Posts Tagged ‘ swimming ’

Listen to our Podcast of the week – An interview with Matt Reed after a training session this winter by Dr. Stephen Walker, CC-AASP Matt Reed was born in New Zealand but moved to the USA several years ago when his love for elite triathlete Kelly Rees brought him here.  Competing for the USA,...
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By Melinda Frey, Ph.D. – CC-AASP, University of Utah In the summer of 2006, we conducted a study to examine the race preparation strategies of age-group Olympic distance triathletes competing in select races in the State of Utah. Our objective was to understand the basic differences in preparation between the top and bottom 25%...
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“In a complete training program, the mind is as important as the body. Many top amateur and professional athletes know that mental fitness, as much or more than physical fitness, gives them an edge over their competitors. But just what is mental training and what is it not?” From an article in Pez by...
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“Humans think around 60,000 thoughts a day, and the quality of these thoughts is becoming increasingly important in a sport where a hundredth of a second is an eternity.” From an article on About.com by Craig Townsend. Here’s the full article. Here’s another quote: “One of the best ways to overcome negative thoughts before...
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“To be effective, like any skill, imagery needs to be developed and practiced regularly. There are four elements to mental imagery – Relaxation, Realism, Regularity and Reinforcement (the 4Rs).” This article by Brian Mac can help you incorporate visualization and mental imagery into your training toolbox. Here’s his overview on mental imagery.
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Here’s a lesson on the use of imagery from the Psychology News Blog. It’s a quick read.
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Podium Sports Journal delivers the best of applied sport psychology and provides coaches and athletes with the practical mental conditioning tools and techniques necessary to achieve peak performance including important skills related to motivation, goal setting, competitive drive, overtraining, anxiety, anger, concentration, visualization and imagery, leadership, teamwork, coaching, recovery from injury, eating disorders, substance...
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The following is from Joanna Zeiger’s blog. This is the last part of an entry where she describes her biggest disappointments. She has the great attitude you’d expect from an athlete of her calibre. “Most of the big disappointments in my career involved races in which I was carried off the course or driven...
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In late March, Simply Stu interviewed our own Dr Walker on training the mind for triathlons. You can get the podcast of that interview here.
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Podium’s Podcast of the Week: An Interview and Talk by Dr. Jerry Lynch – author of “Way of the Champion” Editor’s note: Jerry Lynch enlightened our evening with a most compelling view of The Way of the Champion, his eigth book and probably his most important to date. Both inspiring and insightful, this is...
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