Find the motivation to hit the gym this summer
The choice is yours. Do you want to pay now or pay later?
The choice is yours. Do you want to pay now or pay later?
The conclusion of the ski season can be a time of excitement, relief, and suffering for parents.
Expand you perception of the quality of a training day to become a more adaptable ski racer.
Particularly for a sport such as ski racing, risk is essential for success.
Six ways ski racing makes absolutely no sense, but why it's still worth pursuing.
The real fear of failure is about the fear of experiencing painful emotions.
To achieve total success, ski racers must be willing to accept total failure.
Failure teaches racers humility and appreciation for the opportunities that they’re given.
Too much praise of any sort can be unhealthy.
What you do this fall will have a big impact on how you ski this winter.
Facts and informed opinion may carry weight intellectually, but anecdotal observations weigh far more emotionally.
Watching video can keep you mentally sharp and allow you to develop your ski racing skills when you’re not on snow.
One of the biggest lessons I've learned is that training really does matter.
Most people think of frustration as a bad emotion, but it is actually more complex than that.
Summer is a great time to develop yourself mentally.
Here's a swift kick in the pants for when you’re just not feeling your conditioning mojo.
A run of slalom and a set of squats or hang cleans are physical performances that share many attributes.
Take an essential, yet often neglected, piece of the ski racing success puzzle and make it a priority this summer.
Research shows that imagery, when combined with actual training, improves performance more than training alone.
If you are judging your season only on your point profile, you are making a big mistake.
Just like sleep, you want to create an external and internal environment that will allow fast skiing to emerge naturally.
Ski team activities give our family a sense of belonging and connectedness that can’t be readily reproduced anywhere else in our lives.
The more you can make training like a race, the more you will ingrain in your body and mind the skills and habits to ski fast in a race.
When I ask most racers and coaches how they define success, it is usually in terms of results – placing, points, rankings, or qualifying quotas.