An athlete should feel some stress. However, too much thinking can be harmful, says the psychologist

We welcome you to the weekend release of a new podcast called In the sports editorial. In it, moderator Jana Sedláková talks with sports psychologist Michala Bednáriková about anxiety and pre-start conditions similar to anxiety. They also troubled skier Mikaela Shiffrin in the past.

In the podcast, they also talked about the following topics:

• what anxiety or pre-start discouraging feelings in athletes look like in practice;
• what goes on in the head of an athlete who fails at an important moment;
• how successful athletes are affected by public pressure and expectations;
• what does a psychologist advise athletes regarding comments from people on social networks.