ATHLETE'S MINDSET ACADEMY
By Amy Twiggs
ATHLETE'S MINDSET ACADEMYJan 22, 2019
#156 The Power of Words to Believe New Things
Words are so powerful. Especially when you are speaking them to yourself.
Listen now to hear about the power of words, and how to help your athletes eliminate words that are not useful for them!
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#155 How to Have Fun and Believe Something New with Coach Claudia Kretschmer
Coach Claudia has owned and run Gym America for the last 45 years. She shares her thoughts and ideas with us on coaching, especially on how to have fun in the gym. We talk about different ideas for coaching and creating fun. She also shares about Balance Palace, a new board game for beam! https://shopshinecreative.com/shop. Then, we turn the conversation and teach Coach Claudia how to believe something new step by step. This process is the secret to helping your gymnasts overcome fear, performance anxiety and mental blocks. It is one of the foundational tools in our gymnastics mindset training. Join us for this super fun, very educational conversation with one amazing gymnastics coach!
Let's learn how to help your gymnasts master their minds.
Want to learn more?
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#154 Why it's So Hard to Believe Something New (and How to Start)
Your gymnast has tried hard to think positively, to swap a thought, to believe something new. But they just can't seem to get there. On this week's episode we talk about the brain and WHY it is so hard to do. We also help you learn how to begin the process and how to help your gymnast. Beliefs that will help them overcome fear, manage their emotions and be mentally tough are so important for productive practices and confident competitions. Here's how to work on getting them there!
Let's learn how to help your gymnasts master their minds.
Want to learn more?
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#153 You Have to Believe Something New to Achieve Something New
The results that we get start with the things we believe. If you want your gymnasts to have great results, they have to learn how to believe something new. Tune in to learn not only how to swap a thought, but step by step how to believe that new thought for good. Your gymnasts can use this mindset training as they work to overcome fears, performance anxiety about the upcoming season and to become mentally for productive practices and confident competitions.
Let's learn how to help your gymnasts master their minds.
Want to learn more?
Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.
#151 Finding Cue Words that work.
Cue Words can become a short hand code to powerful thoughts and emotions that will fuel your gymnast to perform at her best. Coaches can use this gymnastics mindset training tool to help your gymnasts overcome fear and create confidence in her skills for peak performance. Coach Ali and Coach Stacie talk in detail about how to help your gymnast find the right cue words to create the desired results.
Want to learn more?
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#150 Training your brain with affirmations
Affirmations are a popular tool to use with gymnasts to help them overcome fear and mental blocks, decrease performance anxiety and help in their mindset training.
Used in conjunction with our other mindset tools, they can be very helpful in focusing your gymnasts brain on believing something positive about themselves.
But used incorrectly, and they can deepen the fear or disbelief.
Coach Ali and Coach Stacie talk thought affirmations, when they are helpful and how to use them to help your gymnast in this weeks episode.
Let's learn how to help your gymnasts master their minds.
Want to learn more?
Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.
#149 Visualizing Your Future Self
How can you help your gymnast overcome fear or a mental block with mindset training?
Visualizing their future self is a powerful tool.
It's also a powerful tool for you as a coach or to use with your whole team.
When you tap into the imagination and visualize yourself as the person or the team who has already accomplished their dreams, the brain can begin to use that to help you actually accomplish it.
Gymnastics is a mental sport.
Let's learn how to help your gymnasts master their minds.
Want to learn more?
Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.
#148 Mastering your mind with visualization
Are you wondering, "How do I help my gymnast learn a new skill they are afraid of?" Or "How do I help my gymnast who is injured or out continue to keep their skills up?"
This week we chat about the second and third steps in powerful visualization.
Visualization is such an important tool to use in mindset training to help your athletes become mentally tough, help them deal with performance anxiety, or help them overcome fear.
Here's how to teach your gymnasts visualization that really works and how to use visualization as part of your training assignments.
It is a powerful tool when used correctly.
Want to learn more?
Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.
#147 The Power of imagination in Visualization
Have you ever asked your athletes to try to visualize themselves confidently completing a skill, only to have them see themselves falling or failing again and again? When learning to visualize yourself doing something you don't yet believe you can do, it is important to help remove fear and disbelief. Here are some helpful ways to do that.
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where we create happy, healthy athletes who know how to win.
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Athlete’s Mindset Academy Coaches
#146 Equal Airtime
Equal Airtime: Your brain naturally looks for anything that could be considered a problem. It does this as a protective mechanism. When you notice yourself focusing on negative options, we want to encourage you to spend just as much time opening up to the other side of the story. It’s possible that there is no problem, that everything is going to work for us better than we could imagine, that we might actually stick that routine or win that medal. It’s possible either side could occur. Give yourself time and space to really open up to positive options without condemning the negative ones. If you find your athletes dropping into a lot of negative self-talk, then we can help.
