Vlog: Find Your Motivation Every Day in Your Sport
In my third of 12 vlog segments devoted to athletes and coaches, I show you the immense impact that motivation has on your athletic success. Motivation is the foundation of everything that you do in your athletic life because without it, you wouldn’t go to the gym in the early morning, you wouldn’t put in […]
Read MoreVlog: Develop Emotional Mastery in Your Young Athletes
In this week’s vlog segment, I focus on how sport parents can help their young athletes to gain emotional mastery in their sports lives. As I’m sure you realize, emotions play an essential role in the lives of children both on and off the field. At practice and in competition, their ability to recognize and […]
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Vlog: Train Your Mind like You Train Your Body
In my second of 12 vlog segments devoted to athletes and coaches, I show you why and how you should treat mental training the same way you do your physical conditioning . I describe three aspects of your conditioning that make them effective and without those elements you wouldn’t be in the best condition you […]
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Vlog: What is Prime Sport (Prime Ski Racing)?
In my first of 12 vlog segments for athletes and coaches (parents can enjoy them too!), I describe my concept of Prime Sport (Prime Ski Racing) and how understanding it will provide you with a clear goal that you can strive for as you pursue sport (or ski racing) success. For this and future segments, […]
Read MoreInspiration for Athletic Success Must Come From Within
If you’re a committed athlete, I’m sure you watch your favorite professional or Olympic athletes compete, whether LeBron, Serena, Tom, or Simone. Or you watch videos of them training on YouTube. Or you hear an interview with them in which they talk about their efforts, challenges, and successes. Or you read their autobiography. How do […]
Read MoreA Must-Read for Every Athlete (and Their Parents) Who Has Ever Struggled
The father of a client just sent me this blog post from Siri Lindley, a former world triathlon champion. It exemplifies how complete dedication to athletic greatness can be both a essential boon to success and a cross to bear. It also provides an important juxtaposition between attempting to control and prepare for everything that […]
Read MoreMore Reasons Your Young Athlete Shouldn’t Specialize Too Early
Just read a really compelling article providing more reasons why young athletes who specialize too early, contrary to popular belief held by parents, actually decrease their chances of finding success later on in a sport. Two main reasons: sports become a grind rather than a joy and the increased incidence of serious injury. Great advice […]
Read MoreGreat Performers are Born AND Made
Skiracing.com recently published an article about a segment of RedBull TV that explores whether great performers are born or made. The 50-minute show, titled The Prodigies, focuses on Mikaela Shiffrin, the Olympic ski racing champion, and Lang Lang, considered the finest classical pianist in the world. In my view, the segment is biased toward the ‘great […]
Read MoreTaylor Inks Two New Book Deals!
I’m really excited to announce that I’ve signed two new book contracts with Rowman & Littlefield, the publisher who will be publishing my next book, Train Your Mind for Athletic Success (to be published in August, 2017). The first of the two new books is tentatively titled Prime Sport Parenting: Raising Young Athletes to be Victorious […]
Read MoreResults aren’t the Only Criterion of a Successful Sports Season
The end of a competitive season is, for every athlete, a time of reckoning in which you look back and evaluate what kind of season you had: one to be proud of or one to reflect back on with disappointment and perhaps regret. Not surprisingly, one of the primary criteria that athletes use to judge […]
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