Posts by UCANDOIT

You’ve probably already spent over 5 minutes on social media today. Why not spend 5 minutes on yourself as well? Setting aside 5 minutes a day to work on something specific that you’ve been putting off is much easier than you realize. Want to learn Spanish? Work on your gymnastic skills? How about mastering a…

We wake up in the morning, it’s a new day, and a new beginning. We should always think of it as a blank slate. To forget (or at least put in our mental closet of debris) the negative, the stress, and the mistakes of the previous day. To start out fresh with new vigor and…

… or even the humungous things I was with my daughter yesterday, and we were talking about distractions.  How people distract themselves from their purpose in life. Which is kind of a gnarly topic in and of itself.  Do we have to have a specific purpose?  Can we have many purposes, or are we distracting ourselves…

Swimming People have a love/hate relationship with swimming because it is so technical, but it’s not really.  The biggest block that most athletes have is that they think in body parts.  They think if I move this arm this way, then that will automatically happen.  They think that if they rotate their core then they…

Picking a marathon to do is not only a fine art, but also is totally determined by your needs and goals.  People do marathons for various reasons:  new challenge, motivation to workout, friend asked you to help them, and to run faster.  I’m going to discuss how to pick your marathon depending on your needs. A…

This quote is a favorite Portugese saying.  My husband has used this phrase to me over and over again, and I find it appropriate in coaching athletes. Overthinking something can cause you to miss the experience, the feelings, or screwing up your body. We all want to improve.  Fix a movement pattern, eat better, race better,…

A flip turn is simply a change of direction:  Head goes in, head goes out. The biggest hang up about learning how to do a flip turn is getting over the whole idea of doing a tuck and roll.  A flip turn is not a summersault. You go into the wall…and come off the wall. …

Nineteen years ago I decided I wanted to do triathlons. I had spent the previous 22 years being strictly a runner.  My life and ego revolved being a runner.  I spent time agonizing over workouts;  how fast or how slow I was on any given workout or race.  If I didn’t get my ‘number’ I…

You breath on average 26,000 times a day.  Every time you inhale, your entire spinal column should move, thus creating space between vertebrae.  Every time you exhale the space closes down back to your normal spinal curve. Lay down for a few minutes and notice where you feel the breath going in your body.  Do…

My goal going into this event was twofold.  The first was to win, and the second was to have fun.  I can now check that box. The competition at this event was from the women from Ardent, the perennial favorites as they have been dominating competitions for the past few years.  It was going to…