Leaders Performance Institute member Joelie Chisholm has achieved some of her best performances following heavy training sessions and puts it down to her emotional load being low.

“My biggest impact on performance, and therefore recovery, is definitely mental,” she tells the Leaders Performance Podcast of her extracurricular ultrarunning exploits.

The Chair of GB Climbing’s Competition and Performance Group is an avid sportsperson whose experience spans several disciplines and informs her thinking on this ever-important question.

Also on the agenda were:

• The need to be present when competing [5:15];
• Why she feels being in the zone is a precursor to a flow state [27:00];
• Protective factors and stressors in building her resilience [31:45];
• The battle between her ‘inner critic’ and her ‘inner coach’ [30:30].

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