Mindset, Leadership & Well-Being For Athletes & Leaders in Sport & Business to Thrive In & Out of Competition |Squash 🌎#4 | 5 World Titles | Aus Head Coach
"Today, when you guys go to lift and you go to practice, those are opportunities for you to get better.
You're not going to win the national championship today.
It's not being played today.
But, you're going to put yourself in position to win it by what you do today."
@JayBilas
Self-talk to launch behavioural activation…and behavioural approach…
Energy forward…
Approach behaviour…
Control…
Aggression…
Eliminate the threat…
Self-efficacy…
Intrinsic motivation
Extrinsic motivation…
“I’m in charge…I’m in control…I dominate and own my mind and body…”
5 Non-Negotiable Beliefs Every Clutch Athlete Needs:
I've prepared for this moment
Pressure is why I am here
I belong here
I grow from mistakes
I control my response to everything
Believe these, and you’ll thrive when it matters most. 💪 #ClutchPerformance#AthleteMindset
I was asked recently about setting goals with results or ranking attached to them and how it can increase pressure... That's the point, mate....
https://t.co/DenY2VdJym
Athletes: I would love to invite you to this free training I am guiding next week...
Join me online to discover the 3 traits I believe are critical to performing confidently in high-pressure moments.
Australia: 10 am Tues 6th Aug (AEST) New York: 8 pm Monday 5th Aug.
I love this video of Conor McGregor…
I love it because this is a good example of a world class sporting competitor claiming something that is (probably) a misrepresentation of what actually happened.
I’m being bold, and hopefully not disrespectful to Conor, but let me explain…
In the video, McGregor refers to ‘manifesting’ his knockout blow on Jose Aldo. The Law of Attraction he describes it as - see it, say it…and it will happen.
The problem with this logic is that, if this were true, he’d win every fight. He’d simply see what he wanted, say what he wanted…and it would happen.
Back in the real world, credit to him and his team during his training camp for working on what is called a contextual prior. Simply, they’ve studied Jose Aldo hard, they’ve found a specific movement pattern (probably an unconscious one) that they can exploit, and then they’ve created drills in training to practice exploiting that movement pattern. This analysis has built McGregor’s knowledge-of the fight he’s training for. You can see him practicing the move in th video below (even mimicking Aldo’s lumbering movement).
Now, the training…
This is where repetition is important in training…but a dynamic sense of repetition. This would likely start in an isolated activity in order to train an ‘action-for’ the movement bias. Then adding in more contextual factors such an opposing fighter who would fight in an Aldo style (giving McGregor the opportunity to develop knowledge-in the fight…for example, timing, what to do if he misses the punch and so on)…
Actions-for
Knowledge-of
Knowledge-in
Imagery or mental rehearsal can indeed play a big part in the learning process as fight night gets closer. To envision using multiple senses José Aldo’s movement patterns that present an opportunity to throw a right and knock him out. Such imagery or mental rehearsal can enhance actions-for, knowledge-of, and knowledge-in. But this alone is not enough. Intelligent, dynamic practice is vital.
Do check out my Sport Psych Show podcast episode with @JonMackey14 where we discuss training with contextual priors in mind here: https://t.co/Qj3LHklcWc
“People didn’t love us for our wins. They loved us for the way we carried ourselves every single day. The way we played for one another, the joy we played with, the passion we played with, the competitive spirit we had, the way we high-fived and celebrated our teammates success,” Caitlin Clark
#MarchMaddness @IowaWBB
𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!
🐝 73 🐯 55
Hornets erase a 3-pt 4th qtr deficit & outscore ISU 28-9 in the 4th to advance
🐝 Versteeg sets single-season assist record with 201 after 13 pts & 12 asst
🐝 Orio 19 pts & 5 reb
🐝 Falk 17 pts & 6 reb
🐝 Hanson 12 pts & 9 reb
𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗘
🐝 45
🔴 68
Hanson with her third straight double-double thanks to 19 points (7-12 FG) and 11 rebounds... Versteeg with 7 assists... Lautaimi with 8 points & 3 reb. #StingersUp
This might be the most important 2-minute segment in the history of Huberman Lab
"Your experience of life and your level of motivation and drive depends on how much dopamine you have relative to your recent experience." - @hubermanlab
Dopamine is the currency of life
Let’s go! How great it was to spend some face to face time and be there to support you at the US Open leading to your Highest WR! #26 and counting! @lucybeecroft
🗣"Breaking into the top 20 by the end of the season is a big goal of mine"
England's @lucybeecroft is making moves on the PSA World Tour after a great start to the new season - we caught up with her to talk about her form and more 💪
Read more here 👇
https://t.co/0JkciiymJ6
The WSF, @USSquash and the PSA welcome the decision by the @LA28 Organising Committee to recommend squash for inclusion in the LA2028 Olympic sports programme.
Full statement 👇
#LA28
CATCH UP!
We were in our feelings on Mornings with @BenDavis74 as we digested the GF losses with special guests to help us get over it.
- #NRL@brenttate3
- Sports Psych @pprice23
- #AFL Dean Solomon
Listen to all of our guests on today’s podcast ⤵️
https://t.co/YoOaOS6U8C