Follow-Up: Alex Bridgewater — 3 Sports Psychology Skills That Will Transform Your Climbing

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4.2 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Alex Bridgewater (M.S. in Sports Psychology) is back again to share three new sports psychology skills that have the potential to change your climbing forever. We covered how to practice these skills in your day-to-day life, as well as how to put them into practice in your climbing, and much more. Become a Patron to get access to the full episode and support the podcast. *The full version is 1:28:39. patreon.com/thenuggetclimbing

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast.
0:04.1	I've got a very valuable episode for you today.
0:07.5	Alex Bridgewater is back on to share three sports psychology skills that you can practice in your day-to-day life
0:13.7	that have the potential to transform your climbing.
0:17.4	For those of you who missed my recent episode with Alex, I recommend checking that out
0:21.5	before listening to this follow-up. That was episode 276. I got a lot of great feedback on that episode.
0:29.6	I found it super valuable personally. We ran out of time in that one, and Alex and I decided to
0:35.0	record again to offer you guys a few more actionable,
0:38.7	tangible psychology skills you can practice and use. This is technically a patron only episode,
0:46.1	but I wanted to share part of it with you guys to listen to for free. So in this free teaser today,
0:51.9	you'll hear Alex give an overview of the three skills that he
0:56.1	covers in this episode as well as the entire first skill, which is called values-based work.
1:03.3	If you want to listen to the full podcast, that is available right now on Patreon.
1:07.9	I put a link in the episode description if you want to sign up. And in the meantime,
1:12.4	please enjoy Alex Bridgewater.
1:29.9	Yeah, so last time we talked a lot about whoop.
1:31.3	Yeah.
1:33.9	That was like the one that we double clicked on and spent a lot of time on.
1:43.0	But we wanted to get back together and just share a few more actionable skills that people can use in practice.
1:47.9	Totally. We talked a lot about whoop which is really great as a goal setting framework but we also talked a bit about mindfulness practices I think like
1:54.5	towards the end which was really good I think what's challenging is a lot of, in terms of like psychological skill development,
2:03.6	from my perspective in the way that I practice with people, a lot of this is like metaphor-based
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