Mitchell Smith

Imagine you’re an athlete of the future. It’s your rest day, but you schedule a specialised brain training session that gives you the edge over the competition, without compromising recovery. Or you’re injured, but can’t afford to sit around just waiting to heal – so you train your brain while...

What if I told you that I could influence your exercise performance just by making you read a book or play a computer game? Well, research suggests that I could. In a previous article (http://www.thesportinmind.com/articles/what-limits-endurance-exercise-performance/) I presented some evidence that endurance performance is limited by psychological factors, rather than physiological...

As an Australian, one of the most memorable moments of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games was the final of the women’s eights rowing (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK529UiaFZQ). The Australian team, by no means the favourites, were well-positioned for a podium finish at the half-way point of the 2000-m race. Soon after the half-way...