Resilience
To finish races…It helps if you don’t stop.A large part of “not stopping” is Resilience. Resilience is what gets you through those hard training sessions and races that just hurt. A lot!Resilience is not...
Category: Mindset
Self Sabotage
Self Sabotage – It is a natural protective human behaviour to Self Sabotage when things get tough. To race well, we must learn to recognise when the “self sabotage mechanism is limiting us too much”, and find ways to overcome it.
Laugh in the face of Adversity?
Stimulating our Parasympathetic nervous system calms us down
Can reframing your thoughts improve performance
Framing your thoughts is a powerful way of getting you out of a mid race slump.
Self Talk for Performance Paddling
Self Talk is: Self-Talk can be Instructional or Motivational Self Talk: Instructional They will be discussed at length in the Skills posts Self Talk: Motivational Mind Training is still hard work but worth it...
Motivation
There are two types of Motivation that are critical to racing success.
Paddling Psychology
Paddling Psychology
There are two areas that you need to perfect for success
1. Training Mindset
2. Racing Mindset
Why Race
Racing is great. Here are some reasons to start racing
Mindset Basics
To quote Larry Cain; “The mind wins first”.This is so true but it is fair to say that without preparation “The Mind loses first” On most races, the most likely culprit for poor performance,...