Reviewing the Year: Lessons Learned and Opportunities for Growth for Endurance Athletes
As you look back on this year, take pride in your perseverance, dedication, and growth. Endurance sports are a marathon, not a sprint, and every year is an opportunity to learn, improve, and grow as an athlete and as a person.
Celebrate your successes, acknowledge your challenges, and approach the next year with renewed focus and purpose. No matter where you are on your journey, remember that each stride, pedal, or stroke is progress. Keep moving forward!
Success beyond the finish line
Success in endurance sports is about more than just achieving specific goals. It's about the journey, the growth, and the lessons learned along the way. By focusing on the purpose behind our goals and celebrating our process successes, we can find fulfillment and satisfaction in our athletic endeavors, regardless of the outcome.
From Fear to Fierce: Mental Toughness for Athletes
Fear. It's a formidable opponent, lurking in the shadows of every athlete's mind. Whether it's the swimmer battling doubt at the starting line, or the cyclist gripping the handlebars on a treacherous descent, fear can be a paralyzing force. Overcoming fear is about unlocking our full potential and embracing the challenges that life and sports throw our way.
Beat Decision Fatigue: The Secret Weapon for Peak Performance
Mental fatigue, the exhaustion from constant choices, can zap your energy, focus and your ability to make fast decisions in challenging situations. It can have a negative influence in our daily life, but can have an especially negative influence on race day. For female endurance athletes, pre-race planning and preparation are the ultimate weapon against this silent gremlin.
Celebrating Pride in Endurance Sports: Creating a Welcoming Community for All Athletes
June is Pride month. Pride is a time for the LGBTQIA+ community to celebrate our rich history, diversity, and ongoing fight for equality. Yet, it is also a time to reflect on the challenges we continue to face. Pride is also a chance for allies within the endurance sports community to show their support and advocate for a more inclusive environment.
Stop “shoulding” all over yourself
“Should I…..” robs us of knowing what we actually want, and making a decision based on our wants and needs. Over their lifetime women were not encouraged to recognize their own needs or to trust their own judgment. Let’s stop “shoulding” on ourselves. Instead let’s reclaim our power to recognize what we want and need.
A Pep Talk on Perspective: Change Your View, Change Your Experience
Self doubt and actually all of our self beliefs are fueled by our perspective on how we see the situation. Sometimes a shift in perspective is all we need to silence that self doubt. Let’s go over a few options to help shift our perspective.
Blue Bike: The Secret for Calming Pre-race Nerves
Can't Focus at the Starting Line? This Trick Might Change Your Race Day
Crush your 2024 athletic goals: The 5 step plan every female athlete needs!
Embark on a transformative journey with our 5-step guide tailored for female endurance athletes. Crush your fitness goals in 2024 with SMART planning, attainable milestones, and a performance-driven approach. Elevate your strength, overcome obstacles, and achieve lasting success. Ready to dominate your athletic endeavors? Schedule a free consultation and let us help you CRUSH your goals!
Exploring Success: It’s More Than Just Meeting Goals
success is setting a challenging goal, taking steps to achieve that goal, and adjusting when adversity comes, while staying true to your values and leaning into your integrity.
Review: The key for a successful next year
To set your goals for next year, start by reviewing your successes and struggles from this year. Good planning and preparing often comes from learning from reviewing.
DNF: The 3 most disliked and misunderstood letters in endurance sports
DNF. Did not finish. Is it harsh and final or is it an opportunity to learn and grow. Learn the mindset and steps here to decided when to stop or when to keep going.
3P2R: The secret for success in swimming, biking, running & triathlon
Plan, prepare, perform, recover, review. The secret to multisport success
Creating Community
Last week I attended the Girls Gone Graveling Festival in Bentonville, Arkansas. I witnessed and was part of connection and community which is the antidote to loneliness and isolation. On the first night, Kristi Mohn facilitated a panel of Brooke Goudy, Marely Blonsky, Abi Robins. They are leading the way for inclusion and belonging in the gravel space. I forget if it was Brooke or Marley, but one said to pull out a chair for others. Let’s create space, let’s invite people to our table. What I heard in that message was, be aware of the “others” in the room, be aware of what privilege you have in that moment and invite the other in. It is through those invitations that we create community and connection.
Why mental coaching
You spend a great deal of time and money training and racing. You hope to show up on race day in peak form. Why not feel as strong mentally as you feel physically.