The Performance Psychcast

Welcome to The Performance Psychcast! Urja Mehta is our guest today on The Performance Psychcast! We talk about the perception and routes in sport psychology from a recent graduate student from Mumbai. Urja works as an intern from a consultancy called Grit and mentions the work that Grit does.  www.arcope.co.uk www.focusperform.co.uk 

Welcome to The Performance Psychcast! Jodine Williams is our guest today on The Performance Psychcast! We explore the psychological impact and support of injury. In this conversation, we talk about the normalisation of emotions whilst going through the injury phase, how best to help athletes cope with an injury and discuss real practical strategies and techniques which athletes and sport psychologists can use!   www.focusperform.co.uk www.arcope.co.uk www.mindadvantage.co.uk  www.instagram.com/mind.advantage/?hl=en-gb 

Welcome to The Performance Psychcast! Dr Eleri Jones is our guest today on The Performance Psychcast! She is a lecturer and researcher in Sport Psychology, at Bangor University. Her interests lie in mechanisms of anxiety and conceptualization of the anxiety response in sport. She also conducts research investigating the psychological determinants of rugby union athletes, disability sport and the impact of multilingualism in sport. We talk to Eleri about her latest research in competitive anxiety, the application side of working with athletes and the supervisory role.  www.focusperform.co.uk www.arcope.co.uk Twitter: @elerijonesPhD eleri.s.jones@bangor.ac.uk 

Welcome to The Performance Psychcast. This week’s guest is Maddie Fry, a former gymnast, who is going to talk to us about the pressure she faced as a young gymnast, and how this affected her performance and wellbeing. Recently, British gymnastics has had a few athletes speak out about the mistreatment they faced as youth athletes, with the Guardian mentioning Beckie and Ellie Downie, Louis Smith, and others. We are staying away from the names of coaches and associations but wanting to shed more light on the gymnast-coach relationship and the cultural issues in gymnastics.   www.arcope.co.uk www.focusperform.co.uk

Welcome to The Performance Psychcast. I’m Greg Parry from Arcope and I’m George Mitchell from FocusPerform. This week’s guest is Lewis Pratten i.e Coach Pratts. Coach Pratts talks to us about his journey to becoming a rugby 7’s coach and a gym owner. He shares with us his thoughts, mindset, and experiences in coaching and as a PT. Coach Pratt is incredibly passionate about personal development and the path to self-mastery. We have made sure to stay in our lanes with regards to our professions and not giving advice that is beyond our expertise.  www.arcope.co.uk www.focusperform.co.uk https://coachpratts.com  https://www.instagram.com/coachpratts/?hl=en 

Welcome to The Performance Psychcast. I’m Greg Parry from Arcope and I’m George Mitchell from FocusPerform. This week’s guest is Jim Boyd from The Pressure Zone, Right Eye, and the Rajasthan Royals. Jim talks to us about the importance of vision in sport, how the quiet eye can be trained as well as his thoughts, beliefs, and experiences in applied sport psychology.  www.arcope.co.uk www.focusperform.co.uk www.thepressurezone.com 

We are really excited this week to welcome Ben Worle from CrossFit Chew Valley. We had a conversation that delved deeper into the mental side of CrossFit which perhaps doesn’t get the attention it deserves.  CrossFit is described as “constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity”. All CrossFit workouts are based on functional movements, and these movements reflect the best aspects of gymnastics, weightlifting, running, rowing, and more! www.focusperform.co.uk www.arcope.co.uk www.crossfitchewvalley.com 

Welcome to our podcast around the mental side of performance, both in sport and business. Your hosts are Greg Parry from Arcope and George Mitchell from FocusPerform. Here we will speak to a variety of guests such as sportspeople, sports psychologists, members of the army, businesspeople, so basically anywhere where psychology can be applied to mental health and performance. We are hoping to shed a light on what it is like to work in performance psychology and how it can be applied to the individual and the real world.  Visit us at www.arcope.co.uk & www.focusperform.co.uk