Training for Mountaineering: The Psychology of Risk and Fear
Uphill Athlete Podcast
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Mental Training Is Just as Important as Physical Training
Athletes really need spend a time focusing on those mental skills to help them overcome obstacles. It's not only just dealing with fear and risk taking but also just being the best athlete that we can be through our mental abilities as well. The way you do that is by training physically because the physical journey is what takes you on the mental journey. This is so core to up your last lead and what we all do in all our sports whether there's snow sports or rock climbing or alpinism or ultra running for this it doesn't matter like adventure racing. We are building our lives around these kinds of heroic journeys and I think we should really all be proud of that absolutely.
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