Resilience is what gets you through those hard training sessions and races that just hurt. A lot!
Resilience is not about “Being Tough”. Almost every racer will have a cry during long races.
Resilience is about giving yourself 5 mins to cry and then getting on with the race.
Resilience is built up like an Onion of many layers. These have to be developed and trained over time. There are no shortcuts.
Self Sabotage – It is a natural protective human behaviour to Self Sabotage when things get tough. To race well, we must learn to recognise when the “self sabotage mechanism is limiting us too much”, and find ways to overcome it.
Most people only think about SUP Race Pacing half way through a race as their peers slowly pull away from them. You were not to know that they have been practicing race starts for...
Stimulating our Parasympathetic nervous system calms us down
Framing your thoughts is a powerful way of getting you out of a mid race slump.
Self Talk is: Self-Talk can be Instructional or Motivational Self Talk: Instructional They will be discussed at length in the Skills posts Self Talk: Motivational Mind Training is still hard work but worth it...
You have to change your body if you want to get stronger, more flexible and have amazing endurance.
There are two types of Motivation that are critical to racing success.
Paddling Psychology
There are two areas that you need to perfect for success
1. Training Mindset
2. Racing Mindset
Setting Goals is critical to paddling faster.
Here are some suggestions to get you started.