Performance psychology for climbers: AMA session with Hazel and Angus.

About this episode

Hazel and Angus discuss performance psychology in climbing, addressing listener questions on topics like flow, anxiety, and mindset.

Hazel and Angus sit down with a cup of tea to answer some of our listeners' questions around performance psychology. We discuss topics like flow, performance anxiety, stress and mindset. If you enjoyed this conversation, Strong Mind is about to re-launch the Performance Hacks course, where Hazel, Angus and their team will take you through a journey to learn more about performance psychology and how it can work for you. If you want to secure yourself a place on Performance Hacks, then sign up here to our waiting list as our courses usually sell out fast. If you’d like help working on your mindset check out our free mindset workbook and guided reflection. Click here Sign-up to our “Thought of the week” here ! Blog post by Hazel about trying hard. Click here 00:01:51 - Can performance anxiety be completely removed from climbing? 00:05:35 - Is it beneficial to momentarily step away from climbing to better work on our mindset? 00:08:45 - How can we access flow state on demand? 00:19:52 - How often does Hazel climb in a Flow state? 00:21:36 - How can we set goals and simultaneously have no expectations? 00:28:26 - How can we try hard when allostatic load is high? 00:35:36 - How can…

People in this episode

Host: Strong Mind

Guests: Hazel, Angus

Topics covered

• performance psychology
• climbing
• flow state
• performance anxiety
• mindset
• goal setting

Keywords

• performance psychology
• climbing
• flow state
• performance anxiety
• mindset
• goal setting
• stress management

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Performance Hacks course

Books & works: mindset workbook, guided reflection, Thought of the week, Blog post by Hazel about trying hard

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