We feel these when running onto the field, waiting on the starting grid, climbing into the chute. It's your own body releasing adrenaline. Let it do it's thing and your own body is limiting your perfomance. Don't fight it but learn use it to your advantage.
Everyone makes mistakes, but how quickly and completely do you recover? Or does that one mistake stay with you for the whole event?
Athletes have more parts to their life than competition alone. Family, friends, relationships, finances, career, study. All these can take take your focus away from that moment during competition. Learn how to deal with those issues and thoughts properly and keep your head in the game.
You can have the skills of a F1 driver or Professional Bull Rider, but you will not deliver your very best unless your mind is in the right place and you are fully connected with your environment. Some elite level racing drivers even go so far as to say that their performance is more to do with their mental state and approach than their driving skills.
At Cognitive Performance Coaching we will partner with you and help you:
But don’t be surprised when we delve into all matters of your personal life and you as a person; such as your relationships, career, how you balance life with elite-level sport and your personal place in humanity. Just imagine sitting at the start line waiting for the green light but in the back your mind are thoughts like:
Clearly these types of unresolved issues can have a very negative impact on your performance.
We will almost certainly use techniques of mindfulness and meditation to help you become more connected with your mind, body and the competition itself. No singing bowls or whale music, but yes, this stuff works!
At Cognitive Performance Coaching there is no set program or cookie-cutter agenda. We take a holistic and very individual approach to maximise the performance of the competitor in you. If you want to outperform your best, then let’s talk about elite driver mindset coaching or performance mindset coaching for you.
At Cognitive Performance Coaching I provide elite motorsport mindset coaching for race and rally drivers and performance mindset coaching for athletes competing in high-risk sports.
Circuit racing
Rally drivers
Rally co-drivers (navigators)
Motocross
Karting
Off-road racing
Pit crew
Downhill mountain biking
Rodeo
Bull riding
Endurance racing
Equestrian cross-country & eventing
And more ...