Mindset and the 5 pillars of performance
I’m sure you know that to sustain high performance over time, you need to consider movement, recovery, nutrition, sleep and mindset.
Philip Collier
How to recover faster to run stronger and longer
Let’s rethink the power of doing nothing. If you are like me then you’re tracking your training metrics… It is difficult to see doing nothing as an important part of becoming a better runner.
Harness your hyperfocus
Creating your own superpower user guide – Do you ever wish you could get into hyperfocus whenever you want to? And then find that hyperfocus seems most elusive when you need it?
Is stress killing your next run?
Have you found that you often spend more time thinking about training and competing than we do about recovery?
How I went from competing to experiencing
I have always been highly competitive, especially in individual sports. Perhaps it is because I just love going fast, and nothing makes you feel as fast as when you come flying past your fellow competitors (the only thing that is comparable is racing downhill on my mountain bike). I was… Read More »How I went from competing to experiencing
Your mental game plan for the Argus Cycle Tour
As the time grows closer to the Argus Cycle Tour I see more and more cyclists on the road “miles in the legs” in preparation for the big day. As much as getting time in the saddle is important, consider spending some time preparing mentally for the race. Here are… Read More »Your mental game plan for the Argus Cycle Tour
Happiness – Do we have a choice?
The growth of neuroscience and genetics has seen an increasing number of articles stating that the part of the brain that does this or that, or the gene for this or that has been discovered. Happiness has not escaped these studies. Here is one such article I found in The Telegraph “Born miserable – some people genetically programmed to be negative” (http://bit.ly/fF7cja). Wow. I hope I am not that person! After reading that article you might simply think; no wonder I’m miserable, it’s in my genes (and hence I cannot do anything about it).
And that leads me to an interesting article I found just the other day where the question was asked “is happiness a choice?” (http://bit.ly/hEQW2F)…
In the Pursuit of Happiness Contentment and Mindfulness Win
Ask anyone if they want to be happy and they’ll surely say yes. The pursuit of happiness has spurned a multi-million dollar business. But the relentless pursuit of happiness is unrealistic. No one is happy all of the time and when people expect to be happy all of the time, they are likely to find happiness an illusive state of mind. As the obsession with happiness has reached great heights, it is only natural to expect an antithetical movement against the happiness imperative. Yet while I agree that happiness cannot be an end unto itself, I caution against embracing the opposite.
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Why you should Be mental about sports
You devote of hours and hours to training your body but how much to you spend training your mind? More and more, athletes and sports teams are turning to sports psychology and mental game coaching to give them the edge in training and competition. Sports psychology is a discipline within… Read More »Why you should Be mental about sports
How to perform better and have fun doing it
Whether in business or in sports, we all want to perform at our best and have fun doing it. For many of us however, optimal or peak experiences do not happen frequently enough. There are three things that impact on peak performance: our thoughts about the past, our thoughts about the future, and what we think about in the moment.