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015: Athletes Need Balance – and why ON isn't always ON!
In this episode of Brain in the Game episode #15, we look at how we create realistic sustainability and longevity in our athlete's career.
Teaching them how to turn on and off to be either the student, the performer...
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014: Getting Results – The patterns and triggers of a successful performance
So you're not getting the results you were looking for as an athlete, a coach or even in life. And maybe you know you can achieve much, much more but not sure exactly how to get started...
It’s a common scenario and...
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013: Visualisation – The 5 most common mistakes made by athletes and coaches
In this episode we seek to understand why this most important coaching and performing tool isn’t utilised to its full potential and what are the most common mistakes made.
We know in order to be a champion athlete we...
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012: Moving Athletes from Amateur to Professional Thinking – How to build the team to do it
Unpacking the steps to take to traverse from amateur athlete, to professional athlete thinking.
We look at the specific steps an athlete can to follow in order to create the right internal and external environment to...
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011.2: Top 10 Questions Asked by Elite Athletes & Coaches the World Over – Part B
Clarification allows us to better understand and apply our interpretations
So having an opportunity to ask key questions, gain specificity and identify relevance is an important aspect of effective learning and...
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011.1: Top 10 Questions Asked by Elite Athletes & Coaches the World Over – Part A
A lot of emphasis is traditionally placed on the physical aspect of coaching athletes as coaches are taught how to identify, prepare and manage an athletes physical and technical needs.
However what many coaches are...
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010: Anchoring – The neurological triggering of specifically designed behaviours
Anchoring is one of those skills innate to us all. To create an anchor builds a cognitive link between our behaviours, our patterns, our emotions and our actions through associations and neurological cataloguing.
With...
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009: A Lesson in Mental Toughness
A lot of emphasis is placed on the mental toughness of athletes these days, so in this episode we explore what it takes for an athlete to push through when others would fold.
Every athlete gets impacted by their...
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008: Understanding Momentum – How to craft it, manage it, maintain it
We explore that fickle thing called momentum and why it is so important to understand in order to stay on the sporting trajectory we have planned for our career.
When something arises that is unforeseen, your momentum...
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007: Visualisation Techniques for Athletes – Why is visualisation so effective for athletes?
Visualisation and why it is so effective for athletes for building replicable Neural Pathways
This episode is an eye-opening look into the world of visualisation, and how it can help you attain precision and focus in...
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006: Calibrating the Mind – Building performance structure
In the world of neuroscience and cognitive behaviour there are many different ways of measuring the output capacity of our memory, each with their own take on this and unique ideas about what is and isn’t...
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005: Brain Triggers – Our sporting habits, rituals and behaviour
The difference between training to compete and training the way we want to compete.
What happens to our brains when it is triggered by an event?
Why is it our first action may not be our best action – and how do we...
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