Who likes being a sweaty mess, anyway?
I used to tell myself.
Field day was especially competitive.
It felt mundane, and I grew tired.
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Fiona Shaw is a sports psychologist based in the United Kingdom.
Whats the point of me being here?
Fiona Shaw is a sports psychologist based in the United Kingdom.
Id confused my dislike of peoples competitiveness with a dislike for sport itself.
A schema is a cognitive framework that helps us organize and interpret information.
We have schemas about everything we experience, and these ways of sorting information shape our world views.
To me, successful exercise meant running and running fast.
Whether youre an amateur or a professional athlete, we are all susceptible to roadblocks in our sporting journey.
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