Mental Training for Athletes ft. Dawn Fletcher
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Brute Strength Podcast, I'm interviewing Mentality WOD owner, Dawn Fletcher. Dawn obtained her Masters in Sports Psychology and since then has been helping her athletes conquer their minds while improving both performance and life. In this episode we'll be getting into her experience combating anxiety and panic attacks, as well as the fundamentals of mindset training, and finally how to improve awareness and setting appropriate expectations for yourself. Enjoy the show!
Topics:
02:37 - Mentality WOD
06:35 - Mental performance
08:07 - Dealing with anxiety
19:34 - Targeted outcomes in training
30:40 - Solitude & Silence
37:10 - Essentialism
Links:
Books:
The 4-Hour Work Week - Ferriss
Love Does - Goff
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.4 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou. |
| 0:19.6 | Mind, Body, brute. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey, and welcome back. My name is Mike Cashew and you're listening to the Brute Strength |
| 0:29.7 | podcast. This week's guest is Dawn Fletcher of the Mentality Wad. Dawn has a master's in sports |
| 0:37.1 | psychology and if you know anything about me, you know that this is |
| 0:40.0 | one of my favorite topics. In general, I think that understanding and conquering our own minds is the |
| 0:46.8 | highest leverage thing that we can do for our performance and our lives. In this show, we talk |
| 0:53.3 | about her personal experience with anxiety and |
| 0:56.3 | panic attacks and how that relates to her career. We talk about a shit-talking friend that |
| 1:01.1 | taught her an important lesson, the fundamentals of mindset training, building self-awareness, |
| 1:06.8 | the topic of essentialism, setting and managing expectations, and more. |
| 1:12.6 | Before we get started on this show, I've got something new for you. I've got a downloadable |
| 1:17.4 | PDF with the top five most downloaded podcast, along with the biggest takeaways from each. |
| 1:25.3 | You can access that at brute strength training.com backslash |
| 1:29.2 | top five. That's brute strength training.com backslash top five. Enjoy the show. |
| 1:37.3 | Dawn, what's up? Thanks for joining me today. Hey, thanks for having me, Michael. I've really been |
| 1:42.4 | looking forward to this. Obviously, to people that listen to this podcast often, mindset is by far my favorite topic. |
| 1:52.7 | And so I really, I just geek out any time I get to talk to an expert about it. |
| 1:58.4 | So I'm really excited to have you on and to uncover some of the |
| 2:03.2 | things that you're doing that's working with people. So first, I want to talk about how you got |
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