One climbing skill pro’s like Jonas Vingegaard have is the ability to control the thoughts in their mind to be only thoughts that serve them in the moment.
He feels pain, pressure, and has the urge to question himself just like we do when we are on hard climbs or during hard moments.
But what he does to overcome this, you can do the same. I call it “one way communication.”
The mind can only process one thought at a time. One way communication is when you are only SENDING thoughts to your body that are either TELLING it what to do or giving it positive feedback.
You do this instead asking your body how it feels around the effort. Once the effort starts, you are only telling it what to do. Before or after the ride or race or even effort is when to ASK the body how it is or how you feel. That one-way communication from the brain to the body can be something like: “I’m in, I’m doing this, I’m strong, I’m going all the way to the end.
But once you start, you have already had that conversation with the body, it cleared you for take off, and now it is all about using your mind like a pilot to navigate your effort the best you can.
Use this pro way of controlling your mind to perform better and grow faster from your efforts. You will climb stronger and you will unlock the next level.