Plan B - Athletes supporting Athletes

Mental Performance Coach B
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Success in sports is 90% mental, yet we rarely talk about what goes on behind the scenes. Plan B - Athletes supporting Athletes pulls back the curtain on the athletic experience. Coach B sits down with athletes from across the globe to discuss the high-pressure moments, the transitions, and the mental strategies that keep them going. This isn't just a sports podcast; it’s a toolkit of support and knowledge designed to help active and retired athletes navigate their careers with confidence and authenticity

  1. 4d ago

    Golf Special - Stop Thinking And Start Swinging

    The fastest way to lose your swing can be trying to “fix” it while you’re standing over the ball. I’m Coach B, and I’m talking directly to golfers, junior players, college athletes, pros, plus the parents and coaches who live in the pressure cooker right alongside them. If you’ve ever felt your body get tight, your mind get loud, and your putting stroke suddenly feel foreign, there’s a reason, and it’s not a character flaw. We dig into what performance science says about overthinking and pressure, including classic findings on self-focus and what golf research calls reinvestment: reaching back for technical rules and consciously controlling a movement that works best on autopilot. I also break down why golf is basically built to trigger this problem. It’s self-paced, the ball is still, the round is long, and there’s endless time to replay mistakes and predict consequences. That’s why the yips can show up for so many serious golfers, living on a spectrum from anxiety-driven choking to deeper movement disruption. Then we get practical. I explain overreaching as intensity plus technique obsession, and why shifting from an internal focus (body parts) to an external focus (club, target, start line, ball flight) can stabilize performance. I also share my developing doctoral frameworks: Environmental Identity Conditioning (EIC), which looks at how a golf-only environment can make each shot feel like a threat to identity, and neuroplastic complementary training, a proactive approach that puts athletes into low-stakes “beginner” situations so their brain and sense of self can expand beyond the scorecard. If you want fewer swing thoughts and more trust under pressure, hit play, share this with a golfer who needs it, and subscribe, rate, and review so more players can stop thinking and start swinging. This Podcast is your Podcast, text us if you're an Athlete with a story to share... The only podcast that is all about Athletes Supporting Athletes! Support the show To see more pictures, footage and out takes, bloopers and more follow us @PlanB.By Coach B on Instagram and or contact Coach B directly at www.coachbperformance.com to be part of the show. *Athletes must be 18 years or older or in the company of their legal guardian to participate in the show. Participants can remain anonymous with no visual footage for marketing and names can be changed to protect identity.

  2. Sep 23

    Why Female Coaches Matter In Cross-Country

    Half the kids lining up for high school cross-country are girls, yet only a fraction of youth and high school coaches are women. That mismatch is not just a staffing problem. It shapes who feels welcomed, who feels seen, and who stays in sport when the pressure spikes in the teen years. We sit down with Coach Shari, the head of the Vintage High School cross-country program in Napa, to talk about what it looks like when a female coach is both leading the team and living the sport herself.  Shari takes us inside her recent Sydney Marathon experience, from effort-based hill running to the emotional jolt of community on the course, including the kind of crowd support that makes you forget you are deep into mile 20. From there we rewind to her origin story: she did not grow up as a runner, started moving to be a better role model for her daughters, coached Girls on the Run, then built from a first 5K to marathons, a Boston qualifier, and a coaching career that is now well over a decade. Along the way we dig into the mindset shift that matters for every athlete, especially in endurance sports: stop chasing only outcomes and start owning the process.  We also break down what makes cross-country such a powerful high school sport: no cuts, no bench, and scoring that turns every place into a team point. Shari explains how she coaches a large roster with very different ability levels using pace groups, individualized progress markers, and smart season planning. She shares how she sells running to teenagers who think it is punishment, why “try it for two weeks” works, and her rapid-fire tips on race prep, early pacing, carbs, protein, calming nerves, and why athletes waste too much energy obsessing over watch times.  If you care about girls in sport, high school coaching, cross-country training, or marathon mindset, hit play. Subscribe, share this with a coach or parent who needs it, and leave a review if it helps. What would change in your community if more women felt supported to coach? This Podcast is your Podcast, text us if you're an Athlete with a story to share... The only podcast that is all about Athletes Supporting Athletes! Support the show To see more pictures, footage and out takes, bloopers and more follow us @PlanB.By Coach B on Instagram and or contact Coach B directly at www.coachbperformance.com to be part of the show. *Athletes must be 18 years or older or in the company of their legal guardian to participate in the show. Participants can remain anonymous with no visual footage for marketing and names can be changed to protect identity.

