Take a listen to Michael Johnson on Desert Island Discs recently. In the first two minutes he’s talking about, not what percentage of success is physical or mental, but that you need to be 100% at both. Also about the pursuit of being the best you can be…
Two high performance golden nuggets in two minutes. [...]
Great interview on Test Match Special at the moment with Matt Prior, England cricket team’s wicket keeper, talking about what it’s like to be on tour, revealing some elements of what’s making England a great team at the moment:
having a few rules, “nothing that you wouldn’t want to have anyway”
awareness of how different individuals need [...]
Andy Murray’s epic semi-final today in the Australian open showed once again the fine margins between success and failure at that elite level of competition. With such fine margins it’s virtually impossible to pinpoint the exact difference between the players, whether it was mental, tactical, technical physical or something else (what’s for sure is that [...]
Ever heard “you’re only as good as your last goal/game/result”, as a way to encourage continued effort i.e. if my last result was a win, then if I want to keep up my success/reputation I need to win again, so I need to keep working hard and practicing and doing those things that helped me [...]
K2 have very a proud relationship with the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust, a charitable body set up to provide life chances to young people who haven’t had the same good fortune or opportunities as so many of us. Dame Kelly Holmes is a double Olympic gold medal winner from the Athens Olympics in 2004, [...]