Sports Motivation – Pump-Up Video
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Take Your Mountain Bike Skills To The Next Level
From the first part in this series, you learned the first steps to improve your mountain bike skills: When the terrain gets challenging and you need to improve your XC mountain bike handling, keep a light touch on your handlebars, get off your MTB saddle and stand on your pedals to lower your center of gravity.
To add another layer to your mountain bike skills and improve your MTB handling, consider these XC mountain bike tips to add to your MTB skills toolbox. Read the rest of this entry
Every day of your life, you are either thinking in ways to help you succeed and reach your goals or thinking in ways that limit your success, causing you to move away from goal achievement.
I am certain you have a practice routine you do on most days to build competence in your skills and thus gain confidence – most great athletes do have specific routines they follow in practice to get better.
Some athletes follow a specific routine to help them prepare for a match or game. They eat the same pregame meal, arrive at the event 1 hour prior to competition, and engage in a precise warm up they have developed through trial and error.
Other athletes prefer to jump out of the team bus or car and compete right away. One of my recent golf students, for example, has no pregame routine and prefers to jump out of the car and onto the first tee.
Sports Motivation – Visualization
Can sports mental training or visualization help you trust in your ability during competition?
One Olympian thinks so.
To perform your best, you must have trust instead of over-think your performance…
I certainly learn a lot from Olympic athletes when I pick their brains. That’s why I do several interviews a year with top athletes and coaches.
Is your XC mountain bike potential held back by fear? If you can’t breakthrough your MTB performance barriers and are spinning your wheels, it’s a good bet that you are limited by a wall of worry – your own fears.
What is fear? Fear comes in many forms – fear of failure, fear of success, fear of embarrassment, and so on. Many of my students hit a wall of worry caused by these fears and many others.
From my experience, many athletes spend too much energy worrying about things they cannot control on the mountain bike course, athletic field, or court. They waste energy on irrelevant thoughts. Read the rest of this entry
Do you make comparisons to other mountain bikers that might be bigger, stronger, or more talented than you? Do you worry when your opponents are faster than you? Read the rest of this entry
Many athletes who are perfectionistic with their approach to sports think they have a great attitude about sports – until we talk about how perfectionism can hold them back from reaching their potential. Read the rest of this entry
The number one reason mountain bike athletes, coaches, and parents contact me is when their athletes can’t take their training to mountain bike races.
Do you perform like a champion when you train, but choke up in competition? Does your performance feel tight, controlled, or lack freedom when you compete? Does your legs feel weak early on in the race? Read the rest of this entry