or we might work on goals around improving their skill of visualization and being able to use that in a more deliberate way as they get back.

That Treflon Soe 118. Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of That Traathlon show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host, Michael Michael and on today's episode

you'll hear yet another repeat guest. We've had quite a few of them recently. This time it is

sports psychologist and mental skills coach Carrie Cheedle who was on in episode 97 to discuss mental skills in triathlon.

But as we touched upon briefly then, one of her specialties is helping athletes that are

struggling with injury on the mental and emotional side of things.

So as promised, she's back to talk about this specific topic.

To hear more about Carrie, her bio, her rapid fire questions, and all of that that you usually

hear on the first episode that a guest is on, go back and listen to episode 97,

scientific triathlon.com forward slash tts97. But for now, let's go straight into the

interview after thanking our sponsors, precision hydration that make electrolyte products for

optimal performance and no more cramps. In their recently published annual cramping survey results,

which they published under the name are athletes winning the war on cramp. They have some

great interesting stats that I mentioned once before, but I'm going to mention them again for new

listeners.

And that is that 27% of athletes suffer from cramp often as opposed to just sometimes or

rarely. And that's one in every four athletes suffer from cramps often. That's insane really. Men suffer more than women and athletes

that are 35 years or older suffer more often than those that are younger. And they split

those age groups up into smaller groups. It's not just two groups with one that is 35 up and

one that's 35 down, but basically after 35,

there are pretty small differences between the groups and the same for under 35, or small enough

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