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How Boxing Can Help You Build Up Your Levels Of Resilience

How Boxing Can Help You Build Up Your Levels Of Resilience Jack Sunderland is an ex-professional boxer and now a trainer, coach and social enterprise founder. He founded the organisation, the Training Cave due to his passion for helping others see positive change. Jack’s passion comes from his youth and the lessons that he learned …

Leadership: How To Mentally Prepare Yourself For Public Speaking

by David Charlton

Leadership: How To Mentally Prepare Yourself For Public Speaking Audrie is a speaking consultant, coach, actress, speaker and founder of her international business, Honestly Speaking. In a career spanning more than thirty years in business, media, theatre, film and television, credits include BBC TV and Radio, ITV, Channel 4 and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She …

Working With Your Subconscious Mind To Achieve Better Results

by David Charlton

Working With Your Subconscious Mind To Achieve Better Results

Brandon Epstein is an entrepreneur and mental performance coach who has empowered thousands of clients throughout the world for nearly two decades with his work in the wellness and performance space. A former college football player, Brandon has cultivated a wellness community with more than one million members. He coaches professional athletes, business owners, and other elite performers in feeling and being their best every day.

Check out Brandon’s Free 7 Day Mental Reset https://www.theowned.industries/7dayreset

In today’s episode we look at working with the subconscious mind to improve self-awareness, overcome self-doubt and reduce your chances of choking when performing. My guest, Mental Performance Coach, Brandon Epstein shares his wisdom and gives you some ideas and strategies to keep moving forwards.

Key Learning Points:

Our subconscious mind can be programmed to help us win or lose.
A lot of people are unconsciously incompetent, they lack self-awareness and don’t live in the present moment.
Self-awareness is crucial to be able to grow and overcome performance plateaus.
Start by asking yourself the question – how does my emotional experience start?
A lot of athletes crave the feeling of confidence when they perform – it is possible to experience this when working with the subconscious.
Self-hypnosis can help you reprogram patterns of behaviour that you repeat.
Understanding your limiting beliefs and changing them is a helpful approach.
By being proactive and using psychological skills training you can give yourself a better chance of thriving under pressure.

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Global Sports Psychologist who is located near Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK and willing to travel Internationally. David also uses online video conferencing software (Zoom, Facetime, WhatsApp) on a regular basis and has clients who he has supported in USA, Canada, South America, UAE, Australian and New Zealand.

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How To Raise Your Levels Of Vitality

by David Charlton

How To Raise Your Levels Of Vitality

David Lindsay is a professional speaker and personal trainer based in Sydney, and has a wealth of experience in coaching, training, and competing as an athlete. He has developed a unique “5 Steps to Improve Vitality” system that has been proven to boost workplace morale, productivity, and ultimately, profitability. David is passionate about sharing this knowledge with others and is eager to bring his message to your workplace.

David’s impressive athletic background includes playing Rugby League up to NSW Cup (formerly Reserve Grade) level, training as a professional arm wrestler, and achieving a Black Belt in Wing Chun, a Purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and competing in several Cage Fights (MMA). Over the last decade, David has studied successful teams and individual athletes, discovering that they all follow a similar structure to his “5 Step System Towards Improved Vitality in the Workplace.”

As a full-time coach and trainer for over 20 years, David has helped transform the bodies, minds, and lives of thousands of people. He has also helped teams to work together to achieve much higher results than anyone expected of them. He brings his experience from both on the paddock and in the Cage, and from the coach’s/trainer’s point of view to achieve optimum results.

David’s speaking engagements have included Grass Roots Development for the ARL (Australian Rugby League) and Staff at NSW Parliament. He wishes to impart the knowledge he has gained from his years of experience to improve your staff’s teamwork and work ethic, and increase their productivity. His approach and philosophy have helped transform normal teams into high-performance teams, and he is eager to help your team snap into action and fire on all cylinders from kick-off to the final whistle.

In episode #171 of the Demystifying Mental Toughness, former Professional Australian Rugby League player and now an inspiring speaker and personal trainer, David Lindsay talks to me about ways you can improve your vitality to improve your chances of success. We also touch on Mental Toughness in a Professional Rugby League as well as discussing the psychological side to martial arts.

Key Learning Points:

When you are smaller than others learning to play to and improve your strengths is important.
“The mental game beats the physical game every day.”
You can control yourself not your opponent, so don’t waste time focusing too much on them.
Mental Toughness in a Rugby League setting is all about your ability to keep moving forwards despite pressures that exist.
A bigger picture mentality without too much emotion is necessary to perform at the peak of your powers.
To psych yourself up, consider energising music or rituals like the All Blacks “Haka.”
Visualisation and self-talk are other useful tools to improve your energy and intensity levels.
Ensuring you look after yourself with adequate rest and recovery is essential to raise your vitality.

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Ep134: David Charlton – Observations: 3 Things That Stop You Achieving Your Goals

EP138: Nick Littlehales – Why do the Mentally Tough see Sleep and Recovery as Important

4 Relevant blogs

Blog: How To Play Well When You Aren’t Feeling Great

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3 Valuable resources

Understanding yourself better – The 4Ts. Timing, Thoughts, Tension and Temperature

Combat Sports Psychology Library

Rugby Psychology Library