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How Does Breathwork Work for Athletes and High Performance?
Breathwork for Athletes and High Performance. Scientific benefits of breathwork. How does breathwork even work?
What meaning you give to the year of 2020?
“Don’t hate the year that opened your eyes” Yep. The hate comes from the discomfort we have had to go through when adjusting to Covid and the new norms. The constant changes and maybe also fear and worry about what this is and what is going to happen. All this opened...
Athlete identity – cure or curse after sports?
Athlete identity has been an emerging topic lately in Finland, for example ex-figure skater Kiira Korpi wrote about how hard it was for her to hear that "ex" word everywhere after she was done with her professional career. Especially because she still continued figure...
How to achieve goals? Don’t just set them. Crush them!
Hey there gorgeous piece of a human being who wants to get more and be more but might need some goal setting awesomeness to help along the way! How to set better goals for yourself is what you might need..? Or maybe you wish to have more clarity on what your goals and dreams should actually even be and how to achieve goals. Maybe you dream about how to set goals with purpose… If any of this rings true to you, you are in the right place, because the goal for this post is…
What happens to identity when “body fails”?
- u what ? is ,rI am gonna share something that I have never shared. I thought it’s too sad. Then I had a couple discussions last week and I realized the pieces I have written but not published could have exactly the messages that might matter to people, that might...
How to Succeed in a New Environment?
I couldn’t believe how I was performing. “This is my new team! I just want to play well! I want to succeed so much and this is what I do?! I am sure everyone thinks that I am a disappointment! The coaches are for sure already googling other liberos to hire…”
How to Know If You Limit Yourself and How to Solve It?
Think 6-year-old Sally who has been playing on the yard with a ball for an hour and now runs back in with muddy shoes and bouncing the ball with dirty hands, so excited to tell mom the trick that she just learned with the ball! She is gonna be so proud of me! Mommy mommy mommy look what I just did! Mommy unfortunately was already a little stressed coming back from work and now Sally is dirty and spreading the mud all over the house… No more mess she thinks and responds…”
3 Mistakes Athletes Make
Are you consuming more time on thinking how good you can be or how bad you were? Are you spending more time on comparing yourself to others and feeling down because of comparison or can you see others’ success as something empowering to you? Are you using your time trying to find the connection between your mind and body or are you treating your body more or less like a tool to get what you want?
Personality in Sports – Unlock Your Competitiveness
Competitiveness does not have to be loud. You can be silently supercompetitive. Some people think that unless you are vocal about competition, you would not be a competitor. I call that BS. Actions speak louder than words..
Extroverted athletes – leaders and clowns?
You chatter all the way from the locker room to the gym and probably won’t listen or hear more than the first two sentences of what coach said about the first drill and practice because your focus is already in something else like “mmm Margaret has done something different with her hair today, looks good”.
Free Workbook: Build Your Self-confidence
Where does self-confidence come from? Your past experiences? Your ability to know that you handle this moment? That you know you have what conquering this moment takes? So after all, what do you say to yourself in the situation when being tested?
Yes. This work book will help you to create those things in your own life by:
Discovering the expertise and experience you already have and can count on so you don’t need fake your confidence but know you have it
Taking a look at your limiting beliefs so you can remove them
Tips how to handle the pressure moments better so you are free to perform your best in the moment
