Episodes

  • Dan Abrahams | Train Your Mind To Become A Better Player

    Dan Abrahams | Train Your Mind To Become A Better Player
    Aug 2 2021
    Top players set their sights on a target at the start of a new season and stay on track until they’ve completed it. This sounds simple, but we live in a world that is full of distractions making it hard to focus. Our chat with Dan Abrahams will help you create a clear plan of action ahead of the new campaign so you can take charge of your mindset and achieve your goals.

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    42 mins
  • Asmir Begovic | How To Build Resilience

    Asmir Begovic | How To Build Resilience
    Jul 23 2021
    The life of an elite athlete is stressful. Talent and hard work will get in the game, but it’s resilience that keeps you at the top. Do you have the mental strength to bounce back from setbacks? Can you cope with the criticism and expectation? It’s not about manning up and shutting out your emotions, it’s about understanding your thought process and devising a strategy for dealing with failure. That’s exactly what Asmir Begovic has managed to do across a 16-year career that shows no signs of slowing down.

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    45 mins
  • Chris Ramsey | How To Develop Young Players

    Chris Ramsey | How To Develop Young Players
    Jul 15 2021
    Only 180 of the 1.5 million boys who play organised youth football in England will become a Premier League pro. That’s a success rate of 0.012 per cent. Developing a talented youngster into a competent pro is incredibly difficult, but few coaches have a better record for maximising potential than Chris Ramsey. During this conversation, QPR’s technical director, discusses the mistakes made by mini-Mourinho's, how to prepare an academy player for their first-team debut and the valuable lessons he learned as a community coach.

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    50 mins
  • Paul McVeigh | How To Handle Pressure

    Paul McVeigh | How To Handle Pressure
    Jul 9 2021
    Pressure has the power to overwhelm the most gifted of athletes - rendering a highly skilled performer into a bungling amateur. But there are strategies that can help you combat this crippling force. During this episode, former Premier League footballer turned performance psychologist Paul McVeigh, is going to help you modify your mindset so you can deliver when it matters most.

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    52 mins
  • Glenn Murray | How To Improve Focus

    Glenn Murray | How To Improve Focus
    Jun 11 2021
    Whether you’re a Sunday League clogger or a Champions League winner, you need to master the art of paying attention. This sounds simple, but thanks to the relentless stream of notifications pinging into our phones and the pressure to excel in our careers and our personal lives, it can be hard to focus for 90 minutes. To help you boost your concentration we’ve invited Nottingham Forest striker Glenn Murray onto the podcast to discuss his fantastic career. Glenn made it all the way from the muck nettles of non-league to the scoring charts of the Premier League, via the United Soccer League Championship. It was Glenn’s laser focus that helped him reach the top tier of English football.

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    48 mins
  • How To Handle Hate

    How To Handle Hate
    Mar 25 2021

    During this episode we'll be exploring hate. It’s the emotion that creates and fuels rivalries, produces atmospheres where some professional athletes excel and others deflate like a day-old balloon. In fact, it can either sharpen or destroy focus in any walk of life. You’ll be hearing from elite athletes about how THEY handle hate and we’ll be using their experiences to help you manage hate in your life.


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    Executive Producer: David Hall

    Producer: Rayan Wilson

    Editors: Viraj Bhatia, Sam Jacot and Pete Dorman

    Design: David Brown


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    34 mins