Go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com
where we create happy, healthy athletes who know how to win.
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Athlete’s Mindset Academy Coaches
#145 Interview with Wayne Wright
Interview With Wayne Wright. Today we had the privilege of interviewing Wayne Wright, former San Jose State University Head Coach for the women's gymnastics team. Currently, Wayne works for the 49ers education-community based programs and consults with No Cap Sports.
We discussed some of the fears of coaching in today's culture.
Coaching today becomes a balance of acknowledging the pressure to help a team win, succeed, becoming a coach that doesn't feel that their past will be judged at any given moment with the possibility of losing their job, or wondering if they are meeting the expectations of the parents. Coaching 20 years ago was different than it is today-- and there is a lot to discuss around this topic! We are so grateful Wayne Wright opened up about the nuances of the coaching world today.
If you are a coach who feels confused and hesitant to coach athletes due to all the current situations and "safe sport" regulations, we are here for you. We hear you!
Join our movement to empower coaches with tools that allow you to coach the way you've always wanted to!
Go to: AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to learn more.
#144 Overcoming emotional fears
Behind our physical fears are our emotional fears.
We are afraid of what people are going to think, afraid of what we will feel if our fears come true.
This week we learn about dealing with these emotional fears - understanding where they come from and how to deal with them.
#143 Mastering your fear
Master Your Fear: Today, we focused on fear and why it’s hard to master your fear at times. Here are a few points we discussed to calm that part of your brain down: Your primal brain thinks everything is scary. You need to determine when something truly is unsafe and when it isn't. Speak to your brain in a loving way so it knows it's safe. If you have athletes who don’t know how to manage their fears, then we are here for you! Let us teach you how to help your athletes manage their fears.
Go to: AthletesMindsetAcademy.com
Have an amazing day, Athlete’s Mindset Academy Coaches
#142 Your Relationship With Your Sport
What if you considered your sport like you would a best friend? Sometimes friends are hard to get along with, or they disappoint. But, if someone were to criticize your best friend, you might find yourself becoming defensive and looking for all the reasons your best friend is amazing. Try this with your sport. How could you sport be considered similar to a friend?
If you are looking for ideas to enjoy your sport more, come check out AthletesMindsetAcademy.com.
We are here to help!
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Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches
#141 What Do You Expect Of Others?
Do you ever find yourself wishing others would just be like and do what you want them to do? Why don't others know how they "should" act? Life would just be so much easier if everyone played by our rules. Right?! This would be nice, but we all know this isn't the way life works. So, what "should" you do when others don't follow your rules? Find out our thoughts in today's episode!
If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful mental and emotional health tips.
Have an amazing week,
Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches
#140 Take Responsibility For Your Feelings In A Relationship
Who do you blame for how you feel? If you're like most people, when things are tough, you might choose to point the finger to a parent or athlete. What if we took responsibility for how we feel at any given moment during the day?
If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful mental and emotional health tips.
Have an amazing week, Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches
#139 What Is A Relationship?
What is a relationship? How can you make the relationship on your team better? What can you do to feel comfortable talking to your athletes in a more impactful way? If you want some ideas on how to build a stronger team culture, then we have some great tools to help you this month! Tune in to what you can do to help your team relationships.
If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful mental and emotional health tips.
Have an amazing week,
Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches
#138 Priorities
What do you do with your time? If you were to write down your top 5 priorities, what would they be and why? When you write your priorities down, why did you put them in that order? Think about what you did yesterday? Did your actions align with your priorities? If not, then we have some great ideas and tools to help you with your priorities and time management.
If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful mental and emotional health tips.
Have an amazing week,
Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches
#137 Time Is A Valuable Asset
Do you ever feel like theres just not enough time to get it all done in practice? Most of us can relate. Time seems to "get away" from us and we want to know how to create more time. Today Coach Stacie, Amy and Ali talk about where you, as coaches of gymnasts, might see this showing up and what you can do to help your gymnasts be more productive.
If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful emotional health tips.
have an amazing week!
Your Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches
#136 Why Is Time Management So Hard?
Does it ever feel as though time is just "passing you by" or there just not enough time to fit everything in? Today, Coach Ali and Coach Amy share some ideas about why managing your time feels so hard. Discover how your primary brain actually makes it difficult to manage your time and why.
If you have questions, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com.
