Jay Barrett is a mental skills coach working with top athletes and corporate leaders. Today Jay talks about how we can equip ourselves with the mental skills necessary to deal with a changing schedule--whether it is in racing, training, or life. With races opening up in NZ, we discuss the pros/cons of losing sight of goals and how to save ourselves...from ourselves!
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58 | Mental Skills for Endurance Sports with Jay Barrett: Skill Mastery vs Performance Focus
From the Performance Advantage blog · Matt Miller · 2020-11-17
Jay Barrett is the second returning guest of the show, and for good reason, as he brings a wealth of sport psychology knowledge. He is a mental skills coach working with top athletes and corporate leaders. Today Jay talks about how we can equip ourselves with the mental skills necessary to deal with a changing schedule--whether it is in racing, training, or life.
Jay explores the three key, interrelated areas of sports psychology: orientation, motivators and mindset. We then explain how these factors can be applied to some common scenarios athletes find themselves in and how to best react to the Covid-19 pandemic as an athlete.
"When you're lacking confidence in your fitness, adopting a growth mindset will help you more than having a fixed mindset. There are always positive take-aways from any event."
Three Factors:
As an athlete, we can adopt either the mastery orientation or the performance orientation. Mastery orientation is about being focused on developing a skill and the satisfaction this brings, whereas performance orientation is about being focused on the outcome or result.