by Josephine Perry | Aug 27, 2018 | Athlete Stories, Motivation, Performance Psychology, Sports Psychology
Cyclist Kristin Armstrong won three Olympic Gold medals in the Time Trial in Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016. After each Olympic Games she retired but came back 18 months before the next Olympics. Performance in Mind chatted to Kristin about her drive to keep...
by Josephine Perry | Aug 13, 2018 | Exercise Addiction, Performance Psychology, Social media, Sports Psychology
Headline points: My research has found that the risk of exercise addiction in ultra-endurance athletes (marathon runners, long distance cyclists, half / full Ironman triathletes) is 44.7%. This figure is higher than has previously been reported in other sports. My...
by Josephine Perry | Jun 17, 2018 | Book reviews, Books, Performance Psychology, Sports Psychology, Support
I attended a week long workshop a couple of years ago at the English Institute of Sport and one of the people leading it was Steve Ingham. He had some great advice on how to build our skills as applied sport scientists so I bought his book as soon as it came out. And...
by Josephine Perry | Jun 13, 2018 | Book reviews, Books, Performance Psychology, Sports Psychology
Not your normal sports performance book. The language is much jokier and friendlier than you’d usually expect from a professor (in public anyway) and there is a lot more swearing than I have spotted in any of the other sport psych book, or most books really! It is...
by Josephine Perry | Jun 9, 2018 | Book reviews, Books, Motivation, Performance Psychology, Sports Psychology
As soon as I opened Endure the green-eyed monster snuck out. This is absolutely the book I wish I’d written. If you are an endurance athlete, curious about how to go faster or longer Hutchinson has collated all the research that you should be relying upon. What he...
by Josephine Perry | Jan 2, 2018 | Athlete Wellbeing, Performance Psychology, Support
January provides the obvious opportunity to assess where we are in life, and where we want to be. We may have had some time over the Christmas break to reflect and we may have set resolutions, or goals for the new year. This can be really positive and give us a...
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