{"id":3337,"date":"2014-03-17T18:49:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T18:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports_psychology_blog\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:53:19","slug":"perfectionism-in-gymnastics-with-wendy-bruce-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peaksports.com\/sports-psychology-blog\/perfectionism-in-gymnastics-with-wendy-bruce-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfectionism in Gymnastics with Wendy Bruce-Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this week\u2019s<strong> sports psychology podcast<\/strong>, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn and Olympian Wendy Bruce-Martin talk about the challenges of perfectionism in gymnastics. Dr. Cohn and Wendy discuss how perfectionism can be an asset but also an issue in gymnastics. 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