Countermove Reset: The Opposite-Movement Anchor to Break Pressure

When pressure spikes your body tightens and your brain hijacks a motor you’ve practiced a thousand times. In this interview Ryan Hadlock sits down with Dr. Maya Chen, a somatic performance coach and former pro athlete, to teach one counterintuitive, evidence-backed tool: the Countermove Reset. You’ll learn why activating the muscles opposite the ones that tighten under stress creates a rapid proprioceptive interrupt that shuts down rumination and re-enables the motor program you trained in practice. This episode walks athletes through a sport-specific 3–5 second sequence, how to practice it so it becomes automatic, and exactly when to use it during a game. The result: fewer spirals, faster recoveries after mistakes, and more consistent performance when it counts. Practical, immediate, and practice-ready—use it today, see it in minutes, train it into games.