Coaches and parents would be wise not to overlook an unexplained drop in an athlete’s performance. It’s easy to write this off as a one-time event or an anomaly. Instead of reading the proverbial tea leaves, instinctively parents and coaches want to trust the process and just stay the course. THIS. IS. A. MISTAKE. I […]
There are two healthy ways of looking at the athletic career of a young athlete. Either 1) you can look at it like a marathon or 2) you can look at it like a series of sprints. The marathon approach is taking the slow and steady growth curve. It’s pacing the athlete’s progress and putting […]
Last week I was deeply saddened by the news of the passing of one of the people I admired most in the field of sports performance and mental conditioning, Trevor Moawad. Moawad was arguably the #1 evangelist spreading the gospel of mental skills training and its importance in sports over the last five years. For […]