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. 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. This episode covers: 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:45 ThinkTrainPerform 0:04:00 What is mental health? 0:05:35 Awareness and understanding the triggers 0:08:25 Tools for awareness and introspection - Journaling 0:10:00 Qualities that define mental strength 0:13:50 The dreaded FTP test? How can you deal with anxiety? 0:19:20 How to deal with being overwhelmed by hard workouts? 0:30:00 Dealing with big pre-race jitters. 0:35:30 Managing expections and controling the controllables 0:38:45 Dealing with failures/disappointments - Analysing it and giving it time 0:44:45 Self pity vs Self empathy 0:47:30 How the pandemic situation affected people 0:51:45 How to deal with dips in motivation dips 0:57:35 Tips for working athletes Some Links Below: Working Athlete Community on FB. Link to Anchor Voice messages About the Podcast 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 athletes to coaches. If you think you can benefit from this, please consider subscribing so that you don't miss the weekly episodes in future. Who is a working athlete? Someone working full-time/part-time, entrepreneur or anyone who has to work to make ends meet and doesn't let being busy to stop him/her from pursuing an active lifestyle is a working athlete. I consider stay at home moms/dads who pursue a sport, as working athletes because homemaking is a full-time job. If you like this, share with friends who could be interested. For the visually inclined, a video version of the podcast can be found here: YouTube Other Places you'll find the podcast on: Anchor | RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google podcasts | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | Breaker A bit about myself: I'm Venkat/Venkateswara Rao in my work avatar, working as a Chief Data Analyst in the IT industry in Bangalore. I'm Venky/Bikeyvenky for my friends in the cycling community.

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