Yo, what's good. This is Rich, and you're listening to The Mental Wealth Show,

a podcast about health, healing, and high performance. And on this episode, I'm going to be talking about the

importance of competition reps and a recent lesson from a session with my therapist. And as always,

my goal with each episode is to leave you with one takeaway that you can start applying in

your life today. So let's dive right into something that's been top of mind lately.

And it is also the rich recommends for this week. And that is to get more competition reps.

So the world masters track and field indoor championships are next week. The thing that I've been

talking about these past few months, that is finally here, and I can't wait to compete.

And one thing about this particular indoor track and field season, I made the intention, or I was more intentional about competing more frequently.

And in past seasons, I think I found myself worrying about getting injured, so I really want to be able to compete at this

meet. So I don't want to do anything too close to it and then risk potentially getting injured

and not being able to compete at that thing. But part of what I realized this year is that I need

more competition reps because in practice, things will go well. I'll feel like I'm doing things

crisp. I'll be able to think a bit

more in my head during each approach, each longer triple jump approach, even when I'm going at full

speed. But when I get to competition, I get on the runway. I know exactly what it is that I want to do.

But after those first few strides, it's like my mind goes blank, or maybe my mind is still doing what it's doing, but my body takes over.

And that's where I revert to old habits.

And I find myself in the sand wondering, man, like, I just worked on this.

Why can't I do this thing that I could do two, three days ago, whatever, or this thing that I was just thinking about, that I

wanted to, that I was focusing on to do literally seconds ago. And part of what I realized with

that is that I need more competition reps. When you're in competition, it's a completely

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