by Josephine Perry | Apr 5, 2020 | Motivation, News, Support
When we know athletes are about to have a tricky time; a training camp they need to go on with team mates they dislike, a really hard period of training focusing on a skill they are currently weak in, the biggest competition of their year that is fuelled with...
by Josephine Perry | Mar 28, 2020 | Motivation, News, Performance Psychology, Support
I remember interviewing Dame Sarah Storey and asking her if she’d ever used Imagery. She said she uses it all the time; but whilst on the bike, visualising the events going on around her. Never lying on a dusty floor being talked at. She couldn’t see the value in...
by Josephine Perry | Mar 12, 2020 | Motivation, News, Performance Psychology, Project Paris, Sports Psychology, Support
A virus we hadn’t even heard of when we entered many of this season’s races and competitions may now cancel many of them. We might feel upset and stressed because everything we have been working towards feels uncertain and also feel guilty for feeling that way as we...
by Josephine Perry | Mar 3, 2020 | Confidence, Motivation, Performance Psychology, Project Paris, Sports Psychology
So the big focus for this past week was The Big Half. A fab half marathon which starts near the Tower of London, heads under the Rotherhithe tunnel all the way to Canary Wharf, back to Tower Bridge and along to Greenwich. You finish in front of the Cutty Sark. We got...
by Josephine Perry | Feb 28, 2020 | Improve, Motivation, Performance Psychology, Project Paris, Sports Psychology
The Brighton Half marathon was fun. But it took a lot of mental energy to make it that way. A few days before with Storm Dennis on his way they decided there would be no finish barrier or infrastructure that could be blown over but other than that all was going ahead....
by Josephine Perry | Feb 19, 2020 | Confidence, Motivation, Performance Psychology, Project Paris, Sports Psychology, Support
A good week for training. Started badly though. Went for a run and after 25 minutes felt dizzy and blugh. Did another 5 minutes but no better so turned round and headed back. Next day’s intervals not much better. But a swim on the Thursday was pretty magic. My coach...
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