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 explains how athletes can better manage anxiety through visualization, routine, and reframing.