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3 Proven Ways to Perform under pressure
There are times when we all have to perform under pressure, the threat of choking, of losing control, or of failing miserably can be a powerful force poised to ruin your life, or at least your day. Don’t let it!
Read MoreOlympic Sports Psychologist Shane Murphy
I sat down with my former Sports Psychologist Shane Murphy – he was the first director of sports psychology for the U.S Olympic Training Center and helped me greatly improve my performance.
Read MoreAn adventurer’s look at the Leadville 100 mtb race
What a great mountain bike adventure. @OutsideMagazine picked up anohter one of our productions about the Leadville 100 mountain bike race. This video is a great adventure story about one man’s loss of more than 35 pounds finiding the adventurer within!
Read MoreThe one trait All Star-athletes, top CEOs and Navy SEALs share
I could feel the hand reach inside my stomach and start fingering a piano concerto, digits going up and down a mile a minute. I sat at the starting line of the US Olympic trials in the single scull (one man rowing) and recognized that familiar feeling. I had long ago learned to turn the…
Read MoreFour steps to getting great in less than 10,000 hours
Malcolm Gladwell popularized the 10,000 hour rule, and others claim natural ability and genetics trumps training. The truth is both are wrong according to the latest research. K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool have researched masters in many fields from Chess to Athletics and they found it’s got nothing to do with talent. Watch the video then…
Read MoreMental Training Techniques from US Olympic Training Center
Breakthrough to your best performance ever, by training your mind. Here are the secrets from the Olympic training center that can get you there!
Read MoreFive steps to become as fit as an Olympian
The sweat was burning my eyes and I couldn’t wipe away the sting. I pushed the back of my hand harder into my eye to try and make it stop. I couldn’t see my hand, I couldn’t see anything but bright flashes of white. My mind left the agony of my eyes to focus…
Read Moreprepare yourself to ride anything with these 6 training tips – Bicycling Magazine
When ultra-endurance athlete Rebecca Rusch and professional adventurer Patrick Sweeney decided to ride up Mount Kilimanjaro to benefit World Bicycle Relief this winter, both knew that training was going to be a challenge. For Rusch, who has lots of professional race obligations, the preparation was compressed into just eight weeks. Sweeney had more time,…
Read MorePlyometric leg workout to crush your next mountain bike race
Here’s some killer insight from my Olympic training days, using plyometrics to be powerful during your biking competition. Plyos are great for road cycling or mountain biking, especially in short burst and to raise your average wattage. What ever biking you do; please let me know how these work for you and please share with…
Read MoreThe best workouts on the go!
“Pain in the ass comes” in two types – good and bad. Bad is traveling through stuffy airports, hot, tired and sweaty; and good is the day after super-setting jump squats with lunges and setting a new PB. If you globetrot like I do (more than 200,000 miles per year) then one of your biggest challenges is…
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