• Peak Mindset: Elevate Your Performance In Mountain Sports

  • Feb 1 2024
  • Length: 47 mins
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Peak Mindset: Elevate Your Performance In Mountain Sports

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  • In this episode of the Finding Elevation podcast, host Lisa Thompson discusses the impact of mindfulness and mindset on performance for mountain athletes. She shares how practices like meditation, intention-setting, visualization, and breathwork can transform both climbing ability and overall wellbeing.

    Key Discussion Points

    • The connection between mindset and performance, initially noticed when a seemingly capable climber turned around early on Mt. Rainier due to mental barriers (00:01:00)
    • Research showing meditation physically changes the brain to improve focus and decrease reactivity/fear (00:07:00)
    • Tips for building a meditation practice, starting with just 5 minutes a day (00:21:41)
    • Using mantras and intention-setting to override negative self-talk and reframe challenges (00:29:15)
    • Leveraging visualization to pre-experience difficult sections of a climbing route (00:35:59) 
    • Not ignoring fear but categorizing it and reframing it before moving forward (00:33:24)

    Community and Engagement Links

    Studies:

    • NIH study
    • Purdue study
    • Your brain doesn’t know the difference between what you think and experience 

    Meditation Apps:

    • Calm
    • Headspace
    • Insight timer

    Book:

    The Mindful Athlete by George Mumford
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