MTB Confidence, Motivation, and Mental Skills Training with Dr. Kristin E. Keim
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Kristin E. Keim is a sports psychologist and a member of the US Olympic Committee Sport Psychology and Mental Training Registry. She has helped countless individual athletes and teams achieve their goals using a holistic, strength-based approach to sports psychology. (Click here or see the link below for Dr. Keim's complete bio).
In this interview, we ask Dr. Keim:
- What are some of the areas where athletes like mountain bikers face mental challenges?
- Is it common for athletes to incorporate mental skills training into their preparations?
- Do you have any tips for helping folks get through a tough workout, or even just a really tough part of a ride?
- Is positive visualization an important part of developing a winning mindset?
- What are some things that make it tough to stay motivated?
- Are there any shortcuts to developing confidence? How do we get it back after a crash?
- Is happiness connected to athletic performance?
- Do you get nervous before a race or competition? How do you calm your nerves?
Connect with Dr. Keim and find out about the services she offers through Keim Performance Consulting at keimperformanceconsulting.com. Photo credit: by Jared Harber.
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| 0:39.3 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today my guest is Dr. |
| 0:45.5 | Kristen E. Kime. Dr. Kime is a sports psychologist and a member of the U.S. |
| 0:52.0 | Olympic Committee's Sports Psychology and Mental Training Registry. |
| 0:56.0 | She's helped countless individual athletes and teams achieve their goals using a holistic, |
| 1:01.3 | strength-based approach to sports psychology. Thanks for joining me today. |
| 1:07.4 | Thank you, Jeff, for having me. I'm really excited. Tell us a bit about your background. |
| 1:12.6 | Did you have a lot of experience as an athlete that sort of led you to the field of psychology? |
| 1:18.7 | Yes. |
| 1:20.2 | Which, I mean, I actually think that anything with movement, again, you know, what's the definition of athletics? |
| 1:27.4 | The ultimate athletes, I feel like, are dancers. |
| 1:29.9 | And if anyone has ever seen, you know, professional alvinelie or even New York City Ballet or anything, yeah, that's, especially even the men dancers. |
| 1:41.4 | I mean, that is the epitome of like almost perfection of bodies and |
| 1:45.1 | movement. Yeah, what was that the 80s or the 90s that the football players were doing ballet? |
| 1:51.6 | Oh, well, I went to University of Georgia and the, and we just won the championship, right? |
| 1:56.9 | Yeah, yeah. They take dance classes. Really? So the, oh yeah. |
| 2:04.6 | Well, and you look at, you know, watch the, watch some of those big dudes. |
| 2:10.8 | They are flexible, you know, just like time trialists or mountain bikers need to be flexible. |
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