Performance Psychology 04 Jun 2019 Comrades Marathon Mental Tip #6: Get your superhero costume on One of my favourite psychology effects is the ‘Batman Effect’. Some very cool researchers were looking at what helped children… Admin
Performance Psychology 03 Jun 2019 Comrades Marathon Mental Tip #5: Turn it into a series of games Joe Simpson was left for dead high up in the Andes Mountains after he fell into a crevasse and his… Admin
Performance Psychology 31 May 2019 Comrades Marathon Mental Tip #4: Have a laugh Have you ever been stressed or anxious, and then a friend comes along and makes you laugh? It’s like magic… Admin
Performance Psychology 30 May 2019 Comrades Marathon Mental Tip #3: Prepare to run 89km This may sound like the silliest Comrades tip you’ve heard; I mean of course you plan to run 89kms, that’s… Admin
Performance Psychology 29 May 2019 Comrades Marathon Mental Tip #2: Feelings are Misleading The end of Comrades is synonymous with drama. The appointed ‘end-gun’ person standing under the finish line, arm raised waiting… Admin
Performance Psychology 28 May 2019 Comrades Marathon Mental Tip #1: Be an optimist (not a positive thinker) Ask anyone that has run 89km’s and they will tell you that getting through those last few kilometres has less… Admin
Performance Psychology 16 May 2019 What is a mental block? HINT: it’s not a block Often, I have been asked to help athletes overcome a mental block, ‘She has a mental block against this one… Admin
Performance Psychology 17 Apr 2018 Gold-Plated Grit vs Real Grit You are at once the quite and the confusion of my heart – wrote Franz Kafka. I think athletes would… Admin
Performance Psychology 06 Apr 2018 How to outsmart fear and be brave ‘What makes Heroic?’ wrote Friedrich Nietzsche. Interesting question. What would your answer be? His was profound in its simplicity: Heroic… Admin
Performance Psychology 15 Feb 2018 The mental trick to increased will-power By now most people have heard about the famous Stanford Marshmallow experiment. It was a piece of research done by… Admin
