Pain: A Natural Occurrence
My goal is to help you find an alternate, sustainable way to process and move through chronic pain. So here are a few strategies to try on, recognizing that coping with pain is a dynamic process that can vary from day to day or moment to moment.
Breathing for Better Recovery, Better Performance
Your breath and energy go hand-in-hand. When you consciously change your breath, your energy and emotions shift and it’s this synergistic relationship that offers a pathway to change how you feel, restore your energy, and train your mind for greatness. Here’s a 2:1 breathing exercise to help you train.
3 Strategies for Creating Performance Goals That Stick
Do you feel frustrated and even annoyed when it comes to setting goals and performance benchmarks? Do you feel like you’re setting yourself up for inevitable failure? I’ve got three strategies to help you create performance goals that actually stick this year.
How Plant-Based Protein Can Increase Your Performance
I grew up as a competitive athlete and was told I needed to eat meat to get stronger and have the energy needed to excel as an athlete. I know now how flawed that theory is. Here’s how you can get plant-protein and still thrive as a competitive athlete.
The Upside of Pandemic Stress and How to Embrace It
I write about stress quite a bit. Why chronic stress is horrible for you, tangible ways to manage your stress, mindfulness hacks to reduce anxiety, etc., etc., you get the idea…
A 3-Minute Mindfulness Exercise to Develop Focus
It’s a Thursday morning and there’s much remaining on my weekly to-do list, including a workout and training session.
10 Ideas for Better Sleep
Healthy sleep patterns are essential if you want to boost your performance as an athlete, increase energy, and generally, live a healthier life. Yet good sleep can be elusive and hard to consistently come by given the daily stressors of life…
Meditation to Reduce Stress
The mind: it strives to achieve and perform and it craves peace and quiet. We are constantly being pulled in opposing directions, we have milestones to accomplish and daily tasks to check while deep down we may be craving a pause to catch our breath….