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A routine is not necessarily something that begins right before practice, competition or a workout. It’s something that you want to get in the habit of thinking about the day or night before. A [...]

Motivation can be defined as the direction and intensity of one’s efforts. Direction refers to why a person is involved in certain situations and why a person avoids other situations. Intensity [...]

I am now working with a lot of Olympic and professional athletes and I am very passionate about wanting to help support their performance endeavors. Although I am enamored by athletes of [...]

Relaxation is important for athletes in their sport and in everyday life to help create a calm feeling and sense of control.  Its ‘time-out’ from worry.  Athletes can use specific relaxation [...]

Neurotic used to be a psychological diagnosis however  now researchers for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) have taken it out and have decided that it is a common term for more [...]

Practice is meant for practicing physical & mental skills: learning new skills, developing other skills, making mistakes, improving fitness, etc. If you are practicing correctly then you will [...]

This is the last correspondence I had with this athlete. If you’ve been reading the progression over the past 8 or so weeks you’ve seen the openness, awareness and progress this elite [...]

I’ve developed a new tactic for helping my athletes become more aware of cognitive and somatic ‘feelings’. It is called the ‘timeout’. What is it The timeout is a [...]

Imagery Sensory Checklist This is an exercise designed to help you begin to integrate your senses into your imagery. As you create each of the following images in your mind, rate your ability to [...]

How many times have you worked collaboratively with a client to put a training plan together and they come back the following week (numerous weeks) and say they haven’t done anything? This is not [...]