SNR #231: Hugh Gilmore - Applied Sport Psychology Strategies

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 22 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Hugh is currently with the English Institute of Sport working as the Performance Psychologist to the British Weightlifting team. Hugh worked with these lifters in the lead-up to the most recent Olympic Games in Rio 2016.

Hugh has a MSc. in Applied Sport and Exercise Psychology. And is accredited by The Irish Institute of sport, the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES), and the British Psychological Society.

Hugh has also worked with high-level athletes across a number of other sports, including All-Ireland winners, World Champions & Olympians.

In This Episode We Discuss
Misconceptions among athletes as to the role of sport psychology
False consensus bias
Pseudoscience in psychology vs. evidence-based practice
Enhancing athlete confidence
Model of perceived demands, perceived resources and perceived importance
Achieving optimal arousal for performance: how psyched up should you get?
Differences in external factors in competition vs. training
Why being positive when setting goals can actually be a bad thing!

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0:00.0	If you want to take one thing away from me and my understanding of psychology is everything's good, everything's bad.
0:16.0	It's you have to understand where the optimal level is so you want confidence but you
0:21.7	don't want arguments you don't want low confidence you want that to use the term the
0:27.3	Goldilocks zone you've heard the story of Goldilocks it has to be just right and you
0:32.3	have to be able to get that just right amount of it too often we think about things in
0:37.4	oh we just need more confidence you can think about things and oh we just need more confidence.
0:38.7	You can have too much. You know, we just need more planning. You know, you can have too much.
0:43.3	What's the cost or what's the contraindication of whatever it is you're trying to increase? Hello and welcome to episode 231 of Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:06.5	As ever, I am your host, Danny Lennon.
1:09.8	You are very welcome back or you are welcome to the podcast this week.
1:15.4	So I hope you take more value from this week's show and something slightly different from our usual tact of focusing in on nutrition.
1:24.6	But an area that I think most of you listening will have a keen interest in
1:29.0	or at least take something useful away from it, even if it's beyond your normal subject matter
1:36.1	that you tend to listen out for, because I think there's a lot of good information, a lot of gems
1:41.3	that stretch beyond the exact subject matter today.
1:46.1	So on the podcast, I'm going to be talking with Hugh Gilmore, who is a sports psychologist,
1:52.9	currently working as the lead performance psychologist to the British weightlifting team.
1:58.8	So he's working under the umbrella of the English Institute of Sport,
2:02.2	where he has worked with the British weightlifting team
2:06.0	at the most recent Olympic Games in Rio in 2016.
2:10.3	Also has worked with their powerlifting team.
2:13.5	And he's also got experience in various other sports,
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