The Empowered Performance for Curlers Podcast

In today’s episode I am joined by Sofia Mabergs who shares snippets from her journey to the top of women’s curling with Team Hasselborg.

We touch on the importance of each athlete playing to their strengths, setting goals and enjoying your time on the ice.

Fia shares her learnings around practice, sweeping and training specifically to improve curling performance.

Love this episode, check these out:

• Episode 18: Let your knees go past your toes
• Episode 55: Should you ‘toe out’ for more balance?
• Episode 74: Elements of a curling specific offseason

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Today’s episode features English researcher and curler Jotham Sugden. We talk about his mission with his website www.leancurling.com centring around curling research and sweep science.

We answer a couple questions such as:

• How can an athlete and a coach determine what information is good?
• How to combine experience and research with the human athlete in front you?
• What matters more, experience, education or research?

We also touch a bit on sweeping science, sweep testing and gripper vs slide sweeping

Some other great episodes to check out:

• Episode 48: Sassy hips and energy leaks
• Episode 65: 5 reasons you aren’t a better brusher
• Episode 55: Should I 'toe out' while curling?

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In this episode I answer questions such as:

• Best workout for improving stability and power for peel weight
• Should I pull back in the curling delivery?
• What workouts should I do if I have a knee injury?

This months case study gives tips for if your inner thigh or outer hip is influencing your ability to get into a comfortable and accurate delivery position

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Some other great episodes to check out:

• Episode 05: It's all in the hips
• Episode 48: Sassy hips and energy leaks
• Episode 55: 'toe out'?

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In today’s episode I am joined once again by Mental Performance Consultant Emily Riley. She walks us through the fundamentals of mental performance training, so that you have the basic skills to work on finding your best as a person, performer, teammate and a team. Emily has found many people know what they struggle with, but don’t know how to go about increasing their confidence, managing their emotions and being a great communicator. This summer she has a 4-month off ice mental performance program that walks you through each of the fundamentals. She gives us the coles notes version of what you will focus on in each month and some basic leading questions for you to get started

If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like these:

• Episode 27: Communication is about connection and collaboration with Alena Luciani
• Episode 52: Working on your mental game with Emily Riley
• Episode 58: Laziness is a habit, but rest is a priority Emily Riley

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In today’s episode I am joined by Nina Walker, a performance nutritionist who oversees the nutrition support for British Curling. The bulk of this episode outlines the key elements of a well-fueled curler, and introduces you to the concept of a Performance Plate. Nina recommends focusing on your nutrition year-round; using the off ice season to practise timing of meals around training, practices and games.

If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like these:

• Episode 06: Basic nutrition for curlers
• Episode 07: Mark Nichols on all things training, nutrition & curling camps
• Episode 49: Limbo time and types of rest

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