by Coach Al Lyman, CSCS, FRCms | Aug 15, 2014 | and Life Balance
What is it with the scatter brained fidgetiness that seems to take hold on certain days? Those days when despite our inner desire to make things happen, we just don’t settle in. Those days when our ambition is overtaken by a gravitational pull toward pretty much...
by Coach Al Lyman, CSCS, FRCms | Jul 14, 2014 | and Life Balance
One of the key elements of daily fulfillment (yes, you read that right…fulfillment can be and is realized daily…a topic for another post) is living according to your deepest held values. Just to be clear, I’m not talking about values in the “golden ruleâ€...
by Coach Al Lyman, CSCS, FRCms | Jul 5, 2014 | and Life Balance
A lot of the stresses in our lives are pretty routine. As athletes who also work, go to school, and live and interact with other people, we face, and often welcome, those elements of training and everyday life that are challenging and which require intense mental...
by Coach Al Lyman, CSCS, FRCms | Jun 13, 2014 | and Life Balance, Ask Coach Al, Musings from Coach Al, Musings on Training, Podcast, Running
[powerpress] “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” – C.S. Lewis “Our best successes often come after our greatest dissapointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher “Reflect, learn, go again.” – Ben Reyna Every athlete, regardless of the sport (runner,...
by Coach Al Lyman, CSCS, FRCms | Jun 13, 2014 | and Life Balance
Passion has always moved me. Sure, I haven’t always known to call it that, but I have always been drawn to the outward expressions of people living passion driven lives. Whether it’s through something they produce or create, what they say, or what they do with their...