Author Archive

Runner’s World

In the lead-up to London, I explored the mental preparation required for optimum race performance. My friend and clubmate, performance psychologist Stuart Holliday, recommended...
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Daily Telegraph

While the research confirms the link between endorphins and runner's high, it also shows that athletes experience the high in different ways. Some feel...
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Breathe Magazine

Performance coach and psychologist Stuart Holliday nods when he hears that cycling acolytes reach for words like meditative when describing what it it is...
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Breathe Magazine

Keep on running by Jim Butler (2017) Ask a random selection of friends and acquaintances why they run and the replies are both instructive...
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Breathe Magazine

On Swimming – by Jim Butler (2017) Listen to people evangelise about swimming and you could – could – be forgiven for thinking they...
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