by Kolin Kriitmaa | Feb 12, 2026 | The Performance Edge
“Discipline is a love letter to your future self.” If your athlete starts the day dysregulated, distracted, or drained, their performance is already behind before the whistle blows. What your athlete does in the first 15 minutes of the day can quietly shape...
by Kolin Kriitmaa | Feb 5, 2026 | The Performance Lab
“The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” As an athlete you hear this all the time:“Compete harder.”“Beat your matchup.”“Outwork everyone.” But here’s something most athletes are never taught 👇 The original meaning of...
by Kolin Kriitmaa | Jan 29, 2026 | The Performance Edge
If you’re the parent of a competitive or high-performance athlete, you’ve probably seen it before. Your athlete looks physically fine – but something feels off. They’re more irritable than usual. They struggle to focus.Their confidence dips.They overreact to...
by Kolin Kriitmaa | Jan 22, 2026 | The Performance Lab
Confidence is often misunderstood in sport. Many athletes believe confidence is something you either have or don’t have. Something that shows up when you’re winning and disappears the moment things go wrong. Athletes often even think you have to “have” confidence in...
by Kolin Kriitmaa | Jan 13, 2026 | The Performance Lab
One of the biggest misunderstandings in sport – and in performance more broadly – is the belief that discomfort means something is wrong. We often mistake the difference between pain and discomfort. In reality, discomfort is often a sign that...
