How To Unlock Peak Performance & Harness the Power of Your Mind With Mental Performance Expert Shannon Thompson

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast is an exploration into the world of mental performance and simple practical ways in which you can improve it to ultimately improve yourself as a runner and in everyday life. We go through this exploration with the one and only Shannon Thompson, MAPP, NCCP. This conversation particularly centers around how to get the most out of your training and racing through simply mental performance skills that you can put to practice.

Shannon is the mental performance counselor who works closely with NAU, NAZ Elite, UA Dark Sky Distance, and a plethora of top professional runners. As an athlete and a coach, Shannon has always been fascinated by the psychology of well-being and achievement. Her interest regarding the power of the mind to impact an athlete's performance and overall experience drove Shannon to complete an undergraduate degree in psychology, and then a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

In this conversation, Shannon. I am 100% confident that you'll learn new things about mental performance by listening to this episode and be able to implement easy practices into your daily routine that will help you become a better runner and version of yourself.

Through listening to this podcast episode, you'll walk about with practical tools on improving mental performance that you can directly apply today.

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1:08.6	If you're looking to improve your mental performance and find simple practical ways in which you can improve it on a day-to-day basis to impact your training, racing, and life, today's episode is for you.
1:21.8	I have the privilege of sitting down with the one and only Shannon Thompson.
1:25.4	She is a mental performance counselor who works closely with
1:28.1	NAU, NAZ Elite, Under Armored Dark Sky Distance, and a plethora of top professional runners around the
1:33.6	world. Shannon has an undergraduate degree in psychology and then a master's in applied
1:38.0	positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. In today's conversation, Shannon
1:42.3	and I dive into a few topics relating to mental
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