The Quiet Edge

The Meaning Switch

Same loud body. Different job. Write the sentence before you get to the tunnel.

Stage 4 Athlete Edition Ep. 5: Turning Nerves Into Energy
How to Use This Tool

This is Step 1 only. One sentence. Three events. First-rep log — not the scoreboard.

  1. This week: Pick one sentence, or write yours. Keep it short. Not a pep talk.
  2. Ten minutes before: When the body fires, use the sentence. Do not invent a new one in the tunnel.
  3. After the first rep: Clean, rushed, or flat. That is the data.
  4. Week three: Look at the pattern. Keep the sentence that felt true when the hands were hot.

Brooks, A. W. (2014). Get excited: Reappraising pre-performance anxiety as excitement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 1144–1158.

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1. Your sentence

Try one of these, or write your own.

2. Three events

Clean / rushed / flat is about the first rep, not the result.

# Event What the body did Sentence used First rep
3. After week three

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