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Unlock your true potential as a dressage athlete. This podcast covers topics on Stability, Suppleness, Stamina, & Mindset. All to help you improve your connection with your horse, and become the best rider you can be. Join us!

Dressage Rider Training Nicola Smith

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Unlock your true potential as a dressage athlete. This podcast covers topics on Stability, Suppleness, Stamina, & Mindset. All to help you improve your connection with your horse, and become the best rider you can be. Join us!

    026 – Your Mind Is Your Secret Weapon

    026 – Your Mind Is Your Secret Weapon

    We can enter a competition and worry about whose in our class, what the judges will give us, where we will place, what our horses will do. We can worry about all these things we have no control over and let our nerves get the better of us. Then we go to trot down a centre line and can't even remember if we turn left or right! We have been so wrapped up in things outside of our control that we have lost control on the things we can control.

    Before I started working on my mindset I had no tools, no tactics, no weapons to combat a vulnerable and scattered mind. Over time though I have now learnt how to improve my mindset and I have become obsessed with how our minds influence our performance and everyday life.

    Read the full written version of this episode here – Your Mind Is Your Secret Weapon

    Tune in here or where ever your favourite source is at youtube, itunes, podbean, stitcher or spotify. My aim is to bring you an episode a week, so if you have any thing you would like me to discuss please do let me know.

    I look forward to bringing you what I can and helping you improve your health and wellbeing as a rider, so you can enjoy it even more.

    Want more on Mindset? Check out these articles and resources here

     

    How To Create Calmness In Any Situation

    Dressage Competition Nerves And How To Perform At Your Best

    10 Principles Of Mindset

    How You Can Do Anything By Changing Your Mindset

    Simple Reminders To Achieve A Successful Rider Mindset

     

    025 – How To Stay Calm In Any Situation

    025 – How To Stay Calm In Any Situation

    "Negative emotions are just signals, they're just triggers, they're letting you know that you are now focused on something outside your control."

    In order to be able to create more calm within different situations you face, it's important to realise that there is very little inside of your control and you want to make sure that you're not pouring energy into things that you can't control.

    When it comes to horses, they are unpredictable and if you pushing your comfort zone and out-competing there are a lot of elements outside of your control. So before you spiral into on overwhelmed state where anxiety kicks in and you are running on adrenaline. Take a moment and realise there's no sense in trying to control the who is in your class because you can't. There's no sense in trying to control what the judges will give you, because you can't. There's no sense in trying to control the weather because you can't. There is no sense worrying what so in so is saying on the side line, because you can't control that. So just let those things happen and instead focus on what you can control.

    Read the full written version of this episode here – How To Stay Calm In Any Situation

    Tune in here or where ever your favourite source is at youtube, itunes, podbean, stitcher or spotify. My aim is to bring you an episode a week, so if you have any thing you would like me to discuss please do let me know.

    I look forward to bringing you what I can and helping you improve your health and wellbeing as a rider, so you can enjoy it even more.

    Want more on dressage wellness? Check out these articles and resources here

    How You Can Do Anything By Changing Your Mindset

    Simple Reminders To Achieve A Successful Rider Mindset

    Why Living In Your Comfort Zone Is Stopping You From Reaching Your Potential

    Changing Habits And Mastering Routine

    024 – How To Build Confidence

    024 – How To Build Confidence

    Whether you’re at a competition or just training your horse at home our confidence can hold us back. In this episode I share tips on how you can improve your confidence easily, with simple steps you can apply to each and every ride.

    Read the written version of this episode here - How To Build Your Riding Confidence

    Tune in here or where ever your favourite source is at youtube, itunes, podbean, stitcher or spotify. My aim is to bring you an episode a week, so if you have any thing you would like me to discuss please do let me know.

    I look forward to bringing you what I can and helping you improve your health and wellbeing as a rider, so you can enjoy it even more.

    Want more on dressage wellness? Check out these articles and resources here

    How You Can Do Anything By Changing Your Mindset

    Simple Reminders To Achieve A Successful Rider Mindset

    Why Living In Your Comfort Zone Is Stopping You From Reaching Your Potential

    Changing Habits And Mastering Routine

    023 – Adjusting Goal Posts To Suit You

    023 – Adjusting Goal Posts To Suit You

    As a rider its important that we set goals, but equally important is that those goals are realistic and appropriate to you as a rider and most importantly appropriate to your horse. Every rider has different abilities, history and skill level, just as every horse.

    Read the written version of this article here - Adjusting goal posts to suit you.

    Tune in here or where ever your favourite source is at youtube, itunes, podbean, stitcher or spotify. My aim is to bring you an episode a week, so if you have any thing you would like me to discuss please do let me know.

    I look forward to bringing you what I can and helping you improve your health and wellbeing as a rider, so you can enjoy it even more.

    Want more on dressage wellness? Check out these articles and resources here

    How You Can Do Anything By Changing Your Mindset

    Simple Reminders To Achieve A Successful Rider Mindset

    Why Living In Your Comfort Zone Is Stopping You From Reaching Your Potential

    Changing Habits And Mastering Routine

    022 – How To Avoid Quitting

    022 – How To Avoid Quitting

    No one likes quitting or giving up on their goals and dreams in life, but so often I see people just settling and not willing to step outside their comfort zone. You see in order to achieve your goals it requires you to stretch yourself a little. Stepping outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself a little. You see too often people quit because they let their fears win. However, everything you dream of is usually on the other side of those fears and facing them is what helps you achieve your goals.

    Read the written version of this in my article I wrote here - How to avoid quitting

    Tune in here or where ever your favourite source is at youtube, itunes, podbean, stitcher or spotify. My aim is to bring you an episode a week, so if you have any thing you would like me to discuss please do let me know.

    I look forward to bringing you what I can and helping you improve your health and wellbeing as a rider, so you can enjoy it even more.

    Want more on dressage wellness? Check out these articles and resources here

    How You Can Do Anything By Changing Your Mindset

    Simple Reminders To Achieve A Successful Rider Mindset

    Why Living In Your Comfort Zone Is Stopping You From Reaching Your Potential

    Changing Habits And Mastering Routine

    021 – How To Stop Caring What Others Think

    021 – How To Stop Caring What Others Think

    Learn in this episode how to control your response to what others think and learn strategies to improve your mindset.

    In dressage, we are trotting down a centre line and asking someone’s opinion on how our training is going at this level. We have paid to enter into that show, to get a trusted and experienced persons opinion. So in that time and place, that opinion matters and that is a time where you take the feedback and grow from it. No matter whether it was good or bad.

    To read the transcript of this article I wrote here Stop Caring What Others Think

    Tune in here or where ever your favourite source is at youtube, itunes, podbean, stitcher or spotify. My aim is to bring you an episode a week, so if you have any thing you would like me to discuss please do let me know.

    I look forward to bringing you what I can and helping you improve your health and wellbeing as a rider, so you can enjoy it even more.

    Want more on dressage wellness? Check out these articles and resources here

    How You Can Do Anything By Changing Your Mindset

    Simple Reminders To Achieve A Successful Rider Mindset

    Why Living In Your Comfort Zone Is Stopping You From Reaching Your Potential

    Changing Habits And Mastering Routine

Customer Reviews

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K.Morrison ,

Brilliant!

I love that you’ve done this Nicola! I can listen to your wisdom as I’m driving, and do my physical workouts to continue to improve my riding! Fabulous!

YSSSUP ,

Fab Fantail!

Such great snippets of useful information. Thank you for bringing this to fruition for the lesser experienced among us.

nic121000392849 ,

Love it!

Love it! Super informative and helpful

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