Brain In The Game Sport Mind Coaching Podcast

Brain In The Game Sport Mind Coaching Podcast episodes:

• 04.23.2019

  BITG 075: Team Culture – Building a Successful Culture in Your Team

  Much is made of the importance of a team culture when it comes to success – it is often touted as the secret sauce to a team’s results. In fact, Sir Alex Ferguson, former Manchester United Football Manager (soccer) would...

  
• 03.19.2019

  BITG 074: Cycle of Performance – When is the right time to improve, to perform, or to recover?

  By taking a deep look at the typical yearly cycle most athletes traditionally follow, we uncover the hidden mental and emotional minefield athletes unknowingly put themselves through every year: The pre-season The start of season The mid-to-end of season, and The...

  
• 03.05.2019

  BITG073: Effective Emotional Management – Where to put your emotion to springboard you forward with purpose and control

  Where to put your emotion to springboard you forward with purpose and control. Where you choose to focus your emotions will dictate the quality and consistency of your performance. So in this episode of Brain in the Game, we look...

  
• 02.19.2019

  BITG072: Sustainable Performance – 4 Key Frames to Optimise Our Own Unique Characteristics

  How to set sustainable objectives and goals, and 4 Key Frames necessary to consistently perform successfully. PLUS A limited time special offer for our podcast listeners with our FREE video series: The Performance Framework – see here for details. In...

  
• 02.05.2019

  BITG 071: Pre-Season Goal Setting – 5 Key Steps to Staying on Track

  Good intentions are not good enough. Statistically, they say the third Monday of the new year is traditionally one of our mentally darkest days for modern society, as we realise those New Years resolutions that we made with all good...

  
• 01.21.2019

  BITG 070: Mental Blocks and how we can better deal with them – FOREVER

  Almost every coach will understand the frustration and pain that comes from an athlete being mentally and emotionally paralysed by a mental block. That uncharacteristic derailing and shuddering halt of a normally calm, in control and capable athlete by what...

  
• 08.10.2017

  BITG 069: Re-thinking the Blame Game

  Whose fault was it, really? When things are going well and athletes are winning, people love to take the credit. However, when things fall over, those same people are very quick to play the “Blame Game”. “It wasn’t my fault… they...

  
• 07.06.2017

  BITG 068: Do I Fit the Selectors Mould, or do I Create My Own Style?

  Who are you playing for? It’s an age-old conundrum for elite and professional athletes, “Do I change who I am and how I play to fit the mould of the selectors current criteria OR do I back my own unique...

  
• 06.08.2017

  BITG 067: Self-Belief is a System, Not a Feeling – Building Sustainable Self-Belief

  Believe it or not, athletes – more than others – tend to suffer with low self-esteem and low self-belief. This sounds bizarre when you think just how cocky they can appear on the outside. That is, until you understand the 24/7 public...

  
• 05.25.2017

  BITG 066: An Athletes Guide to Managing Your Brain – 4 Steps to Beat Mental Fatigue

  Every athlete gets fatigued. Heck! We train hard, we push ourselves to the limits and beyond – so it’s no surprise we become physically fatigued. However, there is a BIG difference between physical fatigue and mental fatigue. One is sore...

  
• 11.25.2016

  BITG 065: Three Steps To Effective Performance Preparation

  A performance limerick from Dublin, Ireland. The second in our series of podcasts on the global tour, this week coming from Dublin. As the internal and external pressures of performing becomes imminent we “can” be influenced to begin to doubt...

  
• 11.13.2016

  BITG 064: The Perils Of Diving For The Line – A Message From Tokyo

  Taking Your Eye Off The Ball As the end of many athletes seasons approaches and we begin to think about putting our feet up for a few weeks well earned rest, we can “almost” be forgiven for taking our eye...

  
• 08.31.2016

  BITG 063: Control of your performance – Controlling what you can control and letting go of what you cannot

  Our sense of “Control” or at the very least our sense of taking steps in “controlling” our environment, our preparation and our performance is a core “Need” as an athlete, we need to know what we are doing is the...

  
• 08.07.2016

  BITG 062: 5 Steps To Handling Big Competition Pressure – How To Value Every Performance

  As we settle into the 2016 Rio Olympics and we are consumed by the spectacle that is the summer games, we turn our focus to the best of the best, those flawless performances, smashed world and olympic records and the...

  
• 05.05.2016

  BITG 061: Controlling your performance outcomes with a 3 legged stool

  Effectively managing your thoughts, feelings and actions. When things don’t go the way you planned with your performance, what triggers it for you? I mean, what REALLY triggers it for you, specifically? Is it a negative thought that grows from...

  
• 04.06.2016

  BITG 060: Recognising Your Performance Patterns

  Understanding how your behavioural patterns influence your performance, your mindset, your choices and your outcomes. Humans are hardwired to recognise patterns from our earliest moments – our parents faces, objects in the trees, even animals in the clouds. However, can you...

  
• 03.03.2016

  BITG 059: Athletes and Emotions – The Deep Connection Between Our Emotions and Our Performance

  What are you feeding your emotional monster? Keeping an athletes attitude on track is more about the words we choose to use rather than their desire to perform. The daily volatility of our emotions and our emotional perspectives can heavily...

  
• 02.04.2016

  BITG 058: Why Some Competitive Athletes Start Slow – A good start can lead to a great finish

  In this episode we look at why some competitive athletes adopt the strategy of starting slowly, in hope of building into their performance, and why that actually works AGAINST you more often than work FOR you. Many athletes do not...

  
• 05.21.2015

  BITG 057: Successful Professional Athletes Learn To Build A Life On The Road

  When you finally make it and leap into the world of international competition, becoming an athlete traveling nationally and globally for your sport and your country, it can become apparent very quickly that what you did to get there —...

  
• 05.07.2015

  BITG 056: Remembering Your Best Performance, Under Competition Pressure

  We have all been there at some stage haven’t we that “Performance amnesia” moment, where time stands still – just think back to school when all that study, all those late nights and all those anxious moments come down to...

  
• 04.23.2015

  BITG 055: Slaying Your Performance Demons

  We all have those demons that hold us back and stop us performing – it’s what we do with them that makes the difference. Be it as simple as a missed opportunity, a messed up skill or routine, or as...

  
• 04.09.2015

  BITG 054: Athletes – How do you Measure your Success in Sport?

  How do you measure your sporting success? Your gauge on success is as individual as your fingerprint. We all strive, at an animalistic level, to be successful. It’s part of our survival instinct, our social standing and our unique identity....

  
• 03.25.2015

  BITG 053: Male vs Female Athletes – Is there a difference in coaching them?

  Is there more to the sexes than we were lead to believe, from a coaches perspective? We often gravitate to either coaching boys or girls in our chosen sport. We also hear coaches frequently identify themselves as a ‘male coach’...

  
• 03.12.2015

  BITG 052: Sporting Performance Failures – How do you Manage the Inevitable?

  Sporting Performance Failures – It’s all about practical perspective. Elite, professional and extreme sport is a high investment way of life, not only financially but more importantly physically and emotionally too. And with that high investment comes the inevitable knocks...

  
• 02.25.2015

  BITG 051: Your Sustainability as an Athlete – What you do in the shower could hold the key!

  There is no denying it we are creatures of habit and how we do one thing tends to be how we do most things. What this means is if things are going great we tend to stay in that place... however...