99: Christian Thibaudeau: Optimal Peaking, Competing and Coaching Through Neuro-Typing | Sponsored by SimpliFaster

Today’s episode brings back Christian Thibaudeau, speaking further into neuro-typing, particularly on the impact of brain chemistry on athlete training invidiualization and coaching.  Sport psychology is generally under-appreciated, as coaching of the highest order fully appreciates and understands the impact of an athlete’s mental state on competition and important training sessions.  When one knows brain chemistry’s influence, there is less guessing, and the ability to more precisely prepare an athlete for their optimal performance. Coaching is also impacted by neurology, and on today’s episode, coach Thibaudeau goes into how each neuro-type is gifted with particular abilities to coach athletes.   Some athletes are immensely attracted to, or frustrated by, the styles of particular coaches, so knowing potential links or conflicts created by brain chemistry and neuro-typing is a must to get the most out of your own coaching and your athlete’s performance. Finally, this podcast goes full circle, as the same things that create difficulty in responding to the highest competition for athletes also create difficulty in their ability to respond to workouts of a high neural intensity.  Christian digs into the common brain chemistry behind these phenomena, and how our understanding can help us create better programming on the week to week basis, in addition to better competitive strategies. Finally, I recommend listening to my first podcast with Christian, episode #77  if you have not done so already, to get an overview of the neurotypes, since Christian hits the ground running on them in today’s show. If you are interested in becoming certified in Neurotyping, check out my review of Christian’s course HERE. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more.   View more show notes at Just-fly-sports.com/podcast-99-christian-thibaudeau