Episode #31: Emotions-Part II of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the second of three episodes that explore the powerful influence of emotions on sports performance. One of the great obstacles you will experience as an athlete, particularly in your training efforts, can be summarized as what I call the negative emotional […]

Episode #30: Emotions-Part I of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the first of three episodes that explore the powerful influence of emotions on sports performance. Emotions play a vital, yet often underappreciated, role in athletic performance. In fact, emotions aren’t just important in sports, but, even more so, in our lives […]

Episode #29: What is Mindset? of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast explores the impact of mindset on sports performance. “Mindset,” is an essential and little addressed contributor to athletic success and a mental area that has only come to light in my work with elite athletes during the past few years. This […]

Episode #28: Focus Tools of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the second of two episodes in which I explore the impact of focus on sports performance. This podcast will introduce you to a variety of focus tools that you can add to your mental toolbox that will help you to stay focused […]

Episode #27: What is Focus? of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the first of two episodes in which I explore the impact of focus on sports performance. Focus is the most misunderstood mental factor among athletes. Most athletes think of focus as concentrating on one thing for a long time. Simply […]

Episode #26: Psych-up and Psych-down Tools of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the second of two episodes in which I will explore the impact of intensity on sports performance. Your awareness of your level of intensity and your ability to adjust your intensity to its ideal level is essential for performing your […]

Episode #25: What is Intensity? of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the first of two episodes in which I will explore the impact of intensity on sports performance. The topic for today’s episode is: What is Intensity? What I mean by intensity is the amount of physiological activity you experience in your […]

Episode #24: 7 Tools for Building Confidence of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the first of two episodes that examines the impact of confidence on sports performance. This episode introduces you to what confidence is in the context of sports, how it affects athletes, why athletes lose confidence, symptoms of low confidence, […]

Episode #23: What is Confidence? of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the first of two episodes that examines the impact of confidence on sports performance. This episode introduces you to what confidence is in the context of sports, how it affects athletes, why athletes lose confidence, symptoms of low confidence, and […]

Episode #22: Goal Setting of my Train Your Mind for Athletic Success podcast is the third of three episodes that examines the impact of motivation on your training efforts and your competitive success. This episode introduces you to the power of goal setting as a tool for increasing and maintaining your motivation in all aspects of […]