Mind Over Muscle: The Power of Mental Training in My CrossFit Journey with Dr. Julie Foucher PH315

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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As we near the 10-year mark of Pursuing Health, I’m excited to bring you another solo episode! In this one, I reflect on how my mindset evolved throughout my competitive CrossFit career, and how I came to understand the powerful role our internal narratives play in shaping our lives. I’ll also share the strategies I still use today to cultivate the best version of myself. I’d love to hear from you! What topics or guests would you like to see featured on the podcast? Are you interested in more solo episodes, or is there something specific you’re curious about? My focus continues to evolve, and I imagine yours does too—so let’s shape the journey together! Please share your thoughts with [email protected], or connect with me on Instagram @JulieFoucher. Related Episodes: Ep 260 - Tiny Habits to Create Behavior Change with BJ Fogg Ep 262 - Upgrade Your Language with Mark England If you like this episode, please subscribe to Pursuing Health on iTunes and give it a rating or share your feedback on social media using the hashtag #PursuingHealth. I look forward to bringing you future episodes with inspiring individuals and ideas about health. Disclaimer: This podcast is for general information only, and does not provide medical advice. I recommend that you seek assistance from your personal physician for any health conditions or concerns.

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0:00.0	We also did a lot of visualization. So spending time going back into experiences that I had had
0:05.7	where I really felt like I was at my best in competition, where I was in a total flow state,
0:09.7	believed in myself, and experiencing that again in my mind, all the sensations that came along with it,
0:15.1	the emotions that came on with it. So that I was priding my body to then be in that state again
0:19.1	when I came to competition, visualizing myself, standing on the top of the podium, what that would feel like to know
0:23.2	all the hard work put into it and all the emotions that would come with it and spending time
0:26.5	priming my body for that experience.
0:35.4	Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Foucher, family physician and former CrossFit
0:41.0	Games athlete. Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap between fitness
0:46.4	and medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest self. Thank you so much for joining me.
0:51.6	Now let's get started with this week's episode.
1:04.2	Welcome back to pursuing health. I am going solo once again in this episode. And here I'm going to share with you a talk that I gave not too long ago to a small group of individuals about how my mindset evolved throughout my career
1:14.3	competing in CrossFit and how I came to understand the true impact and power of the stories
1:20.8	we tell ourselves on what happens in our lives. I hope that you find it interesting, whether you
1:27.3	followed along in my CrossFit
1:29.0	career 10 plus years ago or not. It's something that we can all translate and I continue to
1:35.3	translate into many aspects of my life today. So I hope you enjoy and are looking forward once
1:41.9	again to our 10 year anniversary of the podcast coming up this July,
1:47.3	more to come very soon.
1:52.9	Today I want to talk a little bit about an experience in my life that helped me to realize
1:58.6	the importance and a power of our stories, our language,
2:03.7	and the beliefs that we have about ourselves. And sometimes it takes a really big experience
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