You can do way more than you ever thought you could, but first you have to shut off that 2 million year old piece of software called the Amigula.

Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast mini series on Fear, with our guest host and Fear Expert Patrick Sweeney.

In today's episode, he talks about what it means to choke or freeze,

why you do it and how you can avoid it in the future.

At the end of this episode, listen for a special Spartan Edge offer just for

podcast listeners.

Patrick Sweeney, welcome to Spartan Up Fear Podcast.

I'm here in the woods of Vermont and I just found this shotgun shell and it made me think about

something because you've tuned in and you've seen the past four weeks of

podcasts on Fear you probably have a good understanding of how the brain works now

but what you may not know is what happens when you choke have a good understanding of how the brain works now.

But what you may not know is what happens when you choke.

Have you ever had a situation where maybe

you had to do a presentation at work,

maybe you bet a buddy on sink in a five foot putt, or maybe you have some hottie out at a bar and you did the thing the kid at bay watch to get da da da da da da. Like that. That's all choking because of what's going on in your brain.

Usually it's a fear of failure.

There are a few things you can do

that'll make sure you never choke again.

Now that you're starting to build a life of courage

and starting to use fear as fuel, if you want to make the shot every time, no matter what the shot is, it can be something as simple as throwing the javelin during a Spartan race, which my wife used to choke on all the time, or if it's something like giving a great

presentation to a whole bunch of people for work. That's happened to all of us but

there's a simple routine that I've learned over the years and through some of my

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