  3. Sep 16

    No Warning - Defending the Hyrox Athlete

    A viral moment can make it look like an athlete made a simple choice, but racing at the limit isn’t lived in slow motion. We talk about what happened at the HYROX Championship in Beijing with Australian world champion Joanna Wiertrzyk, the backlash that followed, and the part most hot takes skip: sometimes the body fails without warning, and the brain you’re demanding “better judgment” from may not be fully online. We break down the sports physiology behind sudden gut distress in high-intensity endurance racing: why blood gets pulled from the digestive system, how absorption can stop, and how concentrated sugar from energy gels can trigger an osmosis effect that hits fast. From there, we connect the dots to performance and safety: falling glucose, heat stress, inflammation, and adrenaline can narrow attention and measurably impair decision making. That changes how we should think about blame, personal responsibility, and what fair expectations look like mid-race. We also talk about the role of race organizers and rulebooks when there’s a contamination risk, and why online humiliation can be a real psychological injury that deserves early support, not public shaming. You’ll leave with clear, practical race nutrition tips (water with gels, practice fueling in training, start early, nothing new on race day) and one bigger planning question to answer before you ever pin on a bib: what would make you stop? If this made you rethink how we treat athletes under pressure, subscribe, share this with a training partner, and leave a review with your take: where should the line be between athlete grit and organizer responsibility? This Podcast is your Podcast, text us if you're an Athlete with a story to share... The only podcast that is all about Athletes Supporting Athletes! Support the show To see more pictures, footage and out takes, bloopers and more follow us @PlanB.By Coach B on Instagram and or contact Coach B directly at www.coachbperformance.com to be part of the show. *Athletes must be 18 years or older or in the company of their legal guardian to participate in the show. Participants can remain anonymous with no visual footage for marketing and names can be changed to protect identity.

  4. Sep 10

    Chloe Explains How She Chooses Pitches And Stays Calm Under Pressure

    Softball can disappear from the Olympics on a tie vote, get blamed for decisions it didn’t make, then fight its way back years later. That roller coaster is the backdrop for a conversation that’s much more personal: what it actually feels like to grow up inside youth softball right now, when travel ball is busy, seasons run year-round, and the pressure to “get better” never really turns off. We’re joined by Chloe, a 12-year-old softball player from Texas, and she’s refreshingly clear about what keeps her playing: the people, the culture, and the feeling she gets on the field. We talk about how she started at eight, when she decided to take practice seriously, and what her weekly schedule looks like with tournaments around the Dallas area. She also breaks down positions, why she avoids catcher, and how speed and a strong arm land her in the outfield. If you love the chess match of softball pitching, Chloe delivers. She explains the difference between a fastball-focused pitcher and a changeup pitcher, how changing speeds creates real “unexpected” movement for hitters, and how pitch calls happen through number signals and coach input. Then we get into the part every athlete needs: what to do when the game gets messy. Her reset is simple and powerful, step off, breathe, slow the pace, and take control back. We also cover arm care and athlete recovery: bands for shoulders and elbows, learning the difference between tired and “something’s wrong,” hydration during two-hour games in the heat, and why rest days matter for long-term health. To keep balance, Chloe talks art, reading, and even wanting to learn crocheting, plus a thoughtful take on parents cheering versus coaching from the stands. If you like real youth sports insight with practical mental toughness tools, hit play, subscribe, share this with a softball family, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. This Podcast is your Podcast, text us if you're an Athlete with a story to share... The only podcast that is all about Athletes Supporting Athletes! Support the show To see more pictures, footage and out takes, bloopers and more follow us @PlanB.By Coach B on Instagram and or contact Coach B directly at www.coachbperformance.com to be part of the show. *Athletes must be 18 years or older or in the company of their legal guardian to participate in the show. Participants can remain anonymous with no visual footage for marketing and names can be changed to protect identity.

  5. Aug 28

    Stop Blaming Mindset - Coaches lets look at Planning & Fatigue First!

    Your athlete looks unstoppable in training, then shows up on game day and can’t hit the same skills they’ve done for years. Before we blame mindset, we take a hard look at what performance research actually says about why trained athletes underperform when it matters most, and what coaches can change starting this week. We unpack de-automization, the hidden mechanism behind “choking,” where pressure and self-monitoring drag an automatic skill back under conscious control. Then we zoom out to the coaching environment: athletes don’t only create their own pressure. Studies on coach athlete emotion congruence suggest they track our emotional state closely, even affecting stress biology like cortisol. If we’re anxious, they absorb it, whether we speak it or not. The biggest missing piece is cognitive fatigue. Physical tapering and supercompensation are familiar parts of periodization, but the brain also carries load. Research shows mentally demanding tasks can cut endurance and degrade technical execution without obvious changes in heart rate, lactate, or VO2. That means an athlete can look “rested” on paper and still arrive with a tired brain that can’t keep skills automatic. We close with practical coaching takeaways: protect the adaptation window, reduce cognitive load in pre-competition week, and treat mental rest like a non-negotiable part of the plan. Subscribe for more sports psychology and performance planning, share this with a coach who needs it, and leave a review so more athletes stop getting blamed for problems the plan can fix. This Podcast is your Podcast, text us if you're an Athlete with a story to share... The only podcast that is all about Athletes Supporting Athletes! Support the show To see more pictures, footage and out takes, bloopers and more follow us @PlanB.By Coach B on Instagram and or contact Coach B directly at www.coachbperformance.com to be part of the show. *Athletes must be 18 years or older or in the company of their legal guardian to participate in the show. Participants can remain anonymous with no visual footage for marketing and names can be changed to protect identity.

