Posts tagged Psychology
Understanding Cause and Effect in Endurance Sport

People are generally better at identifying that social media highlights people’s best lives and often are able to understand that most of what they see online is what people are choosing to filter out to the public. However, how good are they at recognising the consequences of actions? How good are people’s memories? Coach Philip explores this in this latest article.

 


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What are the mental performance skills endurance athletes need?

Here Coach Philip looks at the psychological makeup of endurance athletes and goes under the hood to find out what makes higher performers successful. Often athletes talk about mental toughness and the ability to “griz” it out. Though these are both admirable qualities, are they actually the main focus, or is there more to it than a tolerance or enjoyment of self-inflicted endurance?

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Resetting Motivation after a Lockdown for Athletes

The year 2020 will go down in many athletes logs as the year that never was, but why should it? We can all think about being able to pull a positive from a negative, and as we slowly get closer to a “normal” training regime again, how should we be planning for the future? What do we do with our previous goals, aspirations and hopes for what could have been in 2020?

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Changing the rules of the game – become a better athlete

Here Coach Philip discusses how viewing lockdowns, limits on training stresses and intensities as control sense is only going to lead to pushing back against the rules and trying to do what you have always done. Instead, view these new boundaries as a challenge and an opportunity, and suddenly, you can see that you are learning and developing far quicker as an athlete than ever before. Yes, there is a change in the landscape; yes, there is a change in the rules; yes, there is a change in the attitude we need to adopt. However, there is no reason to change the approach of deliberate and diligent practice seeking better versions of ourselves.

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Overcoming anxiety in open water swimming

Open water swimming can be a big limiter for a lot of people’s enjoyment of triathlon. However, it really doesn’t need to be. With more and more open water events becoming inclusive and the accessibility of open water swimming venues, Coach Soraya gives you some top tips to overcome any anxiety you may have and how to learn to love the open water environment.

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