Brain Training with Matt Fitzgerald
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2015
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Athlete, coach, nutritionist and writer, Matt Fitzgerald, joins The Nation again to discuss how the brain works in training, racing and athletic performance. He discusses specific training programs that can help you can improve your performance. Get his book, "Brain Training for Runners"
- How is Brain Training different from mental training?
- 2 Feedback loops: collective, objective and subjective
- Periodization
- The 2 walls
- high intensity training during base training
- 4 phases of brain training
- how plyometrics can help your effeciency
- Anticipatory Regulation
Learn more from Matt's new coaching portal at PEAR Sports
Matt's other podcasts with The Nation:
Matt Fitzgerald - The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel
Curing Folks of Diet Cult Brainwashing - Matt Fitzgerald
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| 0:00.0 | Tailwind Nutrition is a favorite partner of us here at Trail |
| 0:07.4 | International. |
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| 0:10.1 | You have a dependable running partner, maybe a dog perhaps, your favorite pair of shorts. |
| 0:15.4 | You're a favorite nutrition product. |
| 0:17.8 | And it's becoming more popular a friend of many runners out there because they're discovering |
| 0:22.7 | it, they're trying it, they're taking the tailwind challenge and finding out that hey, |
| 0:26.7 | this stuff works. |
| 0:27.7 | It's a game changer. |
| 0:28.7 | It is. |
| 0:29.7 | We're about to listen to another game changer, which is a podcast with Matt Fitzgerald on |
| 0:34.2 | training the brain. |
| 0:35.8 | And before we get to that podcast, and we just had the conversation with him, probably |
| 0:40.3 | one of my most favorite topics is just the mental side of our game because so much of it |
| 0:45.7 | is mental. |
| 0:46.7 | What we're told, 90% mental, the other 10% in your head, it really is so much of that. |
| 0:51.4 | And that's what we're going to discover with Matt is, is that our brain is a central |
| 0:54.7 | control. |
| 0:55.7 | And it is in fact, allowing us to either finish or not finish and it really takes |
| 0:59.7 | care of us. |
| 1:00.7 | I've talked about it on another podcast and other venues about a dashboard full of dials |
| 1:06.2 | and levers that as runners, we're constantly moving and changing so that we can finish |
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