Mental Toughness
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Simple Technique to Get Your Athletes Relaxed
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Simple Technique To Get Your Athletes Relaxed The question surfaces often by coaches and parents: “How can I help some of my athletes relax before big (games, meets, races, etc.)” Tom Petty said it best, “the waiting is the hardest part.” It’s the amount of time to actually “think” before a competition that causes…
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Eyes on The Path
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A young kung fu student travels to meet a renowned sensei… The student tells the master that he wants to train under him to become a powerful samurai and asked “how long it would take”? online payday loans california The master tells him it will take 10 years of training. Unsatisfied, the student says that…
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The “Safe” Athlete
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An A.D. that I met with recently discussed how one of their best basketball players always played safe. On one hand, the point guard made few mistakes and played consistent. However, the point guard also held back and never “took over a game.” They lacked mental toughness… At a swim meet yesterday, I spoke with…
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Athletes Who Play Safe In Sports |
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An A.D. that I met with recently discussed how one of their best basketball players always played safe. She was the safe athlete. Athletes who play safe are the new normal On one hand, the point guard made few mistakes and played consistent. However, the point guard also held back and never “took over a…
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End of the Hinge Dynasty…
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In the 2013 AFC championship game against the Baltimore Ravens, the New England Patriots held a halftime lead of 13-7. Nothing extraordinary, except that with Bill Belichick as head coach and Tom Brady as Quarterback, the Patriots were 67-0 at home. After the game they became 67-1. This defeat unofficially marked the end of the Hinge…
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The fear of…
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You may know the feeling… Cold water and lack of oxygen jolts you: you realize that you jumped in way over your head. Limbs are flailing, lungs are gasping, and your mind can’t focus on anything but the struggle between fighting to breathe, and giving up completely…Maybe it’s just your morning shower or perhaps as…
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Use This Top Gun Technique for Goals…
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Use This Top-Gun Technique For Goals… In the movie Top Gun, Tom Skerritt, (VIPER) tells the fighter pilots, “You are the best of the best, the elite,” and “we’ll make you even better.” The Top Gun school made them better fighter pilots, by flying, not by trying to make them fisherman or painters. Stay with…
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The ONE word to say to a referee…
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The One Word to Say to a Referee? When I worked with HOF baseball coach, Tommy Pharr. He would use this one word all of the time….It later dawned on me, It really worked! This is the one word to say to a referee. Surprisingly, it is the same word to say to a police…
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Pain of Discipline OR Pain of Regret
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Pain of Discipline OR Pain of Regret I encountered a painful reminder on the 5k race. I ran and pushed my daughter in the stroller. My mileage and tempo was no longer where it needs to be to set PR’s, but I figured I could still win at least the stroller division! Here’s where I…
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What Golden Tee can teach us about Entrepreneurship
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I met with a successful entrepreneur and coach, Tony Scelzo, over a game of Golden Tee. You know, the arcade game that is nothing like real golf…until you take a double bogey. removed Of course we had something on the line, so it was a competitive 18-hole skins game. Tony Scelzo’s story and journey is…