We'd love to answer any questions you may have.
-Athlete's Mindset Academy
#135 What Do You Believe About Time?
This month, we are going to focus on your thoughts about time. What you believe about time impacts your daily results. Listen to the tips from Coach Ali and Coach Amy regarding how to use your beliefs about time to serve you better.
For more ideas, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com.
have an amazing week,
Athlete's Mindset Academy
#134 Mental Health and the Olympics
Have you been following the Olympics? Unexpected changed continue to occur and athletes continue to step up to the challenges. In today's episode, Coach Stacie, Ali and Amy discuss some of the mental health needs associated with the results of the Olympics so far. Coach Stacie points out that the body shows what's going on underneath it all. Consider what your body and results might be telling you about your belief systems and emotional health.
Follow our company-- as we diligently continue to open up conversation with athletes about their mental health. Go to: AthletesMindsetAcademy.com for more resources.
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Athlete's Mindset Academy Coaches
#133 Special Edition: Olympics, Mental Health and Our Thoughts On It All
Athlete mental health has skyrocketed into the spotlight this week with Simone pulling back from competition. Coach Ali and coach Stacie chat about the environment of the Olympics from Stacie's experience in 2016, their reactions as events unfolded in the team finals, and thoughts on mental health training in gymnastics.
Tune in for this special edition!
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Athlete's Mindset Academy
#132 What's Your Compelling Reason to Change Your Habit?
Why do you want to make a change? What are you seeking in the long run? What is the compelling reason you will hold on to when everything feels uncomfortable to keep you going? Discomfort is the key to change. If you want to change a habit, then you will want to know why you really want to change. Otherwise, you will quit as soon as something feels tough. We have some great ideas and tools to help you through those tough moments.
If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful emotional health tips.
Have an amazing week,
Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches
#131 Why Your Habit Is Hard To Break
Do you ever feel like breaking a habit is all or nothing? This is just one reason why breaking a habit might feel hard to you. If you miss a day of your goal or mess up in anyway, then you might as well just quit on the goal all together. Most of us can relate. Today Coach Stacie and Coach Ali talk about their experience with breaking habits and how to stay out of "all or nothing" thinking.
If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful emotional health tips.
have an amazing week!
Your Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches
#130 Quick Habit Hack
How many times do you have to do something repeatedly to create a new habit? Answers vary to this question. However, we can give you a quick, efficient tool to use when you're ready to change a habit for good. Join Coach Ali and Coach Amy on this episode to learn more.
Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
#129 Ready to Change A Habit?
Are you ready to change an old habit? Ready to do something different in order to get a more satisfying result in your athletics?
To succeed at your sport, you have to embrace #thedailygrind.
The important but boring kind of actions you do day in and day out. Strength and conditioning. Flexibility. Cardio. Drills.
Eating well. Getting enough sleep. Managing your time.
To do all these things that support and build a strong foundation for your sport, you need to develop habits.
They are the things you do without thinking about it.
the process of stopping a habit you want to leave behind or creating a new habit is changing the thought that is driving it.
Habits usually come from simple thoughts. This feels good. This is just what I do. I always do it this way.
If you are ready for this kind of challenge, then listen to today's episode as Coach Ali and Coach Amy discuss what habits are and how to change them.
Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
#128 How Do You Use The Self-Coaching Model?
Athlete Mindset Training company is committed to developing happy, healthy athletes who know how to win. In this podcast, we teach you how to use a foundational tool to create anything you want in your sports experience. It's simple, yet powerful. Try it. If you have any questions or want personal help with your own self-coaching journey, let us know!
have a beautiful week!
-Athlete's Mindset Academy Coaches
#127 Why Is Self-Coaching So Important?
This month we will be talking about becoming a self-coaching master. The coaches of Athlete's Mindset Academy discusses why It is important to consistently self-coach as a preventative skill to avoid those "stuck" moments that inevitably happen in sports and life. If you are an athlete, sooner or later, you will find that adding emotional management to your daily routine is the greatest way to take care of yourself and expedite your way to success.
If you are ready for some mental and emotional tools that actually work, check us out at
Athlete's Mindset Acadmey.com
We are here to help you feel and look like the amazing athlete you are!!
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Athlete's Mindset Academy Coaches
#126 Interview with the Parents of an Olympic Athlete- Rachel Garcia
This week we have a special interview for you! Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a parent to an Olympian? Christine and Tony Garcia, the parents of Rachel Garcia, talk openly of the struggles and triumphs involved in raising an olympic level athlete.
Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
#125 Have You Ever Wanted To Be A Part Of Something BIG?...Founding Members is available for YOU!
