#311 Unlocking Athlete Potential Through Psychology | Ben Mayfield-Smith, Dave Tate's Table Talk
Dave Tate's Table Talk
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
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| 0:00.0 | If we're real about it, I could have someone drop 20 pounds in two weeks. It would not take a lot of work if we really narrow down the basics of how to drop someone weight. So that's not a real goal. That's not something that you want to work towards over five years. If I was still helping you try to lose 20 pounds in five years, I'm not doing my job and you've probably not been put in the effort. So what do you actually want in five years |
| 0:22.8 | time? Do you want a pro card? Do you just want to have been on stage? Do you want to lift that |
| 0:27.4 | 300 kilo deadlift? Do you want to run 5, 10 kilometers for the first time? Do you want to run a |
| 0:32.3 | marathon? What does your family look like in that time? What is your business, your career? |
| 0:36.4 | What's your financial situation? What are these things all look like so that we? What is your business, your career? What's your financial situation? |
| 0:38.3 | What are these things all look like so that we have something to tangibly attach these goals towards these outcomes, these values? |
| 0:43.3 | All right, guys, we're the bullshit. Welcome to Table Talk. |
| 0:55.2 | All right, guys, we're back with another episode of Table Talk. My guest today is Ben Mayfield |
| 0:59.3 | Smith. Ben is the founder of Matter Athletica. Is that right? And you deal mostly with the |
| 1:06.1 | mental aspect and the psychological aspect of prep conditioning, not just for bodybuilders, but for executive |
| 1:14.9 | CEOs and pretty much anybody across the board. |
| 1:18.4 | How did you, what's your origin story? |
| 1:20.3 | Like how did you get into this? |
| 1:23.2 | So we're going to go way back. |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah, cool, cool. |
| 1:26.5 | So to go really far back with it, my origin was in playing rugby leagues as a kid. |
| 1:35.0 | That was a big part of my life. |
| 1:36.5 | It taught me a lot of trait, skills, abilities. |
| 1:39.6 | That was kind of my, the direction I want to take was I'm going to play rugby league professionally. |
| 1:43.9 | That's like Australia's big contact sport. That's our version of American football. And at the age of 21, and I played right through high school, we played at a decent level. We won our state title. All the cool stuff we're done there. And at the age of 21, where I was really trying to push that next contract, try and make it to the semi-professional level in Australia, I was hit by car. |
| 2:06.3 | So how many years do you have aspiring to that at that point? So I started about five years old |
| 2:12.0 | and I was 21 when the accident happened. So 16 years. That was like my life was dedicated to this one thing. |
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