5 09, 2022

Effortless Swimming PODCAST: Mental Strategies To Swim Strong From Start to Finish

By | September 5th, 2022|Categories: Triathlon|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

I recently was interviewed for the second time for the Effortless Swimming podcast with Brenton Ford. In this podcast, I discuss mental strategies that swimmers and triathletes can use to have a strong swim start to finish, whether in an open-water swim, swim meet, or in the first leg of a triathlon. To watch or [...]

6 07, 2021

Inside the Tri-Mind: Routines are the Foundation of Consistent Triathlon Performance (Part I)

By | July 6th, 2021|Categories: Triathlon|Tags: , , , , , |1 Comment

Routines are one of the most important aspects of triathlon that you can develop to improve your conditioning, training, and race performances. Routines benefit all of your efforts in several ways: Routines ensure total preparation in your efforts. They enable you to be completely physically, technically, tactically, and mentally ready to perform your best. Routines [...]

3 12, 2013

Ski Racers, Get Up to Speed for This Season: A Review

By | December 3rd, 2013|Categories: Ski Racing|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Hopefully, you’ve spent the summer getting ready for this winter of racing. If so, you should be stronger, better technically, and more mentally prepared than ever before. You're now entering the final stage of preparations for the upcoming race season with a final period of conditioning followed by getting back on snow and tuning up [...]

14 01, 2013

Cycling: Five Keys to Cycling Confidence

By | January 14th, 2013|Categories: Cycling|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Confidence is a deep, lasting, and resilient belief in your ability to ride your best and achieve your cycling goals. Confidence keeps you positive, motivated, intense, focused, and emotionally in control when you need it most, whether on a long and grueling climb or when you’re trying to reel in a breakaway with only a [...]

16 11, 2012

Cycling: Cycling Confidence

By | November 16th, 2012|Categories: Cycling|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Confidence is the single most important mental factor in cycling. Confidence is also a mental area that is ripe for change and I will not only be offering you insights into how confidence impacts your cycling performance, but, in my next several installments, I will also offer you many practical tools for developing confidence in [...]

17 09, 2012

Cycling: Motivation to Achieve Your Cycling Goals

By | September 17th, 2012|Categories: Cycling|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Motivation lies at the base of the Prime Cycling pyramid. Without your desire and determination to improve your cycling performances and achieve your riding goals, all of the other mental factors, confidence, intensity, focus, and emotions, are meaningless. To become the best cyclist you can be, you must be motivated to do the work necessary [...]