Episode 66: Professor Andy Lane, the world's greatest sports psychologist on mental strategies, automating psychological interventions and how many guitars are enough?

The world's greatest rowing podcast makes a further claim to be regarded as the world's best sporting podcast by returning with yet another world-class practitioner.

 

Honestly, how many have we had now?

 

Hundreds. If not thousands. Hodge. Eric. Sally. Drew. Jack. Jezz. Pete ... the lists are long, the tapestry of episodes and insights vast, colourful and eye-catching.

 

And following on from Professor Andy Jones, the beetroot guy, we're back with Professor Andy Lane.

 

A competitive boxer and athlete who transitioned into sports psychology, Andy has been a leading-edge academic and practitioner for over two decades - a man whose work with athletes, academics, and programmes has identified the mental strategies all athletes develop on their journey through their sporting careers and refined how they can be developed, implemented and used by all of us at any stage.

 

We talk about Andy's own trajectory - his life as a competitive athlete, continued competitive nature, his academic career, work with outlets like the BBC and luminaries like Michael Johnson and James Cracknell, and deep dive into concepts like associate / disassociative training strategies, visualisation, pros and cons of music as a training stimulus, when too much data is too much data, the powers of false positives, the necessity of ownership of process, journey, engagement and outcomes ... and the automation of the sports psychology process.

 

It's basically your one-stop stop for everything you'll ever need to develop mental strength as an intrinsic part of your physical training programme.

 

A fascinating and wide-ranging chat with one of the best in the business? Get some!

 

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