Mastering The Mind Game: How To Train & Race At Your Best By Working On Your Mind With Expert Shannon Thompson MAPP, NCCP.

THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST

Dominic Schlueter

Running, Sports

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast is a short 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 every day life. We go through this exploration with the one and only Shannon Thompson MAPP, NCCP.

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 goes deep on the benefits of focusing on mental performance, perspective, expectations, handling pre-race nerves/anxiety, and much more. 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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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Running Effect podcast with Dominic Schleader.
0:07.0	I'm your host Dominic, and if you have not already done so, I would greatly appreciate it if you give us a follow, a five-star review, and share the show or today's episode with a friend.
0:16.8	Today on the podcast is a close friend and who I consider a genius in her field of work.
0:21.6	Her name is Shannon Thompson.
0:23.2	She is a mental performance counselor and has worked with very high clients such as
0:27.2	NAU's cross country and track and field teams all the way up to the professional level
0:31.0	with professional teams such as Northern Arizona elite and a plethora of other top
0:35.9	professional runners in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.
0:38.9	Shannon has an undergraduate degree in psychology and then a master's in applied positive
0:43.4	psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Today's conversation is a deep dive into the
0:47.8	world of mental performance and you're going to walk away from this conversation with practical
0:51.9	tips and tricks on how you can improve your mental
0:54.4	performance and your next workout, race, school test, whatever challenge it might be.
0:59.7	As you guys know, the mind plays such a pivotal role in not only performance on the track,
1:04.5	but also in everyday life and conversation, in school and work, whatever it might be.
1:09.0	So I'm stoked for you guys to listen to today's
1:11.2	episode where we touch on a plethora of subjects relating to mental performance and how you can
1:16.1	work on it yourself. We also discussed this incredible course that Shannon is releasing on mental
1:21.2	training that is upcoming this week or next week. And I would highly recommend you guys check that
1:26.1	out. I've left a link to that in the show notes. And also, Shannon holds these courses quite a bit, and they're very helpful and
1:32.3	practical and can help you work on your mental performance, which ultimately impacts your
1:36.6	performance on and off the track. If you guys want to learn more about those and be up to date
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