Speed Tribe: Recent Episodes
Nathan Pali
The other day I saw somebody hit the game winning shot. The students rushed the court jumping around the hero and screaming for joy. I’m Dr. Nathan Pali and I’m here to help you get that feeling. Most of the time what is holding you back is not how you are training your body but how you are training your mind. Here at Speed Tribe we take you step by step into how to train your mind. We help you learn how to learn. Empower you to win. Enable you to bounce back from any loss or setback. You ready? Well then ... welcome to the tribe.
Questions: 1. What do you love about this sport?2. What makes you a special runner? (Think physically, personality, leadership, emotion, mental all of it). 3. Why do you believe you can run a faster 5k? 4. What is the ONE thing, more than any other thing that will help you run the fastest second mile of your life next 5k?5. What is the ONE thing, more than any other thing, that will help you run the fastest third mile of your life next 5k? (Must be distinct from number 4).
How do you reprogram your mind so you can run faster and live better? Check out step one.
Remember when you failed? When you chocked? Had a bad race? We’ll, it’s not your fault. Listen up and I’ll tell you why.
Sometimes we really vibe with a coach or boss or teacher, sometimes we don’t. But how can we learn to thrive no matter who our coach is?
Today I’m going to give you one tool to use to relax and get your muscles and mind ready for optimal performance.
Have you ever been surprised in a movie and jumped? I’m going to show you how to harness this to enhance your performance.
In this episode we look at three powerful functions of music and how you can harness them for peak performance.
What do you do when your thoughts start spinning out of control? Tune in and I’ll give you the tools you need to calm the storm
In 1939 Hitler began to take over Europe. By 1940 England was basically standing alone. During this time Winston Churchill gave three interesting speeches that set the tone for the war. What does that have to do with your success tune in and find out.
My friend Bart Thompson (championship coach and sports psychology teacher/mentor) joins us again to explain how we can affect our confidence on the hormonal level.
Today my friend Bart Thompson, a 20 year coach with multiple championships and years of experience teaching mental performance and sports psychology, will teach you how to step up your confidence game
Confidence is a skill that can built. Today we’ll take you through an exercise to remember and build that confidence.
This morning I saw a friend hit a huge ladder drop on a mountain bike flawlessly. How? Tune in for the secret.
Fear and anxiety can ruin our performance, but it is basically impossible to get rid of fear. So, how can we use it to our advantage?
How can we learn best? By taking action. That is how skills are made. But it is also messy and awkward. So, it’s important to focus our energy on the task and build and grow from there.
When we focus too hard on outcomes like winning or not losing etc. this increases anxiety because it is outside of our control. When we focus on tasks within our control our anxiety decreases and our performance improves and the outcomes we desire begin to fall into place.
John Wooden is the most successful college basketball coach of all time. He got there by focusing on the process. The same can happen for you.
We can make our goals more effective by breaking them down like this: 1. Objective 2. Process 3. Task 4. Plan or in other words: 1. What do you want and why? 2. How are you going to get there? 3. How are you going to accomplish those processes? 4. How are you going to implement your plan?
Why are goals or a vision so important? They provide the fuel for us to do hard things. Find the right fuel and your way forward will be supercharged.
What can Diana Nyah’s experience swimming from Cuba to Florida and my friend experience getting stuck in a mud bog in Africa teach us about vision and goals?
As we train our brains to be present and aware we are better able to capitalize on opportunities and win. This episode will start to show you how.
What can breaking the four minute barrier in the mile and ski biking teach us about building skills, becoming more talented and winning?
What does a 61 year old potato farmer and a 544 mile foot race teach us about mental strength?
Teddy Roosevelt accomplished a lot as president but he wasn’t always strong or powerful. What changed? How did he become the amazing man we know from history and what does that teach us for success at sports and life?
A chance to run in the State Championship track meet. Spoiler: it doesn’t go as planned.