Coaching Games athletes ft. Jami Tikkanen - Ep.66
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Interview with Elite Coach, Jami Tikkanen (@jamitikkanen). Some of you may recognize Jami for his work with Annie Thorisdottir and Bjorgvin Guomundsson during the CrossFit Games. In this episode, we will get into Jami’s online training platform “The Training Plan”, as well as tips for goal setting, and discussing the differences in training for the Open, Regionals, and the Games.
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Topics of discussion:
7:10 - Finding success as a Coach/Athlete
10:20 – Goal setting system
14:35 – Role models
16:20 – The Training Plan
23:48 – Open, Regionals, Games prep-training
31:05 – How to reach your goals and live a better life
39:06 – “Shiny Object Syndrome”
44:05 – Remote Coaching
45:35 – Developing as a Coach
Recommended literature:
Resilience by Eric Greitens
Self-Coaching 101 by Brooke Castillo
10-Minute Mental Toughness by Jason Selk
ZenPencils – Inspirational cartoons
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the Brut Shrink podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | This week I interview Yami Tikhanen. |
| 0:08.9 | He is the owner and founder of the training plan as well as the longtime coach of Annie Thorstotter. |
| 0:16.3 | For those of you who don't know Yami already, he is an absolutely phenomenal guy and one of the best coaches in any sport that I've ever met. |
| 0:26.7 | This show is just full of wisdom from very technical things in our sport as well as his coaching philosophy and |
| 0:37.4 | philosophy in general as a human. Tons of good stuff I know you're going to |
| 0:41.6 | enjoy it before we get started. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm doing a little experiment here. I'm going to invite any of you that are interested |
| 0:47.0 | to call into a voicemail that I have set up and leave some questions. |
| 0:52.9 | So then I'm going to play back your question |
| 0:56.1 | on the podcast, and I'm either going to answer |
| 0:59.1 | the question myself, or I'm going to get |
| 1:00.9 | one of my guests to help me answer those questions. |
| 1:04.4 | If you're interested, the number is 801-490503. |
| 1:11.2 | That's 801 449.0503 |
| 1:16.2 | If you're not already subscribed to our newsletter, |
| 1:19.3 | you can do so by going to brute strength training.com. where we're going to keep you up to date |
| 1:25.0 | with all of the new video content that we have coming out |
| 1:27.0 | as well as some free e-books that we're putting out |
| 1:31.0 | during the holiday season. |
| 1:32.7 | So enjoy the show. |
| 1:34.7 | What's up guys, this is Mike Kaju |
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