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Triathlon Mental Training Tip 4

How To Give Yourself A Burst Of Energy!
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Pain and lack of energy are probably the two toughest hurdles to overcome for a triathlete, which I am sure you already know - however, one thing that is not well known is that you can have some influence over these. Yes, this is really possible, and it is not difficult, it just takes practice (like anything!).

You see, your subconscious mind has access to an entire drug store of natural chemicals which reside in your body, which it controls via your powerful immune system. For instance, it can easily control your pain levels by releasing the natural painkiller morphine into your system, if instructed to do so! This is often what happens when an accident victim loses a limb - the immune system rushes morphine to the area and the victim often will not feel a thing at the time of the accident.

Yes, this also happens to be the very same painkiller routinely used in hospitals for major accident victims, and it is created inside your own body at the command of your own subconscious. And in the area of energy, your body can releases natural adrenalin into the bloodstream to give yourself an added boost of energy when instructed by the subconscious.

This means that you have the power to control the amount of pain your body feels, plus also influence the amount of energy you have available during your race. This can be done by using a particular visualization technique which can be used:

(a) during your regular daily visualization, and then
(b) actually during the heat of your triathlon.

But how do you do this? OK, let me give a quick crash-course tip that will help you with this.

First of all - something I probably haven't mentioned yet is that your subconscious interprets energy to be glowing light - and this fact can be used to our great advantage. The fabulous part about this is that this technique can work equally well on pain as it does with supplying additional energy.

The key however is to use this method during your regular daily visualization so that your mind becomes thoroughly used to using this technique - and once this becomes a new program within your subconscious, then you can also begin to access this program by triggering it during your races as well.

So you regularly visualize that your legs and body are filled with a vibrant glowing light-energy which radiates from them during your triathlon - the more often you do this, the sooner your subconscious will ensure you are supplied this energy during your triathlons.

This 'glowing' imagery is used both during your proper daily visualization session (with eyes closed), and then also while in the heat of competition (where eyes are most certainly allowed to be open!), and I recommend using both methods if you can. This technique works very well when used this way.

So while you are practicing this technique regularly in your daily visualization, you also practice using it in your training sessions, and eventually you will be ready to bring it into your actual triathlon itself.

During your triathlon, you may choose to use this technique from the beginning of the race, or otherwise just bring it in at a particular time when you happen to need additional pain management or are needing a boost of energy, or both.

This is done purely and simply by imagining that your body is glowing with vibrant light. This plugs you back in to the existing program you have already put into your subconscious through your daily visualizations. You may choose to use this method for just 5-10 seconds at a time, or you may even choose to sustain it for the entirety of the triathlon if you wish, the choice is yours.

So always remember that you have the power to control the amounts of pain and energy you experience. Practice this method until you get results - you will find it's worth it!

"The Mind controls the body, and the Mind is Unlimited"

The best of success, Craig Townsend

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