  6. Jul 10

    Recursive Familiarity For A Stronger Season

    “Starting over” sounds tough and inspiring, but for most athletes it quietly poisons confidence. We get honest about why that phrase can feel like your years of work got wiped to zero, especially during a career transition like a new team, new league, or new country. Then we introduce a simple mental performance framework Coach B has been building in doctoral research: recursive familiarity, the idea that your next season is not a replay but a revision. We break down how athletic seasons move in cycles, how endings are rarely clean, and why the past still shows up through what we call memory seepage. If last season brought injury trauma, a broken routine, tension with a coach, or a story you keep telling yourself about “who you are,” that residue can leak into preseason and shape your next performances. The goal is not to delete the past or pretend it didn’t happen. The goal is to use it as material, keep what works, and rewrite what doesn’t, like an upgrade from version 1.0 to version 1.2. To make it practical, we shrink the whole philosophy into a daily routine you can do in 30 seconds before your feet hit the floor. You’ll hear three questions that help you separate useful feedback from harsh verdicts and make one clear choice each morning: face forward. If you want better focus, stronger confidence, and a healthier athlete mindset this season, hit play, share this with a teammate, and subscribe and leave a review so more athletes can find it. This Podcast is your Podcast, text us if you're an Athlete with a story to share... The only podcast that is all about Athletes Supporting Athletes! Support the show To see more pictures, footage and out takes, bloopers and more follow us @PlanB.By Coach B on Instagram and or contact Coach B directly at www.coachbperformance.com to be part of the show. *Athletes must be 18 years or older or in the company of their legal guardian to participate in the show. Participants can remain anonymous with no visual footage for marketing and names can be changed to protect identity.

  7. Jun 22

    Why Athletes Feel Worse When They Chase Happiness

    We talk about why chasing constant happiness sets athletes up to feel broken on perfectly normal days. We connect authenticity, social media comparison, and sports culture to a practical mindset shift: “okay” is a valid place to live while you keep training.  • Oliver Tree as a reminder that truth beats performance  • the expectation of happiness as an impossible standard  • the hedonic treadmill and why humans return to baseline  • highlight reels and upward comparison on social media  • emotional granularity and naming feelings precisely  • athletes trapped by two scoreboards: results and mood  • practical resets: drop the false bar, get specific, let okay be enough, audit inputs  • resilience built by accepting the full emotional range  If it did, share it with someone who you feel needs to hear it.  This Podcast is your Podcast, text us if you're an Athlete with a story to share... The only podcast that is all about Athletes Supporting Athletes! Support the show To see more pictures, footage and out takes, bloopers and more follow us @PlanB.By Coach B on Instagram and or contact Coach B directly at www.coachbperformance.com to be part of the show. *Athletes must be 18 years or older or in the company of their legal guardian to participate in the show. Participants can remain anonymous with no visual footage for marketing and names can be changed to protect identity.

  8. Jun 3

    From Burnout To Belonging - How a Korean Athlete Made a New Start in USA Collegiate Soccer

    This Podcast is your Podcast, text us if you're an Athlete with a story to share... The only podcast that is all about Athletes Supporting Athletes! Support the show To see more pictures, footage and out takes, bloopers and more follow us @PlanB.By Coach B on Instagram and or contact Coach B directly at www.coachbperformance.com to be part of the show. *Athletes must be 18 years or older or in the company of their legal guardian to participate in the show. Participants can remain anonymous with no visual footage for marketing and names can be changed to protect identity.

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Success in sports is 90% mental, yet we rarely talk about what goes on behind the scenes. Plan B - Athletes supporting Athletes pulls back the curtain on the athletic experience. Coach B sits down with athletes from across the globe to discuss the high-pressure moments, the transitions, and the mental strategies that keep them going. This isn't just a sports podcast; it’s a toolkit of support and knowledge designed to help active and retired athletes navigate their careers with confidence and authenticity

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  • Creator
    Mental Performance Coach B
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Plan B - Athletes supporting Athletes
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