How to Manage Competition Stress
Coach Julie Young explores the science, mental skills, and strategies that help us manage the stress of racing.
Grit. Mental toughness. Resilience.
Fitness isn’t what separates the elites. It’s their ability to suffer, to manage their attitude, and to know when to push and when to pull back.
See what sport psychology methods high-level athletes use and which we can adopt during our own training and racing.
Coach Julie Young explores the science, mental skills, and strategies that help us manage the stress of racing.
The very best athletes are as strong mentally as they are physically. In the Sport Psychology Pathway from Fast Talk Labs, we explore how to build mental skills with experts like Dr. Simon Marshall, Julie Emmerman, Grant Holicky, Lesley Paterson, and Julie Young.
Coach Grant Holicky details the concept of mindfulness, how to attain it, and how it can help performance.
We discuss the underlying principles of an athlete’s psychological welfare, and why our thoughts and feelings are simply emergent properties of brain and nervous system physiology.
Is it better to focus on one big race a year, or have several targets? Is performance or process more important when it comes to goal setting? Two Olympians help us tackle these complex questions.
Coach Grant Holicky discusses the critical process by which goals are created, and also the method by which they are achieved.
We explore whether Strava and other new training apps can make you faster, and how to effectively fit them into a structured training plan.
Coach and author Will Murray joins Coach Ryan Kohler for a discussion of what makes a useful set of goals, how to develop them, the psychology of goals, and much more.
Head Coach Ryan Kohler and Grant Holicky field questions on goal setting, cyclocross training, polarized training as you age, and cross training.
What lessons did we learn from a challenging 2020? What event or adventure plans do we have in 2021? We dive in.
The offseason is the perfect time to assess our previous season, set goals and strategies for the coming season, and incorporate those into our training plans.
Trevor did several great interviews with four top pros—Toms Skujins, Kiel Reijnen, Joey Rosskopf, and Larry Warbasse—for an article he was writing several years ago, and now we want to share their full wisdom.
We take on questions about training while fasted, goal–setting analysis, and have a discussion on the polarized training approach.