Train Your Mind with Vanessa Faye Foerster
Your mind is your best performance tool. Train Your Mind is the podcast that teaches endurance athletes how to train their minds like they train their bodies. Certified Life Coach and Mindset Expert, Vanessa Faye Foerster went from middle of the pack finisher to Kona qualifier in one year and now teaches athletes how to build mental endurance to achieve their next level performance. To learn more, head over to www.vanessafayefoerster.com. Follow on Instagram: @vanessafayefoerster
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 98
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
76. Thoughts about your coach
On the podcast today, we're talking about the relationship you have with your coach (aka the thoughts you have about your coach). I used to have a pretty crappy relationship with my coach because of …
75. Session Priming
Ever feel defeated as soon you open your training plan? Or maybe there's that one session that always gets you down and you dread seeing it up? What's happening is session priming. Tune into today's …
74. MVP Episode: Micro Quitting
On the podcast today, I'm bringing back a MVP episode. This episode is consistently shared as an athlete favorite. Micro quitting is a self-sabotaging behavior that shows up from beginners to pros. W…
73. 3 Stages of Belief
Today I'm diving into the 3 stages of belief. Tune in to find out what the three stages are, which one is the most important and questions to consider as you move through the stages on the way to you…
72. Hope IS a performance plan
On the podcast today, I'm sharing my recent learnings from the book 'Hope Rising' by Casey Gwinn and Dr. Chan Hellman. I've always said "hope is not a performance plan." Well, the science of hope cha…
71. Celebrating 30 podcasts in 30 days + what's next
And that concludes the 30 podcasts in 30 days project! In this episode I'm sharing the most popular episode of the month and what's next with the podcast.
70. Lies we tell ourselves
Today I'm sharing the top 5 lies we tell ourselves that keep us from our next level. Some of them might surprise you!
69. "What do you do when you've lost motivation and none of the 'tricks' work?"
I asked for questions and I got some good ones! On the episode today, I'm answering just one of them because it's good enough that it needed it's own episode: "What do you do when you've lost motivat…
68. How to "handle" negative self-talk
On the podcast today, I'm answering the ever popular question: "how do I handle my negative self-talk?" I offer you two ways the might surprise you.
67. The Endurance - Time Paradox
Endurance takes time. But time is not what creates your results. Listen to understand more about the endurance - time paradox and how to make sure "it just takes time" isn't keeping you from stronger…
66. A better question for getting to your next level
Yesterday we talked about negotiable goals and today we're talking about inevitability. If you're spending time trying to decide which new bike to buy, I've got a better question to ask to have agen…
65. Negotiable Goals
Today we're talking about how to know if you're making your goal negotiable and the one decision is takes to change that.
64. 3 side effects of sharing your next level goal
I've shared my next level goal several times in the last month and every time I get some version of the same response: what time do you have to do and how far off are you? But I don't allow this to b…
63. Why now is the best time to start visualizations
On the podcast today, we're talking about why now is the best time for you to start incorporating race visualizations and I offer 5 guidelines to help you get started.
62. FOJO
In this episode, we're talking about FOJO aka a fear of judgement from others and why that's a high price to pay in the process towards your next level performance.
61. My top 10 favorite key session love notes
My key session love notes are popular when I post them on Instagram so today I'm sharing my favorites with you.
60. Connecting the Physiological to Mental - Part 2
We're back for part 2 of connecting the physiological to mental. In todays episode, we close the loop on how addressing your mental and emotional limiters can lead to higher quality training and bet…
59. Connecting the Physiological to Mental - Part 1
The physiological gains needed for next level performance are real, but they are only a part of a complete athlete. On the podcast today, Danny and I talk about a time when he believed his main perfo…
58. When you have an off day
I'm not talking about a rest day! I'm talking about a day when you feel off emotionally and I offer 10 questions to take inventory of your internal landscape.
57. Mental Endurance in the Wild with Danny
In this episode, I'm bringing you something new! I've invited Danny on the podcast to talk about our real world examples of when mental endurance was needed. We both share a recent training session…