• Jonny Huntington

  • Nov 16 2021
  • Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • Jonny Huntington, an elite para-athlete, skier and mountaineer, a former British Army Officer and ultra-distance runner at Armed Forces Para-Snowsport Team (AFPST), British Army, and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst discussed suffering a brain bleed in 2014 leaving Jonny paralysed from the neck down on his left side, leading to extensive rehabilitation and discharge from the Army. We also discussed: 

    - Holistic understandings of sport
    - Objectives of sport
    - Enabling ownership of happiness
    - Complicated relationships with happiness
    - Biological mechanical viewpoints
    - Incentives 
    - Intellectual and physical challenges 
    - Creating a shift in interpretation of success
    - Enjoying experiences more than the athlete endeavour 
    - Removing external pressures
    - Treating events as a rehearsal or practice 
    - No pressures, just completion
    - Operating in stressful situations
    - The relationship between psychology and physiology
    - Unforced errors under fatigue
    - Understanding what, why, and how
    - Cognitive and physical entities 
    - The power of the internet 
    - Being analytical 

    I hope you all love this this conversation as much as I did...

    Jonny Huntington- welcome to The Athlete Welfare Community

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