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6 Proven Strategies for Crushing Athletic Performance Anxiety

By Anna Medaris Miller — 2017

Use your race day jitters to fuel, not derail, you.

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Like Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka, I’ve Stepped Away from Competition Because of Performance Anxiety.

Out in the chalk circle, my vision became tunneled, my stomach tied in knots, and I felt like I couldn’t hear anything but my own racing thoughts.

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Amelia Jarecke
2021
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Why Simone Biles Getting ‘the Twisties’ Was So Terrifying and What Recovery Could Look Like

This is clearly not a matter of an athlete struggling with technical aspects of a skill or not being physically prepared. There’s something else at work here.

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Dvora Meyers
2021
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The Yips

What’s behind the condition that every golfer dreads?

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David Owen
2014
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