Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ,

Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

Hey this is Michael Kaju and today I'm gonna teach you how to do 16 hours of mindset training every single day in a way that adds almost no extra energy or

effort to your life so that you can take your performance in the gym to the next level.

You're putting all of this work in the gym and you want to see your

performance reflect that hard work. And if your mindset continues to get in your way, you

will never reach your full potential. I believe this is how you can truly

train yourself to become someone that others will call a gamer or clutch or

someone that has the it factor.

If you didn't know, I am a three times crossfit games athlete

and two times crossfit games affiliate cup champion.

And when I look back on the biggest tools for training my mind if I

look back on that time period and what allowed me to perform better in

competition than I did in training. It was all of the things that I was doing

outside of training and competitions. So people ask me questions like, how do I go harder in training and competitions how do you suffer harder how do you stop

yourself from putting the bar down how do you stop seeing mistakes as failures how do

you execute your plan? I think a better line of thinking is how do I

learn to do all of these things in my life in general? Both your training and your competition, if you combine them, are a very small percentage of your waking hours.

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