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.
Coach Wenzel helps answer questions on travel, final race prep, big gear work on LSD rides, pushing through exhaustion, and training races.
Just because you have limited time doesn’t mean you can’t create a training plan that involves an overload stimulus. We show you how.
We explore how athletes can evolve and find more fulfillment from their sport with pro cyclist Lachlan Morton
How much training is too much? Where is the drop-off in terms of time spent training and race-day results?
Many athletes worry that they will lose fitness if they skip too many days of training. While detraining does occur over time, there are also many benefits to taking a break.
Pick a flat or mostly flat terrain, start biking, then listen to Colby Pearce’s moving meditation podcast to relax and think deeply as you ride.
Train by data or train by feel? Here to unpack the duality of data and intuition in endurance athletics is cycling coach and former pro cyclist, Julie Young.
In his continued efforts to help you find balance between life and sport, in this episode, Colby focuses on the six foundational principles of a well-balanced life, as prescribed by Paul Chek of the Chek Institute.
We take a step back, off the bike, to focus on the alignment of your mental state.
In episode 104, we wanted to give you something you’ve come to love about Fast Talk: a discussion on the science of training, and specifically answering your training questions about respiratory exchange rates, effectively using your bike commutes, and how to balance life with training.
We discuss self-care, spending time on relationships, knowing your personal limits, and working to keep your passions alive while training and racing.
Dr. Paul Gastin, Brent Brookwalter, Mac Cassin, Frank Overton, and Armando Mastracci join us to talk about the most important part of training: recovery.