Mental Performance

You have a workout program, a meal plan, and perhaps a coach (it's awesome if you do). Fitness plans are easy to come by, and most work when followed, but do you have a mindset plan? What are you doing to improve your mental performance? Is this even a consideration?

It's easy to program a result for exercise and nutrition, the science is pretty solid and only getting better. Do this to get this. That's the easy part. The hard part is adhering to it. The hard part is doing it long enough to see the outcome. What do you do when you don't feel like following these plans? What do you do when you feel like giving up? What do you do when you don't see the results you expect? How do you turn failure into success?

As cliche as it is to say, your mindset determines your success in everything, especially fitness. Your success is rooted in how you think or don’t think. Your success is affected by taking action or no action. Action is affected by your mindset.

Knowing I should do something but not doing it has been my personal challenge and the challenge of most people who hire me to coach them. Even if you lack the knowledge of an expert, it is easy to figure out what to do or what not to do. You either choose to do something or not to do something. Therefore, getting yourself to start something or stop something comes down to mindset. Mindset is where your efforts should be focused.

Maybe I’m slow, but it took me a decade in fitness to realize that what was lacking for all of us was a mental performance program. This is the key service I provide. Yes, I coach strength and conditioning. Yes, I help people recover and become more resilient to injuries. Yes, I coach nutrition. But where my best work is done is in coaching people’s mental performance.

In other words, I coach people to think better so they can do better.