Alex Bridgewater (M.S. in Sports Psychology) returns to the podcast to discuss tools that can help elevate your climbing performance. We talked about finding your values, the dark side of expectations, a framework for working toward goals, how to develop confidence, building awareness, whether climbing is separate from life, the cost of masochism, acceptance, unhooking, mindfulness practice, and much more.
You can work with Alex at innersourceperformancepsychology.com
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Show Notes:
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Nuggets:
(00:00:00) – Intro
(00:01:38) – Graduate school
(00:10:21) – Psychology for climbers
(00:18:54) – Finding your values
(00:28:52) – Expectations
(00:38:27) – WOOP (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan)
(01:07:07) – Manifesting flexibility
(01:16:24) – Confidence
(01:20:37) – Building awareness
(01:32:43) – Is climbing separate from life?
(01:43:32) – What is the cost?
(01:54:37) – We’re not professional athletes
(02:00:36) – Many different selves
(02:08:32) – Acceptance
(02:14:57) – Unhooking
(02:18:38) – Mindfulness practice
(02:35:53) – Alex’s practices
(02:43:06) – Alex’s coaching offerings
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