Mental skill training
6 Tips to Build Endurance for Your Best Season of Masters Cyclocross Racing
6 Tips to Build Endurance for Your Best Season of Masters Cyclocross Racing Are you a masters cyclocross racer looking to dominate your next season? Cyclocross endurance for over 50 riders is key in this physically demanding sport, and building it up takes time and effort. Here are six tips that will help you boost…
Read MoreMastering Long Distance Gravel Races: Dialing in the Essential 4 Factors
Mastering Long Distance Gravel Races: Dialing in the Essential 4 Factors Are you a gravel rider who craves adventure and loves to push your limits? By incorporating scientific principles into your training, nutrition, mental toughness, and equipment choices, you can optimize your performance and leave the competition in the dust – pun fully intended. We’ve…
Read MoreBreaking Through Barriers: How a Growth Mindset Can Help You Overcome Obstacles to Change
Breaking Through Barriers: How a Growth Mindset Can Help You Overcome Obstacles to Change Overcoming the obstacles to change is key to improving our lives. Katy Milkman, in her award-winning book How to Change, describes seven main reasons we don’t make the changes we want – or need. These include getting started, impulsivity, procrastination, forgetfulness,…
Read MoreFocus on unique process goals rather than results goals to find more success in training
Focus on Unique Process Goals Rather Than Results Goals to Find More Success in Training It’s a constant challenge to focus on the process of training specifically for an event and not develop expectations about results. Whether we are training for a cycling or running event, we start to feel a certain way about how…
Read More2 Effective Mental Skill Training Tools That Can Lead to More Joy For Endurance Athletes
2 Mental Skill Training Tools That Can Lead to More Joy For Endurance Sport Athletes One of my coaching athletes has been training for a big challenge, and as the event nears, we’ve been focusing a lot on her mental skill training, especially finding joy in the process of training. What I mean by that…
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