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.

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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!

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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.

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.