Counterpoint: Taking a Risk is NOT Risky Behavior

There is a big difference between taking a spontaneous risk and taking a calculated risk. Taking a spontaneous risk is risky behavior. However, taking a calculated risk is a skill you must learn to execute if you want to go from good to great at anything. Moreover, this difference in types of risks is what […]

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Once You Realize that Fatigue is as Much Mental as it is Physical Do This

Fatigue is the great equalizer in sports. The biggest, strongest, and fastest athletes are only a shell of themselves once fatigue causes exhaustion. Moreover, an athlete could learn how to master the process of conditioning in practice and still find themselves facing extreme fatigue in a competition. The reason for this is because fatigue is […]

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NBA Playoffs Teaches Athletes Lesson on Elevating from Good to Great

I teach my clients that playing sports is 100% mental. This doesn’t mean physical skills are not important. This just means that an athlete’s physical skills are only as good as their mental skills. So, if you take away any given mental skill from an athlete this will decrease that athlete’s ability to execute physical […]

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