S5 EP17: The 5 Skills Of Mental Toughness
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Is mental toughness a trait that you’re just born with, or can you develop it? And if you can develop and strengthen it, how do you do it? Today’s guest is a mental performance coach and owner of Headstrong Consulting, a sports psychology company that focuses on performance enhancement through mental skills training. She’s worked with a wide variety of athletes, coaches, and teams encompassing all skill levels. Listen in to hear what Nicole has to say about how her techniques apply to life, how mental matters relate to overall success and the 5 overall skills of mental toughness.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- How Nicole’s techniques can be used for any level athlete or even non-athletically
- Whether mental toughness is a learned or inherent skill
- How the mental game matters to overall success
- The 5 cardinal skills of mental toughness
- Acknowledging and labeling emotions
- The five senses exercise
- What happens when visualization goes wrong
- Giving yourself grace
- What self-talk does for you
- Exercises that could start you off in the right direction
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| 0:00.0 | you start with a foundation. |
| 0:01.3 | You've got to start with something and then you can build on top of that. |
| 0:04.6 | And so those five cardinal skills, the first one in the book, it's called relaxation and |
| 0:09.2 | activation. |
| 0:09.7 | But I've kind of changed my terminology of that a little bit since I published the book. |
| 0:14.3 | And I really call it emotional flexibility now. |
| 0:17.9 | So the idea is, yeah, like we all have emotions. It's not getting rid of emotions is not |
| 0:24.2 | the goal. It's understanding and utilizing your emotions in a positive way is the goal. |
| 0:34.4 | The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, |
| 0:42.3 | how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:46.3 | We are an army of hardworking women, |
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| 0:53.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:03.3 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:07.5 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:12.2 | Hello everyone and welcome back to the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm Kelsey and I'm Rachel. |
| 1:19.2 | So nice to have you guys. |
| 1:21.0 | Today is an incredibly amazing guest. |
| 1:24.6 | We have the B-O- Endall on successful, mind, successful, thinking, successful |
| 1:33.9 | visualization. We have the key right here. She is with us today. She is Dr. Nicole Detling, |
| 1:42.0 | and she's a mental performance coach. |
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