From my experiences as an athlete, coach and sport psychology consultant it has become more and more obvious to me that high performance is in the middle. The zone that some many athletes take about getting into involves a twecking mentality to find the right balance. So many times athletes are changing aspects of their performances that ultimately cause them to jump over the zone without ever really finding the zone. The main cause for jumping over the zone is focusing to much energy on what the athlete is doing wrong. When an athlete pays the majority of their attention to what is not working it often results to changes. Here are is some food for thought. What happens when an athlete over trains? What happens when an athlete under trains? What happens when we sleep to much? What happens when we don’t sleep enough? Etc etc. The best performers whether athletes, business people, professionals, parents appear to me to find a nice balance in everything they do. I really can’t think about anything that is better when we do it to the extreme.