#112: Tips for Overcoming Performance Anxiety
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We're taking a few listener questions this week about how I'd coach somebody through performance anxieties that are getting in the way of competing, training, and enjoying the process. We talk about how to make practice more like game day, why Rich Froning loves EMOMs, and what I'd do with an athlete who gets nervous when the weight gets too high.
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| 0:00.0 | Rich Froning figured this out before everybody else. |
| 0:02.5 | Rich Froning invented the E-MOM. |
| 0:06.5 | Definition training. There's no score. |
| 0:09.0 | You are going to do three muscle ups this minute |
| 0:11.8 | and you do three heavy power cleans the next minute. |
| 0:14.2 | And what he's doing is he's putting in the rest to lower |
| 0:18.6 | the super high intensity so he can train to get better. |
| 0:25.0 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control. |
| 0:29.4 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, |
| 0:31.9 | sleep, train, think and connect with each other |
| 0:34.6 | is how we'll optimize our health and happiness. |
| 0:37.6 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible. |
| 0:41.8 | Our mission is to live on the right. |
| 0:44.4 | Always chasing. Never stop. |
| 0:47.6 | Hello, welcome back to another episode of the chasing excellence show. |
| 0:51.7 | As always, I'm here with Ben. How are you, sir? |
| 0:54.0 | Good pressure. It's the chasing excellence show this week. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, I like it. |
| 0:58.0 | Okay, so today we have, I dove back into all of the listener questions we've been getting |
| 1:03.8 | and tried to find a couple that were dealing with a subject |
| 1:07.8 | that I felt like we could take a couple of them and gem them together and have a conversation about it. |
| 1:11.7 | And the one today we're going to do is roughly around the topic with the idea of performance |
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