The Psychology of Elite Performance w/ Dr. Lenny Wiersma, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, Travis Mash, and Dr. Andy Galpin - Barbell Shrugged #520

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

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🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Lenny Wiersma is a Professor of Sport and Performance Psychology in the Department of Kinesiology at California State University, Fullerton, where he has taught since 2001. He is the Director of the Performance Psychology Lab at CSUF and has conducted research and/or worked with a variety of extreme sport athletes including big-wave surfers, extreme backcountry skiers and snowboarders, ultramarathon runners and cyclists, Crossfit Games athletes, and UFC fighters.

He serves on the advisory board of the Nike Sport Research Lab in Beaverton, Oregon, as well as on the advisory board of XPT Extreme Performance TrainingTM. Dr. Wiersma is currently on the staff of UCLA Men’s and Women’s Water Polo teams as a sport psychology consultant as well as USA Swimming’s National Team, specializing in Open Water.

He serves on the editorial board of The Sport Psychologist, is a former Associate Editor for Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, and was the Co-Director of the Center for the Advancement of Responsible Youth Sport at CSUF from 2001-2014. He received his masters and doctorate degrees in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts and his bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.

In this Episode of Barbell Shrugged:

What can you learn from extreme sports athletes?
How do you get in the zone for optimal performance?
How do you mentally prepare for hard training or competition?
Physiological responses to stress and what to do about it?
How can you use both to get super jacked

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Shrugged family. This week on Barbell Shrug, Dr. Lenny Wearsma comes into the Shrugged family talking about the
0:09.3	Psychology of training and performance what you can do to get stronger between your ears and
0:15.0	with the craziest
0:17.4	Athletes in the world when I say crazy, I'm talking about like the most extreme people jumping off cliffs with little parachutes at
0:22.4	Tastron talking about people that go wing suit
0:25.6	Sky diving whatever that is
0:27.8	The thing the sport where you have like a 73% chance you're just gonna hit a big rock one day at
0:34.6	75 miles an hour wearing a squirrel suit those people why they're so calm
0:39.7	What makes Alex Honnold so insane climbing L. Capitan without a rope attached to him and
0:47.5	What big wave surfers have to do with you
0:51.0	Getting strong lean and athletic performing in the gym the diesel dad is launching next week for all you dads
0:56.7	Then want to get strong lean and athletic without sacrificing family fatherhood and fitness. I'm so fired up
1:02.4	This is the most authentic training program to what I do to what Doug does that we've ever put together together and I'm so excited about it
1:09.6	It's just man. It's so so just us and it makes me so happy because we're dads
1:14.6	We like to get jacked and we're gonna unite all the dads in the world that live by the code of the barbell getting strong lean and athletic
1:22.5	See you guys at the break
1:25.5	Welcome to barbell shrug I'm Anders Varner Doug Larson Dr. Andy Galpin Dr. Lenny weird. There's a lot of doctors on here today
1:33.0	Yeah, so many syllables Dr. Lenny weirdz me you are on episode 266 talking about the science of motivation for all of our
1:40.2	Long-term shrugged listeners if you are new to the show make sure you get back and check out that episode episode 266
1:47.2	Today coming off of our show a doctor John Rady and talking about neuroplasticity in the brain through physical exercise
1:54.5	And movements I wanted to have you on so we could talk a lot about
1:59.2	Kind of the the mental side of things the way that we're able to program our brains through the way that we think and the way that we feel in the emotions
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