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Traditional flow is the ability to freely move through a performance with little to no thought - fully immersed, focused, and enjoying their performance.

Some of us are born with a genetic level of fear – nature, but much of our fear also develops through our experiences – nurture. Once fear sets in, it holds on tight. Regardless, you can learn to [...]

Motivation can be tough sometimes, but so can luck. When you use ‘luck’ as your barometer, then winning and losing doesn’t have anything to do with how much training you’ve done or how you’ve [...]

Should kids play multiple sport or specialize in one sport? Kids need a well-rounded environment to develop into well-rounded people. There is no way for kids to get everything they need from one [...]

Can butterflies really turn into full blown anxiety and create worry, doubt, and fear? Anxiety appears cognitively through worry and fear. It also appears somatically through things like [...]

Two things happened today and it was sad but opportune – I was working on a coach’s presentation on character development and then I was having a conversation with a friend who was assaulted by [...]

Undertraining and overtraining can lead to the opposite of what an athlete is striving for and can hinder performance. In Matt Kuzdub’ s (2017) excellent blog, Overtraining and undertraining in [...]

Research shows that using exercise punishment to motivate young athletes can impact them negatively, short and long term. The topic of punitive coaching is hot right now.

A few weeks ago, I read an article about the increase of women entrepreneurs sexually harassed in Silicon Valley. As I started to dig more into this, I found out that 60% of these women report [...]

Yips have been around for years. Some of the best athletes struggle to overcome yips. They are common in golf and in baseball mainly with pitchers. Now, they seem to be coming up more frequently [...]