Brain In The Game Sport Mind Coaching Podcast
Brain in the Game explores the mental aspect of training and competing at an elite level of sport.
We’re all aware of the traditional role of a physical coach – people who work with the bodies of athletes – mind coaching (or mental coaching) focuses on the brain and the cognitive area of an athlete, working with them on their strategies, their structure and their emotional welfare.
Brain in the Game is designed for athletes, coaches, parents and crew as we unpack and understand what it takes to thrive as an elite athlete.
In each episode we will examine a different facet of sport from the perspective of the mind, covering interviews with some of the top athletes on the circuit and asking them what’s working for them now and what they’re looking at doing in the future.
We talk to coaches and gain a better understanding of the changing face of professional coaching.
We also delve into biomechanics and understand the different dynamics of the integration of those in professional sport.
Some of the techniques discussed will be time-tested and others will be cutting-edge. Brain In The Game provides a practical insight to the mental 'mind-field' of elite sport and demonstrates how a strong mental programme can make all the difference to an athlete’s results.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 103
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
022: Understanding Mental Imagery in Sport – Seeing isn't always believing
Is what you see, really what you see... or what you think you see?
In this episode of Brain in the Game we explore how we can embed better commands into our neurology in a way to guarantee better per…
021: Athletes and Confidence – Becoming a confident athlete
In this episode we seek to understand what makes an athlete confident, how to identify it and how to own it.
We also look at different ways of sustaining your confidence.
When you see an athlete that…
020: Your Sport – Finding that lost performance
Not all performances are equal
After reaching a milestone or having a stellar season, many athletes fear losing skills or losing the ability to perform at their peak.
We often see an outstanding perf…
019: Preparation and Performance – Don't fear the grey blobs
In this episode we talk preparation and performance strategy.
We combat the competitor's influence over your performance.
We introduce little grey blobs into your arsenal - giving you more control o…
018: The 3D Coach – A complete how-to process
Just when you thought you knew how to process information, in comes the 3D Coach – Check it out and add measurable depth to your current coaching programme.
Download our 3D Coach template here and s…
017: Selling isn't Selling, if it's Solving – A coach's view
In this episode of Brain in the Game we take a look at just how we change the way we, as coaches, view our role and take a closer look at some of the skills we need in order to thrive at the top of o…
016: Knowing and Doing – What is the difference
In this ever increasing accessibility to knowledge through the open portal that is the web, we have more information at our fingertips today about advanced neuroscience than ever before, with more to…
015: Athletes Need Balance – and why ON isn't always ON!
In this episode of Brain in the Game episode #15, we look at how we create realistic sustainability and longevity in our athlete's career.
Teaching them how to turn on and off to be either the studen…
014: Getting Results – The patterns and triggers of a successful performance
So you're not getting the results you were looking for as an athlete, a coach or even in life. And maybe you know you can achieve much, much more but not sure exactly how to get started...
It’s a com…
013: Visualisation – The 5 most common mistakes made by athletes and coaches
In this episode we seek to understand why this most important coaching and performing tool isn’t utilised to its full potential and what are the most common mistakes made.
We know in order to be a ch…
012: Moving Athletes from Amateur to Professional Thinking – How to build the team to do it
Unpacking the steps to take to traverse from amateur athlete, to professional athlete thinking.
We look at the specific steps an athlete can to follow in order to create the right internal and extern…
011.2: Top 10 Questions Asked by Elite Athletes & Coaches the World Over – Part B
Clarification allows us to better understand and apply our interpretations
So having an opportunity to ask key questions, gain specificity and identify relevance is an important aspect of effective l…
011.1: Top 10 Questions Asked by Elite Athletes & Coaches the World Over – Part A
A lot of emphasis is traditionally placed on the physical aspect of coaching athletes as coaches are taught how to identify, prepare and manage an athletes physical and technical needs.
However what …
010: Anchoring – The neurological triggering of specifically designed behaviours
Anchoring is one of those skills innate to us all. To create an anchor builds a cognitive link between our behaviours, our patterns, our emotions and our actions through associations and neurological…
009: A Lesson in Mental Toughness
A lot of emphasis is placed on the mental toughness of athletes these days, so in this episode we explore what it takes for an athlete to push through when others would fold.
Every athlete gets impac…
008: Understanding Momentum – How to craft it, manage it, maintain it
We explore that fickle thing called momentum and why it is so important to understand in order to stay on the sporting trajectory we have planned for our career.
When something arises that is unfores…
007: Visualisation Techniques for Athletes – Why is visualisation so effective for athletes?
Visualisation and why it is so effective for athletes for building replicable Neural Pathways
This episode is an eye-opening look into the world of visualisation, and how it can help you attain preci…
006: Calibrating the Mind – Building performance structure
In the world of neuroscience and cognitive behaviour there are many different ways of measuring the output capacity of our memory, each with their own take on this and unique ideas about what is and …
005: Brain Triggers – Our sporting habits, rituals and behaviour
The difference between training to compete and training the way we want to compete.
What happens to our brains when it is triggered by an event?
Why is it our first action may not be our best action …
004: Values, Beliefs, Motivators – We are not the same
In this episode we ask the question, 'What do you do before you do what you do?'
As a coach working with athletes, do you know your athletes and do you know what specific needs they have in order to …