How do you handle the pros and cons of adrenaline?

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Matt Bromley · Answer

Adrenaline, adrenaline, Tiffany has pros and cons. I think it goes a long way before I got into the big waves because obviously in the window as a huge adrenaline is going through the reef, but I like to prepare long in advance. I like to have a lot of discipline in my training and I try to mimic the big wave, environments in the swimming pool in my training. I try to visualize as the big waves, the big wipeouts, I put myself in the situation long before it actually happens and there's I like to call this like building a foundation of being prepared and when I have the strong Foundation of Readiness, when the adrenaline hits, I feel like this at lessens the impact and it helps me to still remain calm to think clearly when the pressure is on and make good decisions. So I think Like being prepared and it's a huge part. And then I think also the mental game, when I'm able to, I talk to myself all the time. So I try control the thoughts that are coming into my mind. I try for my mind with statements that are only empowering and encouraging and that also helps a lot with adrenaline.

Brad Hudson · Answer

So really good question, it's not easy to control our adrenaline that much and it is super important. So a couple things is the timing of your caffeine. I do recommend probably run gum so that you can just take it whenever you need it. Depending on the timing, but the Science. Now does look like you wanted a little bit closer to your event rather than further away. But adrenaline I would put under arousal, okay? So everyone has a Certain arousal where they compete best, okay? Like a DJ that dials up or Dow's down. You need to be able to do the same know where you compete. Best keep a log of it. Okay, so science says that. Most people are bringing too much adrenaline and too much intensity to the racing and that's affecting their performance and not enough to their training. So like a DJ that dials up or dials down. We want to learn to do the same. And so what are some things we can do to dial up our adrenaline? Well, caffeine can help. A more aggressive warm up to 400 m. 3K Pace. After our normal warm up trimming. The grouper have someone out there can help raise your arousal. Do mental imagery of a race in order to enhance our adrenaline before training to raise it because the mind doesn't know the difference between real or imagined thoughts. Listen to your favourite pump up music. You can get a little mad about something. You can clap your hands and say something motivating some fast. Quick deep breaths can help. Think we're Fierce animal a volcano or tidal wave. So that's throttling up. What about the opposite? Well, we can have less I mean, we can not do that 403 que pase after our normal warm-up, we can do mental imagery but of a happy place a calm, cool Mountain stream somewhere we can mellow ourselves out a little bit. We can do some slow deep breathing. We can listen to our favorite music. Maybe some classical sauté on piano and some like stretching. So the Oracle of Delphi gives us some pretty good advice. Know thyself and controlling. Your adrenaline is important. It's very important in racing. Being particularly in the marathon that you don't make moves or burn fuel carelessly. So hope that helps

Brent Hayden · Answer

So, how do I handle the pros and cons of adrenaline? So first off we're talking about the parasympathetic system, right? That fight or flight response and adrenaline right, that fight response, that is an essential requirement to high performance competition. So when you're feeling those nerd, when you're feeling that adrenaline, that is a good thing. So it takes time Time to get comfortable feeling it, all right, you got the about the butterflies, in your stomach, you know, the heart's pounding out of the chest, all that stuff. So it takes a while to understand that it is necessary for the competition. So when I feel it, I kind of give myself a bit of a mental pat on the back to kind of thank my body for putting itself in physiological state where I'm going to be able to perform. Now there is a possibility of overstimulation like too much adrenaline, so So just do simple things like, you know, go through your routines, can, you know, focusing on the things that you can control adapting to the things that you can't breathing exercises, listening to, good music, playing a puzzle games on your phone. Somebody that I added to my room Arsenal song recently is the apollinaire. Oh right. That stimulates your parasympathetic response so check this out as well but yeah hope that helps

Charles Austin · Answer

How do you handle the pros and cons of a gentleman? Yeah, that's a. That's a good question there. I'll tell you a story. The year. I set the current American high jump record. I was competing in Zurich Switzerland, and the bar was set at 17 and a half, and on my first two jumps. I was just really excited and fired up and the crowd. I was clapping and making all this noise and my adrenaline was just flowing and I was almost out of control. And so the first two jumps I've missed. I just running too fast and too amped up and couldn't control the speed, couldn't find my rhythm and I would the first two attempts I jump right into the bar. So you know, after I got off the mad, I'm a little frustrating because I knew I was capable of making that height. I had come close to previous year and so Hollis Conway, who was then the the American record holder in the high jump at that point, he pulled me to the side and was like, Hey you know, you need to settle down, you know, you need to relax, you're too amped up and you're letting the crowd just Really get you riled up and your adrenaline is Flowing too high. He's like calm down, you know you need the adrenaline but stay control. Stay in control, you know, find your Rhythm. And so once he told me that went said by myself, relax, calm down. And then once I got on my Approach on my start, Mark the cloud the crowd. Started going crazy again. But this time, I just settled down. Relax took a deep breath and on my final attempt I made it. So you just have to, you know, you need the adrenaline, but you have to stay in control to make it work for you.

Petr Vabrousek · Answer

How do you handle the pros and cons of adrenaline? There are no cons. There are just pros of adrenaline. If you are really nervous and excited before the race starts Let the adrenaline flow, let it pump your body with energy Just take it a little bit easier if there is too much. Don't over pump it But it's only positive if it gets your body ready for the start It can even decrease your need for warm-up. If you really feel that your body is already warming through the adrenaline rush and pumping The blood in your veins is moving. You don't even need to warm up as much. Just make sure to channel all that energy into the race and not into the first hundred meters of the swim. Just let that energy spread over at least the whole amount of swimming and then tap into your other sources and exogenous energy as well through the bike and run

Emma Pallant-Browne · Answer

So I think for me a genuine can use up quite a bit of energy, if you hold it for too long. So yeah, I try and take down the amount of time that I have it by before a race, keeping super calm, keeping relax doing my kind of fire UPS in my workouts rather than mentally. And yeah, just trying to switch off a little bit from watching a movie and I'm not going to focus. You still in the race until I need to be so things like briefing. Making sure that everything is prepared that I know the course that I know everything. Then once that's gone through switching off again until race morning. Then I think again using music something chilled and and talking to people and just again, keeping nice and relaxed before hands are keeping the adrenaline pretty low and then as soon as I'm warmed up and ten minutes ago, I've had my nutrition and that It'll Spike kind of in Sugar that I want going into the swim. That's when I let all that kind of emotion and a general and start to kick in and then try and use that to my advantage for the swim start in the race.

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How do you handle the pros and cons of adrenaline?

Matt Bromley

Matt Bromley

Brad Hudson

Brent Hayden

Charles Austin

Petr Vabrousek

Emma Pallant-Browne