It’s a fact that elite athletes are a product of both nurture and nature. However, science so far cannot tell us which is more important. Intuitively, we assume sports that require more skill and technique depend more on nurture. While sports that depend more on size and speed depend more on nature. Yet, there are […]
When an athlete is running laps or sprints to increase their endurance, it’s easy to see the physical effort. However, the physical effort is not what conditions an athlete. 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 […]
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 […]