The Most Important Step Athletes Must Take to Get Better Faster

Every athlete goes to practice, but every athlete does not get better at the same rate from practice. Two athletes could have the same coaches as well as practice the same skills for the same amount of time, but one will get better faster than the other. Why is this? The easy answer is to […]

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The Purpose of Training Pain

Training pain is the pain you experience when you are training to push yourself beyond your current limitations. The purpose of this pain is to condition the body to tolerate extreme fatigue, thousands of hours of repetition, performing while hurt, injury recovery, and learning from failure, among other things. As you condition your body your […]

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Overcoming the Conflict Between the Process and Outcome Mindsets

The first mindset conflict I typically must help a client with is the process vs. the outcome mindset. After all, these mindsets not only have the biggest impact on motivation, they also cause conflicts within one’s ego which then leads to negative achievement behaviors. Outcomes are uncontrollable. Consequently, when your motivation comes from things you […]

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