don’t get caught up in the  fan mentality

Stop approaching your sport as a spectator! Each person involved has their own role: players play, coaches coach, administrators administrate, referees ref, parents parent, etc.​Know your role – You are a player, an athlete, a participant. This means you must think like a participant, not as a coach, not as an administrator, and certainly not…

Read more

10 Rules for Track and Field Season

10 Rules for Track Season   Never be outworked. Always put in 110% of your effort and you won’t be outworked.  Steve Prefontaine said, “I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.” Be willing to give…

Read more

5 characteristics of a successful mindset

  1. Passion– You don’t want to run track or do a field event just for the sake of running, jumping, or throwing, or because your friends do it, or because you just want to win. You want to compete because you love it, and you’re passionate about it. If you truly love track and…

Read more

6 track and field mindset pillars

​1. Compete in Track and Field because YOU want to. Your happiness and well-being is more important than success. If running track or competing in a field event isn’t in your heart, then try something else. Don’t do it for someone else, do what YOU love for YOU. 2. Focus on the process not the outcome. If…

Read more

7 Cardinal Sins of Track and Field

7 Cardinal Sins of Track and Field Indifference/Apathy – There’s no room for these feelings if you want to develop your skills and improve your performance. Always put in 110%.  Even if God has blessed you with athletic talent – the ability to run far, fast, throw or jump, work as if you had none…

Read more

7 ways track & field athletes kill performance

1. Avoid becoming too much of a fan, instead of an athlete. If you’re about to play a team in your league, don’t look up their stats or find them in the newspaper. At meets, don’t watch the highest ranked teams competing against each other too much either. All of those things will make you…

Read more