Building Mountains: Mental Skills for Ultra
Mental Skills Training for Ultraendurance Athletes
This program begins June 5th 2024 at 7pm Mountain and runs for six-weeks.
It is designed to help you develop the mental tools to not just ‘survive’ but to thrive doing what you love.
To hone and develop ‘Tenacity in Pursuit.’
The first part of the course will focus on motivation. We’ll take a look at what’s calling you and help you define what about this incredible endurance effort has you hooked, and how you can harness that during race day.
This self-knowledge is not only going to open up the door for you to push and explore further but it’s also going to act as a gate keeper so you know when you’re straying too far and standing on the precipice of burnout.
The course is going to teach you how to bring compassion to yourself so when you start to get challenged you’re better able to ride the waves and return to the path stronger and more resilient.
This program will teach you mindfulness skills so you’re better able to stay present and focused on ultra in spite of the rough waves that show up.
You will learn emotional regulation strategies so when the demons come up in the pain cave, or at 2 o’clock in the morning when you just want to crawl into your sleeping bag, you can refocus on what matters most.
You’ll develop and refine self-talk and imagery strategies so you can elevate your performance and be in a better place to achieve your goals.
Finally, we’re going to devleop plans for race day, predict those mental road blocks and prepare strategies to overcome them so you have the best possible outcome come race day.
Your instructor, Neal Palles is a long time therapist, mental performance coach, coach for CTS, accomplished endurance athlete and former instructor for Outward Bound.
Participants in this course are eligible for a 25% discount off of mental performance coaching* as well as an opportunity to particpate in a monthly all group call. These calls will begin in July.
Contact npalles@coloradopsychotherapyandsport.com for more information.
*Mental Performance Coaching only available for US and Canada Residents.