We want to invite you into a very special opportunity that is only available THIS WEEK...
We help athletes who are struggling with the mental and emotional side of gymnastics - and life.
We help coaches learn incredibly effective techniques to coach the mental and emotional aspects of the sport.
We help parents learn how to support their gymnasts and coaches most effectively.
We are experts in training the mind and helping people deal with their emotions.
And we want to help.
So we are working on launching a gymnastics membership for teams and gyms this summer.
We’ve been thinking about creating a community where we can help you and you can help each other.
Where you have ready made curriculum in easy, bite-sized pieces that coaches and gyms can use to develop happy, healthy athletes who know how to win.
As a founding member of our community, we are asking you to help us help the culture of gymnastics to change emotionally and mentally.... which always leads to more successful athletics as a result. Find out what's been going on inside Athlete's Mindset Academy AND how you can be a part the change that we are making in the world of gymnastics TODAY! Will you raise your voice to create happier, healthier gymnasts now....or wait until this opportunity is closed? Are you ready to do something you've never done before.... change the culture of gymnastics for good?
Join the Founding Members by going to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com.
We will see you on the inside!
#124 Healing From Trauma & Abuse
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
As mentioned in last weeks episode, this week, Coach Ali shares with us her past traumatic story about abuse (warning! Sensitive topic). She shows us how to use last weeks tool of separating the facts of a situation from the thoughts about the facts in order to find neutral space and eventually healing and progress. These tools helped Coach Ali move on from her own situation to create the life she desired.
#123 Re-Write Your Story
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week.
This week, Coach Ali & Coach Amy discuss one of their favorite tools that actually work to re-write the story of the past. Try the technique when you are feeling stuck in a past story in order to move forward again.
Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
#122 Connect with Your Future Self
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
#121 Connect with Your Past Self
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
#120 Change Your Story: Separating Fact from Fiction
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
#119 Create Confidence by Having Your Own Back
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
#118 To Compete with Confidence You Have to be Willing to Feel Any Feeling.
This week our coaches talk on the importance of being willing to feel any feeling to compete with confidence.
#117 Compete with Confidence| Special Guest: MyKayla Skinner
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
Coaches Amy and Stacie chat with 2016 Olympic Alternate, NCAA standout and 2021 Olympic hopeful MyKayla Skinner. Listen in as they chat about competing with confidence, what it was like to be an alternate at the Olympic Games and MyKayla's thoughts for the future.
#116 Compete with Confidence - How to Create the Confidence you Need.
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
This week the coaches talk about how to create the confidence you need to win.
#115 Perfectionism and Depression | Special Guest: Dr. Margaret Rutherford
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
Coach Stacie chats with Dr. Margaret Rutherford, author of Perfectly Hidden Depression:
How to break free from the perfectionism that masks your depression. Check out her website at: https://drmargaretrutherford.com/
#114 Dealing with Grief as a Coach | Coach Ali talks with Krista St.-Germain
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.
#113 Dealing with the Grief of the End of Your Athletic Career | Coach Amy talks with Krista, Amy
How to deal with grief at the end of you athletic career.
#112 Dealing with Grief as a High Level Athlete | Coach Stacie talks with Krista St.-Germain, Ally Brugler, and Sunisa Lee
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win.
Coach Stacie talks with NCAA gymnast Ally Brugler, National Team gymnast and World Champion Sunisa Lee and Master Certified Coach Krista St-Germain about grief.
Athletes have had a unique journey with grief this past year and when their careers end. In sports we are often taught not to feel. But learning how to grieve the losses and traumas along the way is of utmost importance to emotional health and is something we need to learn how to deal with well.
Krista is an expert in grief and helps us navigate the idea as well as teaches us some really helpful tools to process the grief. She recommended the app The Tapping Solution
#111 Your Feelings are Your Fuel. 💥 Learn To Create Powerful Fuel.
This month we will be talking about emotions. Feelings are your fuel. It is important to learn how to process those feelings and how to create the feelings that will fuel your dreams.
#110 The Power of Words to Believe New Things
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win.
This week our coaches talk about the power of words.
#109 Believe New Things One Step at A Time
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win.
This week our coaches talk about HOW to actually believe something new . It is a simple process that will help you on your way.
#108 Get Comfortable with A New Belief
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win.
This week coaches Amy, Ryan, and Stacie talk about the importance of getting comfortable with a new belief in order to work towards believing it.
#107 Believe Something New to Achieve Something New
Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win.
This week coaches Ali, Amy, Ryan, and Stacie talk about learning to believe something new. You can't achieve new things with the same old beliefs.