Gains
In my last segment of my “I Practice What I Preach” series, I explained that you don’t always want to listen to your body when you’re training and racing. The reality is that, if you did, you would slow down or stop when you started to experience high perceived effort or exertion pain. Instead, you want […]
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I Practice What I Preach: When Not to Listen to Your Body
As I indicated in my last segment of “I Practice What I Preach,” you definitely want to listen to your body when it’s sending messages of injury to you. Moreover, you want to listen when your body is whispering, so you don’t have to listen to it when it’s screaming at you (then it’s too […]
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Listen to Your Body Follow-up: Not What I Had in Mind! ;->
I saw this cartoon in the New Yorker and thought it was karmic timing with my last post. The cartoon gave me a good chuckle because there are those times that I feel the same way!
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I Practice What I Preach: Listen to Your Body
The first article in my “I Practice What I Preach” Series will explore the importance of listening to our bodies to maintain our physical and mental health, maximize our training efforts, and race as fast as we can. One of the most revered axioms in endurance sports is: “Listen to your body.” The idea being […]
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Effortless Swimming Podcast: Mind Hacks for Mental Margin Gains
I recently made another appearance on the Effortless Swimming podcast (my 4th!) with Brenton Ford. If you’re not familiar with Effortless Swimming, it’s one of the top swimming-focus on YouTube. I’ve learned a ton about swimming from watching Brenton’s informative videos. In this segment, I talk about, as the title indicates, Mind Hacks for Mental […]
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New Taylor Blog Series: I Practice What I Preach
I have received an enthusiastic response from followers of my blog and social media to my recent post about the successful start of my 2023 triathlon season. Based on the positive reaction, and requests from several followers, I’ve decided to launch a new series titled, “I Practice What I Preach” in which I will share […]
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Psychology of Sports Technology-Part III: Trieye Sunglasses with Built-in Rearview Mirror
In the last installment of my Psychology of Sports Technology, I focused on FORM smart swim goggles that has a heads-up display in one of the lenses that provides real-time tracking of essential data including time, distance, and pace, as well as useful post-swim data such as DPS, stroke rate, and SWOLF. In this week’s […]
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Psychology of Sports Technology-Part II: FORM Smart Swim Goggles
In the last installment of my Psychology of Sports Technology, I focused on Firefly Recovery which has been scientifically proven to facilitate recovery from intense efforts in training and competition (as well as mitigating the effects of jetlag). In today’s installment, I introduce you to FORM smart swim goggles, an absolute game changer in my […]
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Working Triathlete Podcast: Mental Margin Gains
I was recently interviewed by WorkingTriathlete.com, one of the leading triathlon coaching programs in the U.S., to discuss my newly developed concept of “mental marginal gain.” Over the course of about one hour, my hosts, Conrad Goeringer and Derek Stone, and I talk about how the mind can be leveraged more effectively to produce meaningful […]
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Psychology of Sports Technology-Part I: Firefly Recovery
I have a huge passion for technology in my athletic life. I have a smartwatch (COROS), heart-rate monitor (Polar Verity Sense), power meter (Quarq), bicycle head unit (Garmin), running pod (COROS), smart swim goggles (FORM), training platform (TrainingPeaks), virtual cycling platform (Zwift), and more. Admittedly, I haven’t gotten blood lactate, glucose, or sweat monitoring devices, […]
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