Katrin Davidsdottir, the 2015 Crossfit Games women's champion, said that success is a mindset. The difference between being a Games competitor and the Games champion is mindset. Her coach, Ben Bergeron, gave her the same pep talk before each event, so that she went into the arena confident. In watching Part 5 of the Behind the Scenes docs of the Crossfit Games, some of the athletes entering into the last day were wanting it to be over with. They had already settled on a different place other than winning. They were coasting. They had already compromised. A Champion sees each moment as an opportunity to be even better or to obtain the prize.
I have a champion mindset. And why not? Why not just say that? Put that out there? "Success is all I envision." Conor McGregor says.
I look at each item on the daily training regimen as an opportunity. It is an opportunity to grow. Each meal I consume is an opportunity.
This is what usually happens for me........I write the daily regimen of what I am supposed to accomplish that day up on the white board at my home gym. Usually there is a hard warm up attacking a weakness, strength, metcon, and gymnastics metcon. That's the cycle I am in with Misfit Athletics. Most of the time the work is daunting to me at first. I begin to set up the weights, and sometimes as I do I feel dread. I feel tired. I don't want the pain. I pace back and forth and put off starting the clock for me to begin. BUT THEN SOMETHING CHANGES. I am reminded of the quotes I have up on my white board......... "I am one of the fittest in the world." and "I am the fittest in my city." I say these things out loud. I make sure I hear them. Immediately my faith grows. Immediately I look at the work ahead of me with eagerness. I think to myself how the best in the world would view this workout, and how they would ATTACK it! They would own it. The metcon would be their bitch in the end.
Then a thought runs through my mind...... "I have an opportunity here. If I make the most of this moment, I will be fitter after. There is opportunity here."
When I looked at the power cleans the other day, I thought to myself, "there is opportunity to be that much closer to my goals after this workout." And what happened? I did 225lbs X 3. I've never done that before. That was added to my CONFIDENCE page. Over the weekend I did a workout that was 7 rounds for time of: 7 thrusters at 100# and 7 burpees jumping to a 6 inch mark. Before that workout I dreaded thrusters. But I attacked it, because it was an opportunity to grow in that moment. I am fitter now.
Champions grow daily. I used to think that I wanted to look back on the previous week and be better. As it turns out my weeks were hit or miss for me. Sometimes I would be consistent and other times I wouldn't. I didn't have a champion mindset then. Now, I look at EACH DAY to become better. Those who are watching this process are noticing me grow by leaps and bounds. There are opportunities everywhere.
Jason Khalipa said during an interview during his last year as a competitive individual athlete that he is PRing all the time. Almost daily.
I should not let my guard down for anything. Even in the midst of my routine, and attacking my routine that I do have set aside for growth, don't just settle for that. What about the other times throughout the day? What about at night? What about when I first wake up? What about during work? Is there something I can be doing, that I should be doing, to make me even better?
Ben Bergeron makes his athletes do active recovery for 50% of whatever time they spent that day training. So if they trained for 5 hours, then they spent 2.5 hours doing recovery drills.
If I train for 2 hours a day, then I need to do recovery for 1 hour a day. Basically, a long yoga session at night would do the trick.
The obsession that champions have and the commitment and determination that is in them drives them. They look at weaknesses and the places that are hindering them or weak points. Instead of letting them be a crutch, or an excuse, they attack them until they are no longer weaknesses but strengths.
Right now I have two main weaknesses: 1. excess body fat 2. flexibility. I am on the high end of body fat from where I prefer to be. I prefer to be at 8% or lower. I am already pretty strong in gymnastic movements. So having the excess poundage off my body will enable me to excel at them. when it comes to flexibility, There are two movements where I know me being tight hinders me, and I dread when these movements come up in programming. They are GHD situps and the shoulder rack with a barbell. In GHD situps by the time I get to set 2-3, then each movement causes quite a bit of pain in my hips and hamstrings. It is almost unbearable, and I know it is due to inflexibility. Otherwise, I believe I would fly through GHD's.
Now I am being honest right now.........I have not come to that mental conclusion until now about those two weaknesses. I mean, sure, I have thought about them, especially the excess body fat part. And I am doing something about THAT........in fact here in 18 minutes I'll be eating 3oz chicken breast, 2 large peppers raw, 7 baby carrots, and 9 almonds. But I haven't put on paper and actually studied what inflexibility is doing to me. How much it is hindering me
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........I am processing right now............I am meditating on this right now..............I am visualizing me putting in the work on a daily basis............I am really taking seriously how Ben Bergeron makes his athletes recover in 1:2 ratio........how that ratio for me means simply doing a yoga video at night..........how this would also help me build a night time routine to make me better and hit my goals................
...........yep................consider that weakness now in my cross hairs.
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