Golden Coachman has run 800m in 1:46, earned NCAA All-America honors, All-SEC honors, Olympic Trials qualifications, and advanced degrees all while serving in the United States Army (13 years and counting!).
Golden Coachman has run 800m in 1:46, earned NCAA All-America honors, All-SEC honors, Olympic Trials qualifications, and advanced degrees all while serving in the United States Army (13 years and counting!).
NCAA All-American and ACC Champion Amina Smith **will** represent the United States in the 2016 Olympic Games. Amina shares with us the importance of seeing what it is you want - and communicating that vision even when it's difficult.
Chase Madison, owner of the second-furthest discus throw in the United States in 2015, has qualified for and competed at two Olympic Trials, 8 USATF National Championships, is a two-time NCAA All-American (at University of Kentucky), an SEC Champion, and the proud owner of 2,549 days without a PR during his professional career.
Don't be so hard on yourself.....lighten up and just run! Dr. Margaret Smith looks at the subject on athlete self-criticism.
Regardless of whether the performance goes down as your all-time best or worst, there are positive elements that you made happen. And knowing what it is you did - including what you did well - is where you start to generate an action plan for improvement.
Extrinsic motivation is easy to caricature, and intrinsic motivation easy to glorify. But the truth is that motivation, like many a Facebook relationship status, is complicated.
In a day and age when runners are measured by their PR, Dr Margaret Smith discusses the comparison of Average Race Time vs PR.
It’s that time of the season when your coach is pulling back on the reins of your training. How to do set sensible goals for the championship season? Margaret Smith discusses the topic in her latest article!
If you stuffed a bunch of college coaches -- from all sports -- into one single room and asked them what they look for in a recruit, there’s at least one skill nearly every single one of them would agree on.
Making the conversion from practice to race is an issue athletes face each time they throw on a uniform. Dr. Margaret Smith discusses the issue and ways to cope with it.