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Mind Over Muscle

By: Ant Middleton
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  • Summary

  • Training your body for a marathon is tough. Training your mind is even harder.

    Unless you have Ant Middleton as your mentor....

    The former special forces soldier, and star of SAS: Who Dares Wins, has recruited five first-time Virgin Money London Marathon runners who have recently faced-up to a variety of mental health challenges.

    Supported by elite marathon runner Mara Yamauchi and sports psychologist Dr Josephine Perry, Ant is on hand to help them battle through their self-doubt, anxiety and fears, can they overcome their psychological barriers to reach the finish line?

    A TBI Media production for Audible Originals.

    If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues mentioned in this podcast, please contact the Samaritans on 116 123.

    October 9th 2020 Update: Recorded in the run-up to the Virgin Money London Marathon, with a final episode recorded after the postponed event in October 2020, all seven episodes are now available.
    ©2020 Audible, Ltd. (P)2020 Audible, Ltd.
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  • Ep. 1: Obstacles Ahead

    Ep. 1: Obstacles Ahead
    Feb 6 2020

    Ant has invited his team of first-time marathon runners to a muddy assault-course on a freezing cold January morning. This is no warm-up. Ant meets his runners and puts them through a tough day of obstacles, designed to assess their attitude and application. Who will rise to the challenge, and who will fall face-down in the wet mud?
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    32 mins
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  • Ep. 2: Getting Tougher

    Ep. 2: Getting Tougher
    Feb 20 2020

    The runners came through their obstacle course initiation well, so Ant’s got an even bigger challenge that will push them to their limits. Plus elite marathon runner Mara explains to Ant what drove her to compete over 26.2 miles.
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  • Ep. 3: It's Up To You

    Ep. 3: It's Up To You
    Mar 5 2020

    As the runners’ training begins to get tougher, psychologist Josie heads to the Midlands to visit Kelly, and check whether she has what it takes to keep going. Back in the studio Ant sits down to talk to 28 year-old Victoria, who’s running for the charity that saved her life when her mental health took a sudden dive.
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Inspiring

Wise words from the king of motivational speaking. Extremely inspiring and good luck to all the recruits, I really hope you all achieve your goals.

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Disappointing

Ant's sections were dull and uninspiring but Josie's were very informative and motivating, she's the star of this.

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Be inspired!

Just finished listening to this pod cast. Very inspiring. It's really made me think that I've got to set myself a challenge like this. I wish all the participants the best of luck. 👍😉

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Great motivator

Great support for runners. Good advice and I can't wait to hear more from Ant in the future.

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Very good, but very poor timing for the marathon

If this is for the 2020 marathon then it would be better weekly instead of bi-weekly - ideally daily so it can be far more useful.

On the current schedule the last episode is published four days after the marathon has finished. I was quite inspired after the first episode, then checked the dates and realised it won't really help much as it's far too late. Will carry on though and hopefully will learn something beneficial - as the only issue I have is the timing of the publisher versus the event.

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Mental Toughness

The book has nice motivation you can use it for daily in life inspiration. I would recommend marathon athelates to listen to this book

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Great running motivation

Really enjoyed this.

Ive been listening to it while running myself and to hear other people pushing themselves motivates me to do the same.

Only problem I had is that it would reset back to Ep 1 after each episode instead of playing in sequence. Dont know why as nothing else ive listened to on here has done that but not the end of the world.

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Only One Episode

Downloaded this hoping for the full podcast but it has only downloaded episode 1, how do I download all of them????

Just saw this in the narrative!! pays to read it all :-)

New episodes will arrive in your Library fortnightly, on a Thursday.

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Not as motivational as I expected

I expected to feel very "wowed" and inspired, but I didn't.

I do like to listen to the people's stories no matter who they are, however I kind of thought that there will be more motivation and inspiration going on. I guess all this lock down kind of ruined the whole mission of this podcast.

Bonus episode is the one I probably liked the most, where people share the change in their motivation and confidence.

I also picked up some tips to motivate myself, which was nice.

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Useful

A useful guide to help in the psychological approach to a big challenge. I loved it.

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