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Are you struggling with confidence on the agility course? Do you let negative self-talk and doubts hold back your training and handling? Do you feel overwhelmed by the challenges that current trends in dog agility courses present to you? In this podcast, Daisy Peel discusses everything you need to know about the mental side of the sport of dog agility!

The Agility Challenge Podcast With Daisy Peel Daisy Peel

    • Sports
    • 5.0 • 38 Ratings

Are you struggling with confidence on the agility course? Do you let negative self-talk and doubts hold back your training and handling? Do you feel overwhelmed by the challenges that current trends in dog agility courses present to you? In this podcast, Daisy Peel discusses everything you need to know about the mental side of the sport of dog agility!

    Agility Challenge Tip #20 - Practice Alone

    Agility Challenge Tip #20 - Practice Alone

    Holding ourselves accountable to stay sharp, to stay focused, and to stay in the sweet spot at the edge of our abilities when we're alone is important - it's not what happens in class each week, during that one or two hour period of time! It's what happens when you're at home, in your back yard, or your basement, by yourself, with your dog, working on the things you've set out to work on, with purpose!
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    • 6 min
    Agility Challenge Tip #19 - Don't do 'drills' - instead, play small, addicting games

    Agility Challenge Tip #19 - Don't do 'drills' - instead, play small, addicting games

    As a dog trainer and handler, you're not only a student (of the game, of your instructor, etc.), but you're also a coach for your dog. And, good coaches, whether it's to your dog or to your own agility students, share a knack for transforming the most mundane activities - especially the mundane activities - into games. 
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    • 6 min
    Agility Challenge Tip #18 - Choose 5 minutes a day instead of an hour a week

    Agility Challenge Tip #18 - Choose 5 minutes a day instead of an hour a week

    In this Agility Challenge Tip, learn why practice "snacks" are better than practice "binges", what days of the week you should practice, and what it means to be ruthless about noticing and fixing mistakes.
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    • 7 min
    Agility Challenge Tip #17 - Embrace Struggle

    Agility Challenge Tip #17 - Embrace Struggle

    Many might ask why in the world would somebody continue to put themselves in the face of feeling frustrated, why would anybody want to struggle?

    In this episode, Daisy discusses why struggle is not only unavoidable when it comes to growing your skills and talents, but NECESSARY.


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    • 14 min
    Agility Challenge Tip #16 - Each day, try to build one perfect chunk

    Agility Challenge Tip #16 - Each day, try to build one perfect chunk

    What's the difference between activity and actual accomplishment? And, how do we go about making sure that we don't fall in to the trap of mistaking one for the other? Check out this Agility Challenge Tip, pulled from Daniel Coyle's Little Book of Talent, with Daisy Peel!
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    • 8 min
    Agility Challenge Tip #15: Break everything in to chunks

    Agility Challenge Tip #15: Break everything in to chunks

    In this Agility Challenge Tip, I'll speak on the topic of how to break down what might seem like an insurmountable list of training tasks in to chunks, in order to attain REAL agility mastery.
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    • 9 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
38 Ratings

38 Ratings

PawsLearning ,

Don’t Miss This

A great podcast with clear ideas that are inspiring and make me want to go out there and really work for my dog agility goals.

LucyH2317 ,

The mental workshop we didnt know we needed!

This is really hitting the pulse of the mental side of dog training and sports that we face. This is such a much needed podcast for the dog training segment of podcasts being offered.

MAB Agility ,

Courage

Courage versus confidence really spoke to me. Thanks so much for this great podcast.

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