Relying on Myself - Taking the Mental Side of Training to the Extreme

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🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Ultra Adventurer and leadership coach, Brian Chontosh, aka Tosh, rejoins The Nation to dive into the mental side of endurance sports. He recently competed in a unique challenge: 24 hours in an enclosed shipping container trying to run as many miles on a Trueform treadmill. No light, no watch, no data, virtually sensory deprived. Listen to his experience in preparation and execution. There are many things that we all can take away and use in attempting new challenges.

Short video of the challenge

Ideas that came from the podcast:

"The less stuff I have, the more I rely on myself"
Advice vs. opinion - different levels of importance
Practice vs. training
"pushing the mind's mind away"
Slice the problem - Big problems have Big solutions. Break these Big problems into smaller problems and find the small solutions for them.

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0:00.0	We have a fantastic podcast coming up with Brian Contasch and you're going to love this
0:17.2	story he's about to tell us and it's a true story which makes it even better.
0:21.4	Now we also have a special offer coming from Path Projects and you know there are favorite
0:28.6	gear out there. It fits so well it just looks good and you're better when you're running it.
0:34.4	So they'll have a special offer coming to those that subscribe to our email and the other exciting
0:42.2	messages they've customized some shirts and they're available Monday so keep your eyes out
0:47.4	go to pathprojects.com. Scott this just in the Truman gift set and when I say that well let me
0:55.4	just hand it to you Scott Harry's Razors Harry's Razors has wrapped up a beautiful gift box
1:01.5	Truman gift set right now it's $20 and with our code it's $5 off that's $15 and free shipping
1:09.3	and you can give this gift to someone you care about. Let's tell you what open that up.
1:14.3	This is an amazing box this box is nice and you wouldn't have to wrap it. You wouldn't throw
1:18.8	this box away. It's beautiful. You could send this and not worry about wrapping it has a really
1:23.5	nice card in here. Open that up Scott this is from my heart to your heart or from my face to your
1:28.6	did you did you fill this out? No I didn't fill the card out but take a look at the inside of the
1:32.2	box. What do you get in a Truman set Scott? Let's see. It's sitting in front of my friend you know
1:37.2	I have to look at the computer. You look like it looks like you get the the shave cream. Yeah
1:41.7	you can lift this. I'm the cream guy. Yeah you like the cream. I like the gel. Well you know
1:45.5	we're all different. This is the the the nice Harry's it's a weighted handle. It's got that kind
1:52.3	of rubber grip kind of thing. Looks like you get three blades. Scott let me tell you about those
1:58.8	blades because I somehow I got separated from my regular Harry supply and I don't know how that
2:04.4	happened right. It's just when you went to Italy. It it happens and I'll tell you I am surprised
2:09.3	at how long these blades last yes because I keep using it and using it and I realized in the past
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