The Coach Amy and Coach Liz Show
Promoting a healthy and positive experience for endurance athletes.
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The Coach Amy and Coach Liz Show

Created with endurance athletes in mind

Created with endurance athletes in mind. Coaches Amy and Liz have a combined thirty years of coaching and seven decades of competing in endurance sports. They cover topics relevant to athletes at various levels of participation: those training for a personal challenge to those competing for an age group placement or race qualification.

 

Improving Mental Strength to Address Doubt with Endurance Sport Training and Racing

Ten year-old Amy with her first 10-speed bike.

What is this episode about?

Liz hosted a clinic with an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist aimed to help her athlete's develop skills to improve mental strength around training and racing.  IFS is a type of therapy that - despite how it sounds - is not about your family of origin.  Rather, it's about the "family" of voices or thoughts in our head - the running narrative we all have (whether we realize it or not) in our head.  In IFS these "thoughts" are called "parts" - we each have many parts!  Things such as "you're not good enough", "you don't deserve this", or, as coach Amy shares with us in this podcast, "you must be perfect".  

IFS helps us bring these parts (thoughts) into our awareness and learn how to work with them to improve how we feel and function in training, racing, and life.  In today's podcast, Amy walks us through her experience at the IFS Clinic and what she learned about her perfectionist part!

Further Reading: No Bad Parts by Dick Schwartz

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