by Josephine Perry | Dec 27, 2017 | Book reviews, Books, Performance Psychology
Tim Ferris – known for the 4 hour work week recently wrote to a bunch of successful people he admired. He asked them 11 questions: What is the book or books you’ve given most as a gift and why? What purchase of...
by Josephine Perry | Dec 20, 2017 | Athlete Stories, Goal setting, Motivation, Performance Psychology, Sports Psychology
A few weeks ago I got the chance to interview the freestyle mountain biker, Matt Jones. I work with lots of cyclists but none of them are yet doing the kind of tricks that Matt routinely fits into his rides and I was fascinated to find out how he approaches...
by Josephine Perry | Dec 13, 2017 | Goal setting, Motivation, Nerves and emotions
We so often talk about positive or negative thoughts. And much of the work from a cognitive behavioural perspective (that many sport psychologists work from) pushes the idea of identifying and then reframing our negative thoughts into more positive ones. This can be...
by Josephine Perry | Dec 7, 2017 | Exercise Addiction
I have been working on a piece of research over the last year to try to see if there are any links between the amount of fitness technologies athletes use and their risk of exercise addiction. I am presenting the findings at the annual conference for Sport...
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