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Alternative Baseball Mental Tactics Used By Two-Time World Series Champions

The Oregon State Beavers baseball team repeated as the 2006 and 2007 College World Series Champions. That was the first time a team has achieved this feat. But that wasn't the only "first". It was also the first time that high level collegiate at... Read >

Finding Time for your Pregnancy Workout

Having trouble finding time for your pregnancy workout routine?  It can feel like an added stress on top of full time work (or full time parenting), running a household and spending time with friends and family, but making time for healthy habits can g... Read >

When NOT To Do A Pregnancy Exercise Program

Pregnancy exercise is a great addition to any healthy pregnancy but the health of your baby is the most important thing of all.  So knowing when to put down the weights or hop off the treadmill and give yourself a rest from your pregnancy exercise progr... Read >

Pregnancy Food Plan – Top Eight Foods to Avoid

Having a pregnancy food plan in place is critical to both your health and that of your growing baby. Knowing which foods to avoid (or severely limit) during pregnancy is especially important. It's a time in a woman's life when she should be especially ca... Read >

Morning Sickness – Top Nine Tips for Fast Relief

Many of my pregnant friends would say that it really shouldn't be called "Morning sickness." They said that a more accurate term would be "Day sickness." I was lucky and only had a mild version of morning sickness, but it still wasn't fun. Unfortunatel... Read >

Pregnancy Nutrition – Is Caffeine OK?

Back in 1980 the FDA published a pregnancy nutrition warning advising women to restrict or eliminate their intake of caffeine because of its teratogenic effects (cause birth defects). This was echoed in 1994 with a review of over 200 medical journals by D... Read >

Pre-Natal Vitamins - What The Mayo Clinic Pregnancy Guide Didn't Tell You

The Mayo Clinic Pregnancy Guide has a lot right about what's important to eat during pregnancy. They speak of how it's critical to have good eating habits while trying to conceive because major organs form during the first few weeks of pregnancy-before yo... Read >

Why You Can’t Afford to Skip Strength Training Exercise During Pregnancy

Most people start an exercise program to lose weight. Of course, this isn't the objective of exercise during pregnancy but there are lots of other reasons to get started on or continue on a regular exercise during pregnancy routine. When you think o... Read >

The Keys to Junior Golf Success

As a golf performance coach, I've seen many changes in the junior golf world over the past twelve years. The main difference is in the level of competition. The popularity of junior golf has made it far more challenging to get scholarships to colleges f... Read >

Breathe Like Tiger Woods – The Secret to A Fluid Golf Swing

Tiger Woods and other top pro golfers use a specific breathing method to relax their bodies for a fluid golf swing. You can easily do the same thing. But first, let's do a quick test to see where you currently stand. In just a moment, I want you to ... Read >

NLP for Golf Training

As a professional mental golf training coach, I've become known for my use of energy psychology to break through barriers and assist golfers in slashing strokes off their handicap. But energy psychology is only one of the renegade tools that I utilize wit... Read >

Why Traditional Golf Psychology is Useless and What to Do Instead

Hundreds of thousands of golfers have tried the traditional golf psychology (positive thinking) methods to improve their golf scores. Some of them have had some success - some of the time. But from speaking with thousands of golfers, it seems that for ... Read >

Mental Golf Tips To Improve Your Performance

This brief article reveals three mental golf tips utilizing a cutting-edge technique known as "tapping". What is Tapping? "Tapping" is a do-it-yourself form of acupuncture, except you don't use needles. Instead you simply "tap" on a few "clearing po... Read >

The Truth About Golf and the Zone

The Zone - it is the Holy Grail of all athletes in every sport (but especially in golf)...the elusive mind/body state in which everything comes together. Golfers describing the experience of being "in the zone" usually sound like this: "Everything f... Read >

More Freedom with Your Golf Club

Believe it or not, the simple act of a deep breath - when done properly - instantly releases tension from your body and allows you to achieve the fluid and effortless swing of the top tour players, with any golf club in your bag. Most golfers know that... Read >