The Essential Performance Mindset for Motorsport

We will explore your core needs and goals. This is the foundation which guides all your motorsport activities, and your life. We will also discuss how your brain can make you faster and better, or hinder your performance. This a possibly the most demanding session and requires you to really dig deep inside yourself.

Now we start setting you up to be able to push yourself out of your comfort zone and into the learning zone, but then holding it there. It's about maintaining your performance at the point of challenge but not beyond. Then feedback - performing at that level is so much better when you have feedback which you can take into the next event.

In this session you will really learn how to be super-aware of the information your body and your senses are giving you. More awareness of those messages means you can respond faster. We will also start planning your preparation for a race or rally, how you prepare your body and mind in the weeks prior to an event.

This session will focus on you being mentally ready at the start line. Did you know that out internal narrative is about 10 times faster than we speak, and over 75% of that is negative! Today you will learn to control your self-talk and make it work for you. In addition we will talk about those pre-race nerves, nausea, sweaty hands, shallow breathing - what's good and bad about adrenaline and how you can bring it under your control to use it positively.

In this final session we will bring it all together and have a review, or expansion, of any topics, issues or techniques you wish. Then it is into planning your mental preparedness for competition and prioritising your next steps to ensure you can take your learnings into your next competition.

You will have access to the Cognitive Performance Coaching online app for worksheets, references and exercises to keep you thinking between sessions. You can use the app in a web browser, or run the app on your phone or tablet device. All your responses, inputs and notes will be confidential between you and me, just the same as for our coaching sessions. You will also find worksheets you can save and use into the future.