Category: psychology

College MENTAL prep for meets

Caroline Caponi | JR | William & Mary:

… focus on having fun and rely on my training to take care of the rest.

I talk and joke around with my teammates and always listen to the same pump-up playlist. Before I compete each event, I do one mental set in my head and take a big, deep breath that helps me calm my meet nerves. …

Skyler Memmel | SR | Central Michigan University:

“The night before a meet, I always do mental imagery of my routines and imagine myself in the arena I’ll be competing in.

The day of the meet, I love getting hyped up to music and doing makeup and hair with all my teammates and setting the positive energy.

Before warm-ups I go to the beam and listen to the same songs while I do a mental set/dance-through next to the beam.

… I always at least do one beam routine on the floor before I go and a mental set right before I go.”

Click through for more – Division I Gymnasts Share Their Secret To Mental Preparation Before Meets

90-year-old John Carter

New Years inspiration.

I often link to extreme sport videos by devinsupertramp.

This time they flew out to Trail B.C. to follow John Carter.

He challenges any other person his age to match his feats.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

John’s not planning to slow down until at least age-100. 🙂

meet Chandler King

10-years-old. Level 7. She trains at Simone’s Gym.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Great profile. But age-10 is too young to start talking Olympics. I assume that’s a talking point pushed by Kick-Ass Kids, the publisher.

New Year’s Resolution = Work / Life balance

At a recent Canadian course career coaches were reflecting whether or not they were workaholics.

Many were.

Several resolved to find a better balance in future.

Click PLAY or watch Prince Ea’s philosophy on YouTube.

Abby Milliet’s 5th year

Click PLAY or watch her story on Twitter.

Sam Oldham’s YouTube channel

If you can’t handle another REALITY TV Gymnastics vlog, check Sam Oldham.

This is REAL training, not fun and games.

“Pain … wasn’t a pretty session at all … grinding through it …”

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. Sam Lindley is doing the video editing.

I’m subscribed.

fearless girl

Fearless Girl is a bronze sculpture by Kristen Visbal … 

… meant to “send a message” about workplace gender diversity and encourage companies to recruit women to their boards. …

After a year of staring down Wall Street’s “Charging Bull” in New York City, the “Fearless Girl” is moving.

The defiant statute is moving just a few blocks away — and will now be permanently placed across the street from the New York Stock Exchange …

Time

I liked her original location better. Challenging the bull.

NEW YORK, USA – MARCH 29: The “Fearless Girl” statue, a four-foot statue of a young girl, defiantly looks up the iconic Wall Street “Charging Bull” sculpture in New York City, United States on March 29, 2017. “Fearless Girl” statue was installed in front of the bronze “Charging Bull” for International Women’s Day earlier this month to draw attention to the gender pay gap and lack of gender diversity on corporate boards in the financial sector.
(Photo by Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

There’s a fearless girl now in Oslo, too.

Update – T notes that State Street Corporation, the firm that commissioned the popular “Fearless Girl” statue, “agreed to pay $5 million, mostly to settle claims that it discriminated against 305 top female employees by paying them less than men in the same positions.”

Karma.