Breathe and relax – your body will respond to fear by increasing your heart rate, tensing your muscles

Experience – the more you’ve practiced something, the more confidence you’ll have in your ability to navigate the obstacle successfully. You’ll also be able to scale this up to larger obstacles.

Practice mindfulness – This is a technique that encourages you to focus on the here and now, rather than imagined future scenarios. It can help you process what’s going on around you and tune out distractions, which in turn will help you when you’re in a situation that makes you anxious.

Visualisation – In your head, imagine riding through the obstacle. Think about how to position your body leading up to and going through the obstacle. Think ahead to the end point of the obstacle and riding out the other side.

Identify the fear – Which type of fear comes into play for you most often? If you find that you suffer from one type in particular, it may be worth taking some time to work on the root causes.

Change your internal monologue – This can take some work and a lot of practice, but try and change what you say to yourself. Transforming comments like ‘I can’t do this, I shouldn’t do this, I’m going to hurt myself’ to ‘I’ve done something like this before’, ‘I’m just going to give it a go’ and ‘I can do this’ can actually make a big difference.

Give yourself a break – By this we mean don’t beat yourself up about the fact you feel anxious or fearful. It’s completely natural and many people fee the same way. Get to know how you respond to different obstacles, and work out your own strategies for overcoming them; it’s time well spent.