166. Dr. Amber Shipherd on Building Confidence, Self-Efficacy, and Positive Self-Talk

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Self-efficacy is one of the most important concepts in the world of performance psychology. Most of us understand this idea as "confidence" but it's actually more specific than that. It means:

"Self-efficacy refers to an individual's belief in his or her capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments."

Now you might have a lot of questions:

How can we better prioritize our mental fitness so that we believe in our abilities?
What are the sources of self-efficacy so we can draw from them during training?
How can we use mantras for running to our advantage?
Are there strategies for building confidence training (or self-efficacy training) into our running?

To help us answer these critical questions, I invited Dr. Amber Shipherd onto the podcast.

Dr. Amber Shipherd is an assistant professor and performance psychology program coordinator at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. She's also a certified mental performance consultant and owner of Next Level Mind Consulting.

She is a member of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee Sports Psychology Registry and an Executive Committee Member with the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.

And thankfully for us, she's an expert on self-efficacy!

She joins us on the Strength Running Podcast to discuss the intricacies of confidence:

Why confidence is not nearly as valuable as self-efficacy
Strategies for building self-efficacy while running
Mindset traps that sap confidence and leave you doubting yourself
Best practices for incorporating imagery and personal affirmations in your running

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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.0	Say, go.
0:04.0	This is episode 166 with Professor of Performance Psychology,
0:09.0	owner of Next Level Mind Consulting,
0:11.0	certified mental performance consultant, and member of the U.S. Olympic Committee
0:15.2	Sports Psychology Registry, Dr. Amber Shipherd. Welcome to the Strength Running Podcast. I'm your host Jason Fitzgerald and if you love running and want to improve if you have big goals and
0:34.9	want the resources and inspiration to achieve them then you're in the right place.
0:39.4	I bring you the thought leaders in the running industry, the coaches, psychologists, dieticians, and therapists
0:46.0	who make fast running possible. While you have to do the work, my goal is to show you the most strategic ways
0:52.0	to work smarter and more productively so you can take your running to the next level.
0:57.0	I want you to better understand running, to view knowledge as a competitive advantage, because the more you understand the sport the better decisions
1:04.9	you'll make about your training.
1:07.1	Don't miss our other 165 episodes of this podcast, our video channel at YouTube.com slash strength running, or our home base
1:16.9	strength running.com where you can find all of our coaching and training programs that help you
1:21.8	prevent injuries, run faster, build mental
1:24.8	skills like self-efficacy, which we'll discuss today, or become a stronger, more powerful
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2:01.5	Our guest today is one of the leaders in the industry of performance psychology.
2:05.0	Dr. Amber Shipherd is an assistant professor in psychology program coordinator
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