ZEPP FM 002 - The 25 lessons I've learnt so far
ZEPP FM | Sport psychology for athletes, coaches & future sport psychologists
Release Date: 07/13/2018
ZEPP FM 019 - Squash and death threats from the Taliban with Maria Toorpakai
ZEPP FM | Sport psychology for athletes, coaches & future sport psychologists
In this episode, Maria talks about her story and her experiences as a girl in an extreme patriarchal society, about being oppressed, about receiving death threats and about never giving up. She talks about the mindset she developed on her journey in life in squash and sport, about equality, human rights and her book A different kind of daughter.
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ZEPP FM 018 - Keeping it simple in sport psychology with Lisa Ruebsteck
ZEPP FM | Sport psychology for athletes, coaches & future sport psychologists
In todays's episode, Lisa, a sport psychologist from The Hague in The Netherlands talks not only about the great moments as a sport psychologist, but also shares several situations where she felt that she might have made a mistake, and that taught her some valuable lessons. In addition, we talked about what skills future sport psychologists should learn in order to be really able to work with their clients, and not only focusing on the basic sport psychology skills everyone can learn from books.
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ZEPP FM 017 - Turning off the mind with Nick Symmonds
ZEPP FM | Sport psychology for athletes, coaches & future sport psychologists
Nick Symmonds is a two-time Olympian, with a record of 7 NCAA titles, 9 U.S. titles, a silver medal at the World Championships and a personal best of 3:59.68 for One Mile.
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ZEPP FM 016 - Holistic athlete development in eSports with Fabian Broich
ZEPP FM | Sport psychology for athletes, coaches & future sport psychologists
In this episode, Fabian gives great insights into the lives of eSports athletes, how they train, how they live and how he tries to improve not only their level of performance through the application of several methods from sport psychology, but also their mental and physical well-being through new diets, more physical activity and fresh air. Fabian is doing a remarkable job in Copenhagen, helping Origen and his athletes to dominate League of Legends in 2019.
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ZEPP FM 015 – Learn from the past and get ready for the future
ZEPP FM | Sport psychology for athletes, coaches & future sport psychologists
With this solo episode today I am sharing one of the strategies with you, which I use for myself and which I apply with athletes and other clients when it’s all about defining new goals for the future. I’m taking you through the complete process of reflecting on the past, identifying lessons learned from the last year or the last season, define new goals for the future as well as strategies for the times when life gets difficult and you might lose your goals out of sight.
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ZEPP FM 014 - One toe at a time with Kevin Rempel
ZEPP FM | Sport psychology for athletes, coaches & future sport psychologists
Kevin Rempel is a 2014 Paralympic Bronze medalist, author of the book ‘Still Standing: When You Have Every Reason to Give Up, Keep Going’, and founder of the Sledge Hockey Experience. In this episode, Kevin talks about his experiences after his accident, his mental health problems and suicidal thoughts, how he took responsibility and ownership of his life and his situation, bad recommendations he heard in the hospital, and what gratitude means to him today.
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ZEPP FM 013 – My personal top 5 books of 2018
ZEPP FM | Sport psychology for athletes, coaches & future sport psychologists
Last year was the first year when I decided to choose the top books I read that year – and I wanted to continue this in 2018 as well. Thus, in this episode I’m reviewing the what I consider the five best books I read in 2018 and which I recommend to many of the athletes, coaches, students and clients I’m working with! The books I recommend are The obstacle is the way (3:27), Quiet (15:44), Mindset (25:04), Wherever you go, there you are (36:48), and The daily Stoic (44:43).
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ZEPP FM 012 - Sport psychology in eSports with Ismael Pedraza
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Ismael Pedraza is still one of the very few sport psychologists working in eSports. He soon realized how important the mental side of sport is, leading him to specialize in sport psychology. Although he never played video games himself, he identified a huge demand of mental preparation in eSports. In this episode we talk about his experiences in eSports, how he entered eSports as a sport psychologist, and how he thinks athletes, teams and coaches in eSports can benefit from sport psychology.
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ZEPP FM 011 - Coaching athletes to high performance
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Only very recently I was invited to speak at the 8thEuropean Pole Vault and High Jump Conference in front of coaches and athletes about a topic that is truly important to me: coaching athletes. While preparing this presentation, I always had a statement by John Amaechi in mind, that illustrates why I think it’s so important to reflect about how we work with athletes.
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ZEPP FM 010 - Big Jumps and little steps with Matthias “Hauni” Haunholder
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Hauni is a professional freerider and adventurer. He competed on the Freeride World Tour between 2008 and 2011, finishing regularly among the Top 5 athletes and he started going on expeditions in 2008. For example, he went to Onekotan – a hostile and remote island south of Kamchatka – to climb and ride a volcano. …and if you want to know how Hauni deals with standing on a 50cm wide ridge atop of a mountain and staying calm and relaxed at all times, this episode is definitely for you.
info_outlineAt the end of every semester, at the end of most workshops and classes, and at the end of each individual coaching session I ask my students, clients, coaches etc. what they have learnt over the last X days, hours, minutes. From my experience this question is great for helping them so briefly reflect about everything they are taking away from today. A couple of weeks ago, I was challenged in a similar way by one of my students.
After asking my students what they learnt while coaching a real client over the past weeks, this student asked me: “Christian – I think we learnt a lot, and I also learnt a lot from what my class mates shared today. Now I am wondering what it is that you’ve learnt over the past years while working as a sport psychologist?” Wow! I’ve never been asked that question before, and it was tremendously helpful to think about this question.
Obviously I regularly reflect on what I do with my students, athletes and coaches, and if it works well, or what I could improve, what I should omit. But I’ve never asked myself what lessons I’ve learnt over all these years that I’m actively involved in elite sports – as an athlete, coach, researcher or sport psychologist. I shared all of the things I think I’ve learnt during one of my classes, and I think it might also be interesting for you as well. I’m here to help you learn and benefit from my experiences and this is why I am sharing my top 25 lessons I’ve learnt in the past. Some things are directly related to working in elite sports. However, I’ll also be sharing what I’ve come to understand so far about life in general.