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Athlete discipline

Trevor L Taylor between the uprights of a squat rack, wearing a heart rate strap and wrist wrap

Trevor L Taylor is a former Division I athlete who went on to train in Taekwondo, competitive weightlifting and road cycling before taking up CrossFit, and the entries in this cluster explain the disciplines and training methods behind that history: deliberate practice, periodization, CrossFit, Taekwondo and Olympic weightlifting, along with two essays on carrying sport habits into business. Practice matters less than many assume at the very top: one large review found it explains only a small share of the differences among elite athletes, ScienceDaily reported. The governing bodies of these sports reshape themselves too, from the world Taekwondo federation changing its name, as The Washington Post covered, to CrossFit putting itself up for sale, The New York Times reported.

Entries in Athlete discipline

  • A plain hardboard clipboard with a steel clip on a white background, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on scouting reports for business meetings

    Scouting Reports for Business Meetings

    Nine fields on a single page turn an unknown counterpart into tendencies you can plan around.

  • Handwritten field notebooks of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace open in a glass display case, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on training logs and investment journals

    Training Logs and Investment Journals Work Alike

    Write the plan before the result, grade the reasoning apart from the luck, and let the record change the next move.

  • A wooden pyramid metronome with its cover off standing beside an acoustic guitar on a wood floor, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on deliberate practice

    Deliberate Practice

    Structured, feedback driven practice matters, though less than the famous hour count suggests.

  • A silver mechanical stopwatch with a sixty second dial resting on rock in the snow, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on periodization

    Periodization

    Training planned in nested cycles of load and lightening that began in Soviet sport science and still argued over.

  • Gymnastic rings and pull up rigs under a wooden roof in an empty CrossFit gym, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on CrossFit

    CrossFit

    A daily workout posted online became thousands of independent gyms, a sport and a running safety debate.

  • An empty taekwondo training hall with blue mats, kicking targets and flags along the far wall, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on taekwondo

    Taekwondo

    A Korean kicking art that became an Olympic sport, then changed again when sensors began keeping score.

  • Red, blue, yellow and green competition bumper plates stacked in a rack beside a barbell on a platform, from the Trevor L Taylor entry on Olympic weightlifting

    Olympic Weightlifting

    Two lifts, three referees and a total that leaves no room for excuses or second chances.