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ATHLETE'S MINDSET ACADEMY
by Amy Twiggs
I am a mindset coach for athletes. If you are a coach, an athlete, or parent and are looking for your athletes to become mentally tough, compete with confidence, AND create a winning mindset... this podcast IS FOR YOU. If you want help applying the mindset training tools I teach, simply go to: athletesmindsetacademy.com. If you are looking for Gymnastics Mindset Academy, check out their new podcast and website at gymnasticsmindsetacademy.com.
Episodes
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#156 The Power of Words to Believe New Things
Words are so powerful. Especially when you are speaking them to yourself. Listen now to hear about the power of words, and how to help your athletes eliminate words that are not useful for them! Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.
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#155 How to Have Fun and Believe Something New with Coach Claudia Kretschmer
Coach Claudia has owned and run Gym America for the last 45 years. She shares her thoughts and ideas with us on coaching, especially on how to have fun in the gym. We talk about different ideas for coaching and creating fun. She also shares about Balance Palace, a new board game for beam!...
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#154 Why it's So Hard to Believe Something New (and How to Start)
Your gymnast has tried hard to think positively, to swap a thought, to believe something new. But they just can't seem to get there. On this week's episode we talk about the brain and WHY it is so hard to do. We also help you learn how to begin the process and how to help your gymnast. Beliefs…
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#153 You Have to Believe Something New to Achieve Something New
The results that we get start with the things we believe. If you want your gymnasts to have great results, they have to learn how to believe something new. Tune in to learn not only how to swap a thought, but step by step how to believe that new thought for good. Your gymnasts can use this…
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#151 Finding Cue Words that work.
Cue Words can become a short hand code to powerful thoughts and emotions that will fuel your gymnast to perform at her best. Coaches can use this gymnastics mindset training tool to help your gymnasts overcome fear and create confidence in her skills for peak performance. Coach Ali and Coach…
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#150 Training your brain with affirmations
Affirmations are a popular tool to use with gymnasts to help them overcome fear and mental blocks, decrease performance anxiety and help in their mindset training. Used in conjunction with our other mindset tools, they can be very helpful in focusing your gymnasts brain on believing something...
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#149 Visualizing Your Future Self
How can you help your gymnast overcome fear or a mental block with mindset training? Visualizing their future self is a powerful tool. It's also a powerful tool for you as a coach or to use with your whole team. When you tap into the imagination and visualize yourself as the person or the team…
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#148 Mastering your mind with visualization
Are you wondering, "How do I help my gymnast learn a new skill they are afraid of?" Or "How do I help my gymnast who is injured or out continue to keep their skills up?" This week we chat about the second and third steps in powerful visualization. Visualization is such an important tool to use in...
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#147 The Power of imagination in Visualization
Have you ever asked your athletes to try to visualize themselves confidently completing a skill, only to have them see themselves falling or failing again and again? When learning to visualize yourself doing something you don't yet believe you can do, it is important to help remove fear and...
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#146 Equal Airtime
Equal Airtime: Your brain naturally looks for anything that could be considered a problem. It does this as a protective mechanism. When you notice yourself focusing on negative options, we want to encourage you to spend just as much time opening up to the other side of the story. It’s possible…
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#145 Interview with Wayne Wright
Interview With Wayne Wright. Today we had the privilege of interviewing Wayne Wright, former San Jose State University Head Coach for the women's gymnastics team. Currently, Wayne works for the 49ers education-community based programs and consults with No Cap Sports. We discussed some of the…
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#144 Overcoming emotional fears
Behind our physical fears are our emotional fears. We are afraid of what people are going to think, afraid of what we will feel if our fears come true. This week we learn about dealing with these emotional fears - understanding where they come from and how to deal with them.
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#143 Mastering your fear
Master Your Fear: Today, we focused on fear and why it’s hard to master your fear at times. Here are a few points we discussed to calm that part of your brain down: Your primal brain thinks everything is scary. You need to determine when something truly is unsafe and when it isn't. Speak to your...
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#142 Your Relationship With Your Sport
What if you considered your sport like you would a best friend? Sometimes friends are hard to get along with, or they disappoint. But, if someone were to criticize your best friend, you might find yourself becoming defensive and looking for all the reasons your best friend is amazing. Try this…
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#141 What Do You Expect Of Others?
Do you ever find yourself wishing others would just be like and do what you want them to do? Why don't others know how they "should" act? Life would just be so much easier if everyone played by our rules. Right?! This would be nice, but we all know this isn't the way life works. So, what "should"...
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#140 Take Responsibility For Your Feelings In A Relationship
Who do you blame for how you feel? If you're like most people, when things are tough, you might choose to point the finger to a parent or athlete. What if we took responsibility for how we feel at any given moment during the day? If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to...
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#139 What Is A Relationship?
What is a relationship? How can you make the relationship on your team better? What can you do to feel comfortable talking to your athletes in a more impactful way? If you want some ideas on how to build a stronger team culture, then we have some great tools to help you this month! Tune in to…
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#138 Priorities
What do you do with your time? If you were to write down your top 5 priorities, what would they be and why? When you write your priorities down, why did you put them in that order? Think about what you did yesterday? Did your actions align with your priorities? If not, then we have some great…
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#137 Time Is A Valuable Asset
Do you ever feel like theres just not enough time to get it all done in practice? Most of us can relate. Time seems to "get away" from us and we want to know how to create more time. Today Coach Stacie, Amy and Ali talk about where you, as coaches of gymnasts, might see this showing up and what…
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#136 Why Is Time Management So Hard?
