Hypnotherapy for Running: Back in Marathon Training

Hypnotherapy for Running: Back in marathon training.

After a tough year personally, I’m very pleased to be back in training for my next marathon in the autumn. It feels like an age since I completed my last ultra marathon back in May last year so I’m super pleased to be building up the mileage again. This next one will be part of my training to get back into the ultras later this year and into next year.

There’s a wealth of research supporting how exercise can help support your mental health. Certainly I feel better after a run and it helps me to get out and take some time to process my own thinking. Yet there are still many psychological aspects required to support your running or other exercise.

As with all sports, there is always a psychological element to running. There are the thoughts you have, helpful or otherwise, before you run, as you run and then afterwards when you think back. Some thoughts before a run may seek to derail you from even getting your trainers on. There are those negative thoughts that creep in during a run, especially when you are tired, that seem to encourage you to stop or that negatively focus on your performance and ability. And there can be those thoughts where you are self critical and tell yourself you aren’t good enough or where you negatively compare yourself to others and worry what they think about you.

Before training and competition, there is plenty of time and scope for your thoughts to limit you and hold you back. Or instead, you can use your mindset to allow you to build and to run to the best of your capability.

Running Mindset and Performance  

Whether you are an aspiring runner, a seasoned runner or you just want to improve your running performance in some way, these articles can give you ideas to help you to improve your running performance, boost your belief in your own running ability and to just enjoy your running a whole lot more:

Help to find and maintain your running motivation: Rediscover and Find Your Running Motivation

Enhance your running speed work with this psychological approach: Run Faster By Unleashing Your Inner Cheetah

Improve your running performance and run better: Using Your Hypnotic Hero To Improve Running Performance

Refine your pre run strategies and routines building upon the research in this article: Strategies In The Hour Before Running

If a previous running experience is still impacting upon you, and impairing your running performance, then use this scientific method to move past it: Getting Over A Perceived Running Failure

For help reducing running anxiety: Reducing Running Anxiety To Help Your Running Performance

And for focus and motivation to achieve your running goals then take a look here: Achieve Your Running Goal – Running Therapy & Psychology

Increase your running performance by drawing upon some interesting psychological research: Running Psychology: Increase Running Performance By Picking The Pink

And if you have low confidence and low self-esteem around your running then have a read here: Runners Therapy in Ely And Newmarket: Using Your Mind To Boost Your Confidence and Self-Esteem

I’ve also written about hypnotherapy for running in this article: Hypnosis For Running: Marathon Running Mindset

A whole bunch of ideas and strategies are contained in these articles so I hope you find plenty to support your running performance and progress. And you may have also taken a look at my running hypnosis downloads for help with achieving your running goals, running quickly and running strongly: Running Hypnosis Downloads

Combined with your physical training, your mental performance is what helps you to boost your confidence and enjoy running well. Your training and motivation improves and your mindset before and during a race becomes robust and focused. Research shows that your belief in your own running capability massively influences your performance and how well you run so it is always important to invest in your psychological skills.

Marathon Mindset

After some time out, it’s always a challenge to get back into training and getting the mileage up. It also has to fit in around work, life and everything else! I’m so looking forward to just taking part in an organised event (and the Ely marathon is always well organised) and completing the distance. I’ll be taking my time so there is no pressure. And it’s always nice to have a lovely medal to add to the collection at the end of the challenge.

I’ll be sure to  let you know how it goes and what comes next on my own running journey. And in the meantime I wish you happy running!

To your running success, 

Dan Regan

Hypnotherapy for Running in Ely & Newmarket

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