s4/e28 Smash Your Mental Blocks & Perform Like a Champion with Sports Psychologist Ashley Eckermann, MS, MPM
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Does it sometimes feel like there is an actual barrier preventing you from achieving a goal? In this episode, Coach Elisabeth sits down with sports psychologist/mental performance coach (and, of course, endurance athlete enthusiast) Ashley Eckermann, to explore how our thoughts control our outcomes and WHY we run into these mental blocks!
From cultivating belief in oneself, to visualization exercises, to self-talk, Ashley provides strategies for handling common mental blocks like struggling with pace goals or mid-race doubts that runners often face. and offers practical strategies for overcoming them and continuing to ENJOY your favorite hobby (running!)
GUEST BIO:
Ashley Eckermann is the owner and founder of Maximize the Mind and she goes by a number of titles: sport psychology consultant, performance coach, mental skills coach, mental performance coach, performance psychology expert, sports injury specialist, but ultimately, she teaches athletes to be more competitive by learning strategies to manage their emotions more effectively!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. I'm your host, Coach Elizabeth. When I started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. So now I'm here to answer all your questions about running and running adjacent topics to help you become a better, smarter, more knowledgeable runner. Whether you're brand new or you've been doing this for a while, there's always more |
| 0:22.6 | we can learn about running. |
| 0:23.9 | My guest this week is sports psychologist and performance coach Ashley Eckerman, owner of |
| 0:28.0 | Maximize Your Mind. |
| 0:29.7 | Ashley works with some of the top athletes in the world, everyday athletes like you and me, |
| 0:34.9 | and everyone in between to help them learn to manage their emotions |
| 0:38.4 | and gain a competitive advantage in achieving their goals, whatever those goals might be. |
| 0:44.3 | We all know as runners how important the role the mind plays in our performance. |
| 0:49.8 | And sometimes it can feel like we are quite literally running into a mental block or a barrier |
| 0:54.6 | when we are trying to run a certain pace or trying to run a certain distance or we keep having |
| 0:59.8 | these same thoughts or feelings or emotions that are preventing us from achieving our full potential. |
| 1:05.7 | And so the conversation with Ashley today will hopefully give you some helpful tips and |
| 1:10.4 | guidance into how to overcome |
| 1:13.2 | those mental blocks. Ashley, welcome to the show. I'm excited to have you here. Thank you for |
| 1:18.9 | having me on. So Ashley, go ahead and tell us about yourself, but also answer the all-important |
| 1:24.7 | question. Ashley, how did you become a runner? Okay, so my name is |
| 1:29.2 | Ashley Eckerman. I am going to maximize the mind mental performance coaching in Houston, Texas, |
| 1:34.2 | and I've had a sports like practice for several years, and I grew up a competitive swimmer, |
| 1:42.0 | and I had never run more than the dreaded, like, dry land |
| 1:46.8 | conditioning of like, oh, my God, I have to run a mile. And I'm water-based or most comfortable, |
| 1:52.9 | I guess I should say, in the water. And I had a friend that had had a couple kids. And I didn't run, run. |
| 2:03.2 | I'm using air quotes if you're listening to the podcast right now, but until I was 30. |
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