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Muscle Intelligence

Successful coaching and goal-setting with Exercise & Sports Psychologist Adam Feit

Muscle Intelligence

Ben Pakulski

Alternative Health, Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.7761 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Adam Feit, Precision Nutrition's head strength and sport psychology coach, joins me on today's episode to talk about managing client expectations, goal setting and creating lasting behavioral change. We get into the future of coaching, some sports psychology research and being a coach that seeks strengths.

Known for his passion, drive, and enthusiasm for excellence in coaching, Adam has presented around the world on the topics of nutrition, coaching, and strength and conditioning. He has consulted with a multitude of youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional athletic teams.

He is the co-author of the Coaches Guide to Jump Training, Complete Guide to Training the Female Athlete, and recently completed his Ph.D. in Sport and Exercise Psychology on the use of psychological skills and strategies in collegiate strength and conditioning. 

To find out more about Adam, please visit
https://www.precisionnutrition.com/author/adam-feit
http://completejumpstraining.com/ http://trainingthefemaleathlete.com/
https://www.instagram.com/aefeit/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muscle Intelligence Podcast. I'm your host, Ben Bikolski. We frame this podcast around living your greatest life in a body that you love.

0:20.2

And the way your mind and body integrate has become perhaps my greatest area of interest,

0:25.6

following that down the path.

0:27.6

How do we do that?

0:28.6

How do we create this mind and body that are in peace, that are in harmony, that are in synergy?

0:33.6

Then allow us to access our greatest self. What does our greatest self mean? In my eyes,

0:40.3

it means accessing who I am at my soul. What is my soul telling me to do in this life? Who am I at the

0:46.3

level of being? And that's not necessarily thinking and doing. It's very different than thinking and

0:50.8

doing. And going through and understanding the psychology of the human mind,

0:57.4

ultimately as it integrates into sport, is the primary focus of today's conversation.

1:02.3

So whether you're someone who's a coach, an athlete, or just someone who's looking to optimize

1:07.0

for life, you're going to love today's conversation with Adam Fight, the head of sport and exercise psychology from precision nutrition. Adam just recently finished his PhD in sport

1:16.1

and exercise psychology. And he's a brilliant man. He's also spent a lot of time coaching at the NFL

1:21.3

level, at the college level. And he's also a dad. So he gets it. He gets how life sometimes gets

1:26.8

in the way. We have a brilliant conversation that's incredibly helpful

1:30.2

around strategies to help change our focus,

1:33.7

to help change the way our mind comes with us throughout the day.

1:38.5

And if you're not already applying our mindfulness practice

1:43.3

and not, if you're going through periods of stress right now like

1:46.6

many of us in the world are create an awareness for yourself to break that habit and hopefully

1:51.6

this podcast can do that for you if you're someone who sometimes goes down those negative

1:55.5

spirals I hope to be an anchor for you of positivity and anchor of hope to realize that you can also live your highest

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