Here's part of a Great post from CrossFit New England Head Coach Ben Bergeron
If you are Competing in the Open & want to reach your full potential, take note.
1. NO EXCUSES - EVER. It was raining, you had to do pull ups at the globo gym, your hand ripped. Adversity happens to everyone, in every training session, everyday. Every Games athlete deals with the same issues as you - but they recognize adversity as a part of life. If you use excuses now what happens on game day?
2. Pay attention to the small things. This seems obvious when comes to things that directly impact your training: sleep, nutrition, warm up, cool down, recover and rest. But there is one small thing that will trump all those together - your mental thought process.
Your Thoughts become your Words, Your Words lead to Action, and Action will dictate your Results.
If you have negative approach to a workout or are disappointed with your performance you need to turn it around mentally. Instead of dwelling on how bad your handstand push ups are and fearing the workout, be excited at the opportunity to become better at a weakness.
During the workout recognize the voice in your head. That is your personal coach. Is that voice a good coach or bad coach? Is the voice telling you that you can lift the weight, that you can do one more rep, that you can be a little bit faster? Or is the voice reminding you about the pain, how heavy the weight is, and that you need more rest?
After the WOD reinforce anything that went well and use any negatives as a learning experiences. Take solace in the fact that we fail in training to succeed in competition. You need to fail reps, blow up, and try new things that don't work in order to improve. Focus on the improving, not the failing. While you are lying on the floor after the wod tell yourself that you love the feeling of battery acid in your veins, you love working hard, and that you got 1% better today.
I'm glad you put this up Glenn :)
ReplyDeleteI've been tuning into my inner voice over the last week and I have to say I have been talking myself down about what I can't do as a opposed to all the things I can do and have made progress on since joining CFP in 2012. I think this comes from wishing that I had mastered a few more skills etc at this point.. But hey... I've been super committed and been training my butt off so I need to be proud of myself and just get excited. I decided yesterday that I need to get in a good frame of mind with a can-do attitude. Each time a negative thought pops in my head I will counter act it with 2 things I have made progress with!!
Thanks!! I needed this!!!
Spot on Eliza. There is not such thing as failure if we learn just 1 thing in the attempt.
ReplyDeleteSuccess is a result of good judgement.
Good judgment is received from having learned from bad judgement. Failure is not an option if we move forward and take the positves and learn from the negatives.
I love the thought process...."I just got 1% better today."
Hey, 1 % better every day is 365% in a year....Thats a whole different direction.