Dave Diggle

Brain In The Game Sport Mind Coaching Podcast

Sports EN ↓ 107 episodes

Brain in the Game explores the mental aspect of training and competing at an elite level of sport. We’re all aware of the traditional role of a physical coach – people who work with the bodies of athletes – mind coaching (or mental coaching) focuses on the brain and the cognitive area of an athlete, working with them on their strategies, their structure and their emotional welfare. Brain in the Game is designed for athletes, coaches, parents and crew as we unpack and understand what it takes to thrive as an elite athlete. In each episode we will examine a different facet of sport from the pers...

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Dave Diggle

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007: Visualisation Techniques for Athletes –⁠ Why is visualisation so effective for athletes? 02.01.2013 27:47

Visualisation and why it is so effective for athletes for building replicable Neural Pathways This episode is an eye-opening look into the world of visualisation, and how it can help you attain precision and focus in your performance. Visualisation should be an integral part of every athletes training program. When used correctly, visualisation can have a huge impact on perfecting your skills...

006: Calibrating the Mind –⁠ Building performance structure 20.12.2012 25:20

In the world of neuroscience and cognitive behaviour there are many different ways of measuring the output capacity of our memory, each with their own take on this and unique ideas about what is and isn’t accurate. One thing people who study these behavioural disciplines all agree on is there’s more information coming into our brains than ever before. This increase in incoming information has a ma...

005: Brain Triggers –⁠ Our sporting habits, rituals and behaviour 13.12.2012 20:54

The difference between training to compete and training the way we want to compete. What happens to our brains when it is triggered by an event? Why is it our first action may not be our best action – and how do we correct this? We reveal some really bizarre superstitions some of the world’s top athletes hold on to, and how a professional mind coach would deal with them. We explore how the ha...

004: Values, Beliefs, Motivators –⁠ We are not the same 03.12.2012 46:19

In this episode we ask the question, 'What do you do before you do what you do?' As a coach working with athletes, do you know your athletes and do you know what specific needs they have in order to get the best out of them? We discuss the important questions to ask yourself when you start working with athletes. Understanding athletes beforehand will enable you to get the best results from them by...

003: Building Confidence and Overcoming Fear 22.11.2012 19:49

The majority of athletes would list confidence and fear as the biggest obstacles they come across in their mental game. In this episode we seek to understand our emotional monsters.  Interestingly enough, both confidence and fear are influenced by the same thing: our own imagination. We explore: the most common way we create doubt and how to avoid it through positive feeding of the emotional...

002: Dealing with Performance Mistakes 15.11.2012 22:10

Dealing with Performance Mistakes In this episode we tackle the big question: “What do we do when things go wrong?” Coaches are often heavily invested in the athlete’s outcome; they’ve spent hours, days, weeks, months, even years sometimes, prepping for one event. So we look at what happens when things don’t go according to plan, and the correction process. ·        L...

001: Setting and Achieving Goals 08.11.2012 28:49

Setting and Achieving Goals   Traditionally goal setting has always been in the realm of sport as something that is paramount, but realistically it’s something that we don’t pay enough attention to, we don’t really craft our goals to be successes. In this first episode we look at how we set and achieve a goal. We discuss: how goal setting works on a cognitive and an emotional level the import...