Coaching practices for Peak Performance Ericsson
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I can’t actually tell good from great while I’m doing it
- Some days I’m unstoppable and other days I’m flat for no reason I can name, and I have no idea what was actually different
- I’m never fully on and never fully off
- I pump myself up with loud music and psych-up talk before everything, and then I wonder why my hands shake on the parts that need a steady, precise touch
- I start a long stretch of demanding work in a good place, but somewhere in the middle I drift
Practices that may help
- The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical
The Ideal Performance State (IPS) is Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz’s term for the specific combination of physical, mental, and emotional activation at which a performer reliably produces peak output. The IPS is individual-specific — what energizes one performer paralyzes another — and is accessed through deliberate energy management rather than through hoping to "get in the zone." - Build and refine mental representations of expert performance
Develop an internal image of what excellent execution looks, feels, and sounds like.
Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability - Map your personal Ideal Performance State
Identify the exact mental, emotional, and physical conditions under which you perform at your best.
The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical - Oscillate deliberately between full engagement and full recovery
Treat disengagement between performances as a skill to develop, not an indulgence to manage.
The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical - Match your routine’s arousal level to the task demand
Fine-tune whether your routine should up-regulate or down-regulate your energy before the performance.
Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical - Monitoring Your Performance Zone in Real Time
Learn your personal arousal signals and check them periodically during extended performance tasks.
The Yerkes-Dodson Law: Finding Your Optimal Performance Zone - Analyze your best days — not just your failures — to identify what drives success
When performance is above target, investigate what made it so: replicating peaks is as important as preventing troughs.
Feedback Loops and Behavior Change - Regulate emotional tone as part of performance preparation
Identify the specific emotional tone (challenged, confident, competitive, calm) your IPS requires — and practice producing it.
The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical - Manage all four energy dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual
Treat energy as the fundamental performance resource — not time, effort, or technique.
The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical - Build rhythmic oscillation between stress and recovery
High performance is not sustained effort — it is deliberate alternation between full engagement and full recovery.
The Energy Audit
Related concerns
- The Ideal Performance State At Work
The Ideal Performance State (IPS) is Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz’s term for the specific combination of physical, mental, and emotional activation at which a performer reliably produces peak output. The IPS is individual-specific — what energizes one performer paralyzes another — and is accessed through deliberate energy management rather than through hoping to "get in the zone."
- The Ideal Performance State When Burned Out
The Ideal Performance State (IPS) is Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz’s term for the specific combination of physical, mental, and emotional activation at which a performer reliably produces peak output. The IPS is individual-specific — what energizes one performer paralyzes another — and is accessed through deliberate energy management rather than through hoping to "get in the zone."
- Ideal Performance State Loehr Schwartz
The Ideal Performance State (IPS) is Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz’s term for the specific combination of physical, mental, and emotional activation at which a performer reliably produces peak output. The IPS is individual-specific — what energizes one performer paralyzes another — and is accessed through deliberate energy management rather than through hoping to "get in the zone."
- Peak Performance Analysis
Identify the exact mental, emotional, and physical conditions under which you perform at your best.
Map your personal Ideal Performance State
- Peak Performance State
The Ideal Performance State (IPS) is Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz’s term for the specific combination of physical, mental, and emotional activation at which a performer reliably produces peak output. The IPS is individual-specific — what energizes one performer paralyzes another — and is accessed through deliberate energy management rather than through hoping to "get in the zone."
- Physical Energy And Performance
Treat energy as the fundamental performance resource — not time, effort, or technique.
Manage all four energy dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual
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