Our body can be unconsciously wired to perform the way we have trained it to, but hours of hard work can be undone where we are not able to conquer the thoughts and emotions that flood our conscious mind.

Olympic and National swimming coach, Chris Martin, provides insights into how the mind works in elite athletic performance and what lessons we can draw from this to help ourselves think more creatively on a daily basis.

References:

The Last Dance, Netflix Docu-series

The Inner Game of Tennis, W. Timothy Gallwey 

“Endure: Mind Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance”, Alex Hutchinson