Focus may be the most misunderstood mental “muscle” in the sports world and this misunderstanding can be a real challenge for triathletes. Most triathletes think of focus as concentrating on one thing for a long time. In fact, many years ago, a former world champion told me that she improved her focus by staring at [...]
Episode #32: Emotional Mastery of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the third of three episodes that explore the powerful influence of emotions on sports performance. Sports can evoke a wide range of emotions, from inspiration, pride, exhilaration, and satisfaction, to fear, frustration, anger, and panic, often in a very short time [...]
In my second article in this three-part series in which I explore how intensity influences your triathlon efforts, I introduced you to how you can identify your “prime” (i.e., ideal) intensity. The value of knowing your prime intensity is that, before a race, you can monitor your intensity and evaluate whether your intensity, as the [...]
The Covid-19 crisis has certainly presented me with new challenges in my work with athletes, whether juniors or professionals. It’s as if the pandemic has taken all of the normal challenges that athletes face and turned their volume up several notches. Whether motivation, confidence, fear of failure, expectations, or anxiety, whatever athletes are thinking, feeling, [...]
Episode #36: Lights...Camera...Action! of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast is the last of four in which I will wrap up my podcast by exploring how to take everything you’ve learned in this podcast and prepare you to take action that will help you positively confront and, hopefully, overcome the crisis you are faced with. Everything I’ve discussed in [...]
In the first article in my three-part series exploring the impact of intensity on triathlon training and racing, I introduced you to what intensity is, how it affects you, how you can tell when you are either under- or over-intense. This article will focus on how you can identify your ideal intensity for triathlon and [...]
The Covid-19 crisis has certainly presented me with new challenges in my work with ski racers, whether U14s or World Cuppers. It’s as if the pandemic has taken all of the normal challenges that racers face and turned their volume up several notches. Whether motivation, confidence, fear of failure, expectations, or anxiety, whatever athletes are [...]
Back in December, I wrote an article titled, Parker Biele is My Hero, in which I expressed my admiration for this young ski racer who, against significant physical odds and bucking our somewhat inflexible U.S. ski racing culture, has continued to progress and find success at the ripe old age of 21 (written ironically). I [...]
Episode #35: Madness to Method of my Crisis to Opportunity podcast is the third of four in which I will wrap up my podcast by exploring how to take everything you’ve learned in this podcast and prepare you to take action that will help you positively confront and, hopefully, overcome the crisis you are faced with. Quite simply, [...]
I'm thrilled and deeply gratified that my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast was ranked #19 in Feedspot's Top 40 Sports and Athletic Performance podcasts and its first mental training podcast. The rankings were based on the following criteria: Podcast content qualityEpisode consistencyThe average number of shares on social sites for the Podcast episodesThe [...]
