The Mental Game That's Your Biggest Challenge!- The Bledsoe Show- Episode 133
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Adam Chin and Mike Bledsoe dig into what they see happening with Athletes, what they see with our culture and where we have an opportunity to make major upgrades around our mental game in regards to training, nutrition and our relationship with our bodies. They also touch on why they started the program, Enlifted.
Minute Breakdown:
0 - 18 Having different conversations with yourself for progression. Why changing your workouts, eating better, sleeping more, all require behavioral changes. Cognitive fitness as a system to replicate behavior changes over time. Deep dive into what is Cognitive fitness and what are behavior changes.
18 - 29 Restructuring the brain in the positive or in the negative and the effects of stress on the brain. How to reduce the amount of stress on our brain. What causes stress in our lives and what's the story behind this. How your story and the words you use are creating environments for stress to take over.
29 - 42 How not getting enough sleep causes sugar cravings and increased carbs cravings and how this becomes a downward spiral. Why Sleep deprivation and brain injuries have the same symptoms. Importance of proper sleep hygiene, wind down routines at night and creating proper sleep environments.
42 - 50: Value of having a movement practice that is energizing versus exhausting. Knowing the brain and how to change behaviors. What is cognitive fitness for executive functions of the brain? Switching mindsets and the language needed for this.
50 + Handling the unknown. Why inflammation isn't a bad thing. Having a system and what's the system of an Enlifted Athlete? How to get automatic behavior changes from rewiring neurons in the brain. How to change one than more behaviors at a time.
Enlfited.me/shrugged for an assessment and to sign up for 90 coaching program with Mark England and Mike Bledsoe.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we have a really cool guest, my business partner with Enlifted. |
| 0:06.6 | So it's Mr. Adam Chin and we dig into why we started the program, what we see happening |
| 0:15.2 | with athletes, what we see with our culture and where we have an opportunity to make major |
| 0:22.0 | upgrades around our mental game in regard to training, nutrition, our relationship with |
| 0:28.7 | their bodies. |
| 0:30.4 | So if this show really speaks to you, which I know it will, make sure to go over to enlifted.me |
| 0:38.7 | slash shrugged and we have a program starting on May 15. |
| 0:46.1 | So you only have a few days to get over there, get over to enlifted.me slash shrugged. |
| 0:51.0 | It starts off with a little assessment. |
| 0:53.9 | So you get an idea of where we're going with it. |
| 0:56.9 | Do the assessment. |
| 0:58.5 | Check the link. |
| 0:59.5 | We'll email you a link right after you do the assessment that you'll have an opportunity |
| 1:03.8 | to sign up for the course. |
| 1:06.5 | Additionally, if you go over to my Instagram account, you can click the link over there and |
| 1:12.6 | have a direct link to sign up for the coaching program. |
| 1:16.0 | It's Mark England and me presenting 90 days. |
| 1:20.8 | So we have a 90 day process that we're going to take you through. |
| 1:24.6 | And this may be the only time that Mark and I work with athletes and coaches directly, |
| 1:31.8 | the way we're doing it this time. |
| 1:33.9 | So if you want to work with me directly, this is your opportunity enlifted.me slash shrugged. |
| 1:43.0 | Another note I want to make is the Blitzow Show is leaving the shrug collective the very |
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