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.
Measured doses of discomfort can yield improvements to self-awareness, motivation, and resilience.
Coach Julie Young explores the science, mental skills, and strategies that help us manage the stress of racing.
Accepting feedback and criticism is a necessary part in every athlete’s development. Coach Holicky details how to create the best mindset so you can achieve your full potential.
Coach Julie Young explores ways to develop mental skills to embrace discomfort as fuel for growth and performance.
Coach Grant Holicky discusses six ways by which all athletes can forge a better relationship with pain as a part of sport.
Coach Grant Holicky explains how athletes can better manage anxiety through visualization, routine, and reframing.
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.
We address questions on how to train grit for race situations, if you can safely override the central governor, and training for a five-day stage race.
Physiological improvements are not the only way to maximize performance. Dr. Cheung explores the psychology of feedback, deception, and perception.
Physical therapist, Ron Kochevar, deconstructs his belief systems around your individual capabilities such as pain and being in the right mental space to help your body heal.
We provide the psychological tools that will help both with uncertain circumstances in life (like a pandemic) and with addressing the emotional rollercoaster that is bike racing.
What is confidence? What is resiliency? What is pressure, and how can we better handle it? These are some of the questions we tackle in today’s episode.