Inside the Tri-Mind: Psych-up and Psych-down Tools to Reach Your Prime Intensity
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 […]
Read MoreFocus on the Present During This Covid Sports Season
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, […]
Read MoreCrisis to Opportunity Podcast: Episode #36-Lights…Camera…Action!
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 […]
Read MoreWhat is Your Prime Intensity in Triathlon?
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 […]
Read MorePast, Present, and Future Focus During This Covid Ski Racing Season
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 […]
Read MoreI Have Another Ski Racing Hero
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 […]
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