The Mental Endurance Podcast

This week on the 25th and final episode of the Mental Endurance Podcast, Vanessa is sharing her juiciest top 5 lessons from racing Ironman 70.3 St. George. These 5 tips will help you translate the work you put into your training to racing at any distance. Listen in to learn how the application of Vanessa’s lessons could change your next race day.

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Do you feel like there is something holding you back from your big, bold goals, but you can’t quite put your finger on it? This week Vanessa explains that this could be because we are micro quitting. Micro quits are the tiny, subtle, almost invisible ways that we quit on our goals, that slowly chip away at our progress over time. Vanessa challenges to find our own micro quits, and explains how we can shift towards micro commitments instead.

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On this BONUS episode Vanessa gives us her top three race day tips that you can use to make the most of the day at your next start line. Tune in to get her quick tips that will get you excited and ready to tackle your races this season!

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Vanessa is back this week to talk about an important topic related to our performance: self doubt. If you know your doubts are limiting you, be sure to listen to this episode! Vanessa simplifies what doubt is and shares the 5 things that we can do to keep doubt from holding us back.

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If you listen to this podcast chances are you identify as an athlete. This week Vanessa reminds us that, while we are athletes - we are humans first and foremost. Humans with human brains that want to keep us safe and comfortable, and we take our whole selves with us wherever we go. Vanessa explains how we can tend to our humanness to improve our performance as athletes.

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Goals are great! Big, bold, heart pounding goals motivate us to achieve amazing things in all areas of our lives. But what happens when our bold goals start to feel overwhelming? This week, Vanessa discusses two ways that she has seen this problem arising in athletes, and how we can shift from thinking our goal is the problem to realize that the real problem is that we often focus on the wrong thing. Vanessa gives us her best techniques to shift our thinking to focus on the progress we’ve made to build confidence and remind ourselves that our bold goals are within our reach.

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This week on the show Vanessa is chatting with her athlete Lilias Young. Lilias has been working with Vanessa for four months now, and she speaks about her experience in mental training and what she is getting from her physical training as a result. She tells us about where she was mentally four months ago, and how she has put her mental training from Vanessa into practice. Lilias’ shares some great insights into her mental training work, and shows us what is possible when you train your mind like you train your body.

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We are conditioned to believe that we have to earn what we have and who we are. This belief influences our actions and the choices we make. As endurance athletes this means many of us believe that we have to earn the right to call ourselves “athletes”, “runners”, “triathletes” or whichever title we might be striving for; that our target pace or watts will validate the identities we’re seeking. Why do we delegate this belief in ourselves to our data numbers or other external factors? This week Vanessa takes a deep dive into how our big, beautiful human brains can sabotage our belief in ourselves, and gives us two simple steps to help build our self-belief (before the data!)

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Race season is about to (hopefully!) ramp up in the US, which for many of us triathletes is so exciting after a year of no official start lines. However, racing can also come with a lot of doubt or pressure in the form of the expectations that we put on ourselves as athletes. Vanessa offers us two types of expectations that she believes athletes succumb to, and tells us how we can shift our mental energy from feelings of doubt to confidence and capability.

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Last week Vanessa taught us that it is on each of us to take responsibility for our own belief, but where is the best place to start? This week she gives us one belief that we can start to work on right now; our result capacity. A greater result capacity leads to a greater capacity to achieve. Vanessa gives us three questions to ask ourselves that will allow us to get curious about our current result capacity, and teaches us how we can shift our definition of capacity to be centered on what can be produced without limits.

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