Growth Mindset: Leaning in & out of your Comfort Zone
A webinar with guest speaker Amber Pierce
Getting out of one’s comfort zone is a form of stress like training stress, which demands both stress and recovery. When it comes to learning new skills, you need to challenge yourself (with the appropriate, progressive degree of stress) and then allow yourself the time to assimilate the same way the body needs recovery to adapt to new loads. “Recovery” is leaning back into your comfort zone again. The best way to grow is to lean into challenge and out again with a sense of periodicity, and to lean out only so far as you find that “thrill”, also known as “The Learning Zone”.
Here are more resources on the topic recommended by Amber:
Mindset, by Dr. Carol Dweck
The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brene Brown
Back in the Frame, by Jools Walker
Meet Amber:
Amber got her start as a swimmer, competing on scholarship for Stanford University’s NCAA D1 team. When a shoulder injury ended her swimming career, Amber found cycling. She won two national collegiate titles for Stanford, and in the same year, upgraded from Category 4 to 1 and signed her first professional contract. She went on to compete internationally at the professional World Cup and World Tour level for twelve years, earning more than 60 victories and a reputation as one of the most respected domestiques in the peloton. Now a Product Manager for TrainerRoad, she also co-hosts the Ask A Cycling Coach podcast. Amber has swum in open water with sharks and has an h-index of 2. She rides a Cannondale SuperSix Evo and a Suzuki SV650s. Born in Berkeley, California, she is a fifth-generation Californian, grew up in Reno, Nevada, lived in Austria for six years, and now resides with her husband in Connecticut.
Join us for all the webinars we have planned!
- June 5th – Amber Pierce: Growth Mindset: Leaning In & Out of your Comfort Zone
- June 12th – Jess Cerra @jesscerra and Janel Spilker: Nutrition & Prep Focusing on Environment: Heat, Cold, Altitude, Etc
- June 19th – Rachel Cohen @rachel-cohen: New to Navigation: Planning a Route That Checks All Your Boxes
- June 26th – Lentine Alexis @lentinealexis: Flavor as Fuel: Why Flavorful, Real Food Stokes Our Fire For Greatness + Five Ways to Up Your Ride Food Game
- July 3 – Kim Coleman and Nikki Peterson @npetersonsocal: This hour has 42 minutes: How we Make Time for Family, Career, and Bikes
- July 10 – Sarah Lamb: Bike Maintenance Essentials Pt 1
- July 17- Sarah Lamb: Bike Maintenance Essentials: Pt 2
- July 24- Isabel Reyes-Todd: How to approach your first Gravel Event
- July 31- Mary Zider and Andrea Smith: Gravel Skills Clinic
