I’m sure you know that to sustain high performance over time, you need to consider movement, recovery, nutrition, sleep and mindset. These are often referred to as the five pillars of performance, but that makes them sound somewhat independent of each other, like silos. And they are really not. Instead, they are intricately related, with mindset at the centre – the captain of the team
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.
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?
Have you found that you often spend more time thinking about training and competing than we do about recovery?
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.