Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,876.

Today we're going to talk about reverting back to your training. I was on a phone call today,

and the gentleman and I, who I was speaking to, we both collectively have many years of

working with some of the best athletes

in the world, myself in my position, in him as a caddy and a coach in golf. And we talked about

the mantra of the Navy SEALs. You don't rise to the level, you don't rise to the occasion.

You fall back to the level of your training.

And I just stumbled across this story of Michael Phelps.

And it says 25 meters into the 200 meter butterfly final at the 2008 Beijing Olympics,

Michael Phelps's goggles filled up with water. He said that I was blind for

175 meters, literally blind, but not experientially. He said, I reverted back to what I did in training.

In training, Phelps often simulated this exact situation, breaking my goggles on purpose

so that I had to figure out a way to stay calm and to stay relaxed. He had figured out exactly

how many strokes he typically took in the first, second, third, and fourth 50 meters. During those

blind 175 meters, he said, I was relaxed,

because I reverted back to what I did in training and counted my strokes. And when he took his

goggles off, after the water spilled out, he looked up at the scoreboard and it said WR,

or in other words, world record next to his name.

He goes on to finish.

I swam blind for 175 meters, one gold, and broke the world record.

Close quote.

This is an amazing story about the importance of trusting your training.

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