Limitless Athlete Podcast Mindset Rx‘d: World Class Mindset Coaching for the Functional Fitness Community

Whether you are proud of the athlete you become or not, depends entirely on your mindset. Not your physical capacity.
Think about your mindset as the thing which determines the gap between the level you perform at and your potential.
Someone else wrote this better than me:
Performance = potential - interference.
In my time coaching crossfit athletes mindset, I’ve located five extremely common problems which hold athletes back from their potential: the forbidden five.
Today, I’m going to help you figure out which one of these five is holding you back the most.
If you don’t know the belief holding you back, you will always be limited by it, but you probably won’t be able to see it.
“Until the unconscious becomes conscious, it will rule your life and you’ll call it fate.” C.G. Jung
Today we’re going to cover:
Why you can’t meet the standards you set for yourself
Why you don’t believe in yourself
Why you feel like the outsider
Why you can’t change your mindset
Why you feel it’s fine for someone else, but not for you

I see 7 big reasons CrossFit athletes stay frustrated with poor performances.
 
If you consistently finish up comps or workouts second guessing your effort. Or look back at months of training and realise you haven’t come as far as you’d like. Or are just frustrated at how slowly you’re improving, this is for you.
 
Especially if you have a hunch that your body isn’t the limiting factor, it’s probably your mind.
 
Today, I’m going to let you know the 7 traps that I see athletes falling into time and again.
 
If you fall into one of these 7 traps, your mindset will suffer, and so will your performance.

In this podcast I’m going to explain how I debrief CrossFit Open performances with my athletes to help train their mindset.


 


This ensures no matter the result, they can use The Open to be better than they were before.


 


Before we get started, I need to reiterate something:


 


The quickest way to make The Open a complete failure is to learn nothing from it.


 


No matter if it went well or poorly, you stop growing when you stop learning.


 


The biggest mistake athletes can make right now (or after any comp) is failing to reflect on it by rushing onto the next thing.


 


I’ve found that if athletes go through this process they never regress. Of course, there’s some more depth I hit whilst in conversation with them, but these are my starting points


 


A mindset debrief comes in the following parts:


Praising the positive intentionally


Growing from setbacks and disappointments


Increasing your self awareness


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If your mindset is an exhausting emotional rollercoaster, I wrote this for you.
 
Training like a full time athlete is exhausting enough. Combining it with not being able to live comfortably off sponsorship, running a full time & demanding job, or being a parent is infinitely harder.
 
You have other exhausting things in your life, and you still have lofty aims.
 
Yet the constant demands of everything stack up.
 
And there’s always the inner doubt of “is all this even worth it?”
 
Part of you wants to give up, but there’s a stronger part of you which desires a life well lived.
 
Most athletes never reach their potential because they let this emotional rollercoaster take away from what’s important, create self doubt and make them think that anything less than perfection is failure.
 
You don’t have to live that life. You don’t deserve that life.
 
Today, I am going to teach you:
 
How to drop the pressure when you need to perform
How to let go of perfectionism
How to stop being knocked around by your thoughts and emotions
How to regain the fun in training

“I’ve tried to journal, but I don’t know how.”
If that sounds like you, this blog post is your answer. I’m going to give you an exact framework of the 4 most common journaling exercises I use with the athletes I work with.
If you’re like almost every athlete I have spoken to, you know you should be journaling, but you’re not sure how, you’re not sure it will even benefit you, or you struggle with it feeling like it’s working.
If you’re not journaling, you’re missing out on huge mindset gains because you’re just settling for what’s normal to you…
…not what’s best for you.
Most athletes never get the most out of journaling because they don’t know how to do it effectively.
I’m going to teach you how to journal for four main goals:

How to be more a more positive athlete


How to increase your self-knowledge


How to become mentally tougher (or any other character skill you want)


How to be more consistent, driven & disciplined

There are two types of comparison. One really is the thief of joy. If you compare in this way, you’ll always find proof you are not good enough. Your workouts will be filled with doubt and negativity. Your progress will stutter to a halt.
 
Whilst this form of comparison will hurt you, comparison’s lighter side will guide you to better performances. It will highlight your best path to growth. And it will provide fuel for your progress as an athlete.
 
So maybe you should be comparing yourself more, not less.
 
This week, I’ve had conversations with a handful of the athletes I work with about comparison. They have been struggling with comparing themselves to the athletes they either look up to or want to beat.
 
I told them they need to stop that way of thinking.
 
Yet I had a conversation with another athlete where I encouraged them to compare themselves more to those kinds of athletes. When they did that, their performance excelled, their motivation spiked, and they felt more positive.
 
Today, I’ll be explaining how I approach comparison with my athletes, and ensure that they’re using the correct type to fuel their process, not beat themselves up with.
 
We’ll be covering
 
The difference between the two types of comparison and what to avoid if you want to perform well
How to recognise the negative type of comparison and limit how it shows up
An antidote to the non-serving comparison to fuel positivity
How to train positive comparison to excel as an athlete