Yes, that question was abrasive — and a little bit click-baity — but it’s an important question to ask. If you’re going to spend some of your precious, limited time…
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Last year, right before my back injury derailed me (and introduced me to Intelligent Cross Training) this was about where my motivation for cross training was: In other words: And…
I’ve been having a lot of conversations with other skaters recently — both people that don’t know me, other than through the book of faces/emails/website, and those that I currently…
People at the very top don’t just work harder, or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder. MALCOLM GLADWELL; Outliers In 1993, I was 11 years…
I’ve been feeling a little grouchy/grumpy/anti-social/etc./etc. this week. It’s not a particularly fun state to be in, for me or anyone else, because everything starts getting tarred with a disillusionment brush. These…
A couple of weeks ago I was reading a book written by sports psychologist Jim Loehr (and non-sports psychologist Tony Schwartz) called The Power of Full Engagement. This book is…
Going into bouts cold sucks. I’ve long held fast to the assertion that I play much better in the second half. (And even better still in the second bout!) All…
(AKA Regaining Your Zazzle Some More) You’ve come back from your injury. You’ve anticipated the struggle. You’ve taken small bites. You’ve asked for advice from others. And you’ve started to…
I’m sorry. (See? I told you.) Why am I apologizing you may ask? My “Best of Articles” list that went up on February 14th contained a very specific article entitled…
A couple of weeks ago, I stepped out of my comfort zone and wrote a blog post about why I felt I was cross training so hard at the beginning of…