#31 - Mental Strength, Dealing with Failures and Dips in Motivation, Controlling the Controllable and more with A Sports Psychologist, A Runner and A Cyclist, Keerthana Swamintahan!

<p>Keerthana Swaminathan is a psychology graduate from Women's Christian College in Chennai who specialized in Sports and Exercise psychology from Loughborough University in the UK. She helps a lot of young athletes from various sports with their mental health and mental strength so that they can perform at their best in their sport. She herself is a runner and a cyclist.</p> <p>In this episode she shares Think.Train.Perform philosophy and how athletes can work with their mental health and mental strength to do well at their sport and life.</p> <p>This episode covers:</p> <p>0:00:00 &nbsp;Intro</p> <p>0:02:45 &nbsp;ThinkTrainPerform</p> <p>0:04:00 &nbsp;What is mental health?</p> <p>0:05:35 &nbsp;Awareness and understanding the triggers</p> <p>0:08:25 &nbsp;Tools for awareness and introspection - Journaling</p> <p>0:10:00 &nbsp;Qualities that define mental strength</p> <p>0:13:50 &nbsp;The dreaded FTP test? How can you deal with anxiety?</p> <p>0:19:20 &nbsp;How to deal with being overwhelmed by hard workouts?</p> <p>0:30:00 &nbsp;Dealing with big pre-race jitters.</p> <p>0:35:30 &nbsp;Managing expections and controling the controllables</p> <p>0:38:45 &nbsp;Dealing with failures/disappointments - Analysing it and giving it time</p> <p>0:44:45 &nbsp;Self pity vs Self empathy</p> <p>0:47:30 &nbsp;How the pandemic situation affected people</p> <p>0:51:45 &nbsp;How to deal with dips in motivation dips</p> <p>0:57:35 &nbsp;Tips for working athletes</p> <p><strong>Some Links Below:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/334744737743027/"><strong>Working Athlete Community</strong></a>&nbsp;on FB.</p> <p><a href="https://anchor.fm/bikeyvenky/message"><strong>Link to Anchor Voice messages</strong></a></p> <p>About the Podcast</p> <p>The working athlete podcast is a podcast with and for working athletes from all walks of life and various sports. The goal is to provide inspiration, training tips, mental hacks, time management and life-style advice through conversations with some of the best in sport, from