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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Day 6 - The Calm Before the Gold: Mental Preparation for the Gymnastics All-Around Final | The Game Inside The Games

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

For an Olympian gymnast, a lifetime of preparation leads to a single event – an event that totals just four exhilarating minutes of performance, expression, and competition… an event that will either make or break their wildest dreams. 

On Day 6 of The Game Inside The Games, gold medalist Nastia Liukin and high-performance psychologist Dr. Michael Gervais uncover the intense psychological landscape of one sport’s most iconic events – the Women's All-Around Final in gymnastics. 

They explore the mental strategies and pivotal moments that define an athlete's performance, revealing an unprecedented look into an Olympian’s mind when they step onto the competition floor.

Nastia recounts her gold medal run in vivid detail – from the intensity of warm-ups to her mindset walking down the tunnel and the intricate details of the competition unseen by viewers at home.  

Through Nastia’s experiences and Dr. Mike’s expertise, this conversation illuminates the razor-thin mental edge that separates champions from contenders on one the world’s biggest stages.

With Fire,

The Finding Mastery Team


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0:00.0

Day six from Paris. The women's gymnastics all around is coming up and we have the perfect person here to pull back the curtain on that experience.

0:10.0

Welcome back or welcome to the game Inside the Games on Finding Mastery.

0:14.6

I'm Dr. Michael Jervay by Trade and Training a high performance psychologist.

0:18.8

And I'm Nastie Lucan, Olympic Gold Medalist, and we are here in Paris for the Olympic Games and in this special

0:24.2

series we unlock the psychology of pivotal, often unseen moments that can make or break an athlete's

0:30.8

dream. What's it like to focus a lifetime of experience into one

0:34.8

performance a single moment? What goes on inside the minds of the brightest Olympic

0:39.0

stars while the whole world is watching? Welcome back to Paris and let's dive into The Game Inside the Games.

0:45.6

Welcome back to Paris and The Game Inside the Games presented by Microsoft Co-Pilot.

0:50.0

I'm Olympicle Medalist Nasty Lucan. And I sport and performance psychologist Dr Michael Jervay and together we're bringing you an inside look at the games like never before.

1:00.0

Okay, Nastia, we are coming up and what is probably one of the most popular events at the games,

1:06.4

the women's all around final. It's the event that captures the world's imagination every four years.

1:12.1

Yeah, it really does and you know it all

1:13.9

comes down to years and years of training to just about four minutes. 90 seconds on a

1:19.7

four inch wide bounce. That's just a little bit wider than your cell phone that is

1:24.5

to put it in perspective 90 seconds on their floor exercise five seconds if you're

1:30.4

you know on the slover side on vault in 45 seconds on the uneven bars.

1:35.0

So you go into it knowing that you have to deliver in that exact moment.

1:40.0

You don't get another chance. You don't get another try. don't get another try you know I'm

1:43.8

honestly not sure how it's done and I kind of want to explore that a little bit

1:48.3

more of like how are you able to do that yeah let's let's do that let's do that

1:52.0

let's bring the audience inside that moment and give them a view like they've never had before.

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