Our bodies make no differentiation between physical stress, and mental stress....both have an impact on the body and its many systems. Especially with our current global situation, many endurance athletes are going through limitations on their riding ability, as well as the mental challenges of being locked at home for an unknown length of time.
Today we talk with Alan Heary on how mental stress can affect us, as well as a few different tools and skills that we can use to help us come through this unprecedented period in human history, better, stronger, and more resilient.
Alan Heary is a High Performance coach, who specialises in helping individuals and teams perform at the highest possible levels in high impact and high stress environments, in both sport and business. With this degree in Sport Science and Health Alan has worked in the fitness and health industry for over 25 years. Alan has trained Olympic athletes and World champions from a variety of sports. He appears regularly in National and International Press and TV, including being featured in several documentaries.
His passion is cycling, Ultra cycling to be precise. and Alan has taken part in the world's most demanding and hardest cycling race, Race Across America. As a result of this he brought ultra cycling to Ireland, in a big way, by becoming the founder and owner of the Race Around Ireland , an award winning ultra cycling event, which has now been given the accolade of one of the toughest cycling events in the world.
alanheary.com
Cycling and endurance focused website: cyclingpsychology.com
Online course "Going In The Zone": alanhearycourses.com
Ultra event which Alan built, as a result of RAAM: racearoundireland.com