Does it ever feel as though time is just "passing you by" or there just not enough time to fit everything in? Today, Coach Ali and Coach Amy share some ideas about why managing your time feels so hard. Discover how your primary brain actually makes it difficult to manage your time and why. If you...
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#135 What Do You Believe About Time?
This month, we are going to focus on your thoughts about time. What you believe about time impacts your daily results. Listen to the tips from Coach Ali and Coach Amy regarding how to use your beliefs about time to serve you better. For more ideas, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com. have an…
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#134 Mental Health and the Olympics
Have you been following the Olympics? Unexpected changed continue to occur and athletes continue to step up to the challenges. In today's episode, Coach Stacie, Ali and Amy discuss some of the mental health needs associated with the results of the Olympics so far. Coach Stacie points out that the...
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#133 Special Edition: Olympics, Mental Health and Our Thoughts On It All
Athlete mental health has skyrocketed into the spotlight this week with Simone pulling back from competition. Coach Ali and coach Stacie chat about the environment of the Olympics from Stacie's experience in 2016, their reactions as events unfolded in the team finals, and thoughts on mental…
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#132 What's Your Compelling Reason to Change Your Habit?
Why do you want to make a change? What are you seeking in the long run? What is the compelling reason you will hold on to when everything feels uncomfortable to keep you going? Discomfort is the key to change. If you want to change a habit, then you will want to know why you really want to…
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#131 Why Your Habit Is Hard To Break
Do you ever feel like breaking a habit is all or nothing? This is just one reason why breaking a habit might feel hard to you. If you miss a day of your goal or mess up in anyway, then you might as well just quit on the goal all together. Most of us can relate. Today Coach Stacie and Coach Ali…
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#130 Quick Habit Hack
How many times do you have to do something repeatedly to create a new habit? Answers vary to this question. However, we can give you a quick, efficient tool to use when you're ready to change a habit for good. Join Coach Ali and Coach Amy on this episode to learn more. Check us out at...
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#129 Ready to Change A Habit?
Are you ready to change an old habit? Ready to do something different in order to get a more satisfying result in your athletics? To succeed at your sport, you have to embrace #thedailygrind. The important but boring kind of actions you do day in and day out. Strength and conditioning.…
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#128 How Do You Use The Self-Coaching Model?
Athlete Mindset Training company is committed to developing happy, healthy athletes who know how to win. In this podcast, we teach you how to use a foundational tool to create anything you want in your sports experience. It's simple, yet powerful. Try it. If you have any questions or want…
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#127 Why Is Self-Coaching So Important?
This month we will be talking about becoming a self-coaching master. The coaches of Athlete's Mindset Academy discusses why It is important to consistently self-coach as a preventative skill to avoid those "stuck" moments that inevitably happen in sports and life. If you are an athlete, sooner or...
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#125 Have You Ever Wanted To Be A Part Of Something BIG?...Founding Members is available for YOU!
We want to invite you into a very special opportunity that is only available THIS WEEK... We help athletes who are struggling with the mental and emotional side of gymnastics - and life. We help coaches learn incredibly effective techniques to coach the mental and emotional aspects of the sport.…
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#124 Healing From Trauma & Abuse
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social...
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#123 Re-Write Your Story
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. This week, Coach Ali & Coach Amy discuss one of their favorite tools that actually work to re-write the story of the past. Try the technique when you are feeling stuck in a past story in order to move...
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#122 Connect with Your Future Self
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social...
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#121 Connect with Your Past Self
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social...
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#120 Change Your Story: Separating Fact from Fiction
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social...
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#119 Create Confidence by Having Your Own Back
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social...
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#118 To Compete with Confidence You Have to be Willing to Feel Any Feeling.
This week our coaches talk on the importance of being willing to feel any feeling to compete with confidence.
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#117 Compete with Confidence| Special Guest: MyKayla Skinner
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social...
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#116 Compete with Confidence - How to Create the Confidence you Need.
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social...
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#115 Perfectionism and Depression | Special Guest: Dr. Margaret Rutherford
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social...
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#114 Dealing with Grief as a Coach | Coach Ali talks with Krista St.-Germain
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social...
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#113 Dealing with the Grief of the End of Your Athletic Career | Coach Amy talks with Krista, Amy
How to deal with grief at the end of you athletic career.
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#112 Dealing with Grief as a High Level Athlete | Coach Stacie talks with Krista St.-Germain, Ally Brugler, and Sunisa Lee
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Coach Stacie talks with NCAA gymnast Ally Brugler, National Team...
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#111 Your Feelings are Your Fuel. 💥 Learn To Create Powerful Fuel.
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. This month we will be talking about emotions. Feelings are your...
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#110 The Power of Words to Believe New Things
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. This week our coaches talk about the power of words.
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#109 Believe New Things One Step at A Time
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. This week our coaches talk about HOW to actually believe something...
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#108 Get Comfortable with A New Belief
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. This week coaches Amy, Ryan, and Stacie talk about the importance…
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#107 Believe Something New to Achieve Something New
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. This week coaches Ali, Amy, Ryan, and Stacie talk about learning…
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#106 Failing Your Way to Success
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. This week join coach Ali, Ryan, Amy, and Stacie as they they talk...
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#105 Celebrating Your Way to Success
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. This week join coach Ali, Amy, and Stacie as they they talk about...
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I am a mindset coach for athletes. If you are a coach, an athlete, or parent and are looking for your athletes to become mentally tough, compete with confidence, AND create a winning mindset... this podcast IS FOR YOU. If you want help applying the mindset training tools I teach, simply go to: athletesmindsetacademy.com. If you are looking for Gymnastics Mindset Academy, check out their new podcast and website at gymnasticsmindsetacademy.com.
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