Mental Toughness and How It Can Improve Your Running with Dr. Michele Ufer
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Yes You Can!
Leveraging his college experience organizing and leading expedition trips that helped people discover, and push past, what they thought were their limits, Dr. Michele Ufer has written a bestselling book on mental toughness training for runners. He is an internationally sought-after expert in sports and management psychology and a successful ultrarunner. As speaker, coach, and mental trainer, the bestselling author motivates athletes, executives, and other high performers, promoting top performance.
Challenges beyond the marathon distance
As a runner and someone who pushes his own boundaries, he is attracted to challenges beyond the marathon distance, sometimes at great heights. Whether it's a desert, rainforest, Himalayas, or the polar circle, Michele Ufer is at home on the most extreme running tracks. He has repeatedly achieved top 10 ratings in international (extreme) races covering a distance of up to 250km using his training methods. He researched psychological aspects in running, and presented his findings at lectures, scientific congresses, and in magazine articles.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast, the internal image of a movement or if you imagine |
| 0:09.6 | yourself swimming in the pool or cycling a bicycle activates the same muscles, the same nerves, |
| 0:18.0 | than the real movement. |
| 0:20.0 | It's less, but still it's measurable, so it has an impact. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, |
| 0:29.2 | where it's all about learning from the best |
| 0:31.7 | and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie K Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier Coach and Host for the Run to the Top |
| 0:52.2 | Podcast. Dr. Michel Uphra. coach and host for the Run to the Top podcast. |
| 0:53.6 | Dr. Michel Ufa is an ultra-runner author and expert |
| 0:58.2 | in sports psychology. |
| 0:59.8 | His book recently translated into English |
| 1:02.4 | is called Mental Toughness for Runners, published |
| 1:05.1 | by Meyer and Meyer Sport. |
| 1:07.1 | Michelle puts his own mental challenging concepts to personal testing as an ultra-runner who |
| 1:11.9 | has pushed his own limits on four continents. |
| 1:15.7 | From his first ultra, his first race actually, the 250 kilometer Atticama Desert Race to runs in rainforests, polar caps, and even the extreme |
| 1:26.0 | terrain and altitude of the Everest area Himalayas. |
| 1:29.2 | Dr. Michel Uffert's passion is exploring limits, his own and others helping athletes and other |
| 1:36.6 | high achievers perform at their best by reaching extraordinary goals all while |
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