Train Your Mind for Athletic Success Podcast: Episode #37-Breathing
Episode #37-Breathing of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast explores the power of breathing to better prepare you physically and mentally for competitive success. Breathing may be the most under-rated tool in your mental toolbox. In fact, you may have never even thought about your breathing in your athletic life at all because […]
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 […]
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Train Your Mind for Athletic Success Podcast: Episode #25-What is Intensity?
Episode #25: What is Intensity? of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the first of two episodes in which I will explore the impact of intensity on sports performance. The topic for today’s episode is: What is Intensity? What I mean by intensity is the amount of physiological activity you experience in your […]
Read MoreTrain Your Mind for Athletic Success Podcast: Episode #12-Expectations
Episode #12: Expectations of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the fifth of six in a series that examines the psychological and emotional obstacles that hold athletes back from performing their best, enjoying their sports experiences, and achieving their sports goals. This episode focuses on expectations and how they can become a weight […]
Read MoreFun is a Mental Tool for Athletic Success
I’m a big believer in creating a mental toolbox that is filled with tools you can use in practice and on game day to fix the inevitable “flat tires” you will experience as a competitive athlete. Usually when I talk about mental tools, I mean tools such as imagery, routines, breathing, and self-talk. But there’s […]
Read MoreHow to Survive (and Thrive in) Your 1st Year of FIS
The transition from U16s to U19s is an important and challenging rite of passage for every young ski racer. The year of FIS racing is also a crucible that tests racers physical, technically, tactically, and, especially, psychologically and emotionally. To continue to pursue your ski racing goals, you must “survive” and, in fact, find ways […]
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Hey Parents, Set Healthy Expectations for Your Young Athletes
November has arrived and race season is just around the corner (or already started if you’re a World Cupper). So, now is the time when parents start to communicate (usually unconsciously) expectations for their young racers and, in turn, when those young racers can start to feel the weight of expectations that are placed on […]
Read MoreTrain Your Mind for Athletic Success Podcast: Episode #3-Process Attitude
The third episode of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast focuses on the costs of having an outcome attitude and the benefits of a process attitude. An outcome attitude involves a preoccupation with results, competitive success and failure, rankings, and comparing yourself to others. Contrary to what most athletes, coaches, and parents think, an […]
Read MoreMental Tips for Performing Your Best in Your Championship Season
Regardless of what sport you participate in, you have a championship season within your competitive season in which the stakes rise and how you perform counts the most. Yet, this is also the time of year when many athletes and teams aren’t performing at all well because of fatigue after a long regular season and […]
Read MoreWhat Ski Racers Can Learn from George Costanza
For you to become the best ski racer you can be, you have to be darned serious about your ski racing. You must be motivated, intense, focused, and give your best effort every time you click into your skis. You have to put in the time in the gym, watch a lot of video, keep […]
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