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UC San Diego's Athletic Performance Unit

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Athletic Performance Unit: Triton Mind High Performance Tip

UC San Diego is always on the cutting edge of innovation, and our Athletic Performance Unit (APU) is a superb example. The APU plays a major role in keeping Triton scholar-athletes healthy and sharp, both physically and mentally. Consisting of several different factions including Sports Medicine, Athletic Performance, Triton Mind/Mental Performance, and Triton Nutrition, when working in unison the APU ensures that the Tritons are prepared to be at the top of their competitive game.

In this summer series, we'll introduce you to our Athletic Performance Unit with amazing recipes, workout ideas, tips to keep you in the right state of mind, and much more.  

Below is Dr. Matt Kritz, UC San Diego's Executive Director for Human Performance, with a quick welcome before we get into it!

TRITON MIND: HIGH PERFORMANCE TIP

The mission of Triton Mind is to assist each scholar-athlete with becoming more resilient so that they can achieve their academic and athletic potential while learning how to be leaders on their teams, in their social groups and for their lifetime.

Today, we have a high performance tip from Mental Skills Coach Brian Alexander. Brian is a certified mental performance consultant and a former Olympic alternate athlete in water polo. He works with athletes on their mindset to find balance and perform at a higher level.

Brian has developed B.A.R.R., a plan to mentally recover from adversity and undesirable results.

BREATHE
AFFIRM
RELEASE
RESET

The idea behind B.A.R.R. is to develop a “next play mentality” while being open with a growth mindset. You can customize your own program and raise the level of your performance by raising the “B.A.R.R," on your self control!

In the video below, Brian explains more about B.A.R.R.

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