The Mindset of a Champion with Matt Fitzgerald - Ep. 133

The Michael Caz Podcast

Michael Cazayoux

Health & Fitness, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest is Matt Fitzgerald, the author of many, many books including How Bad Do You Want It and The Endurance Diet. He is also a runner and a coach. In our conversation today, we dive into some of the topics presented in How Bad Do You Want It and discuss how mindset and mental fitness can push us to new peaks. Matt offers practical advice on how to use framing to put you in the right mindset no matter what kind of pressure you’re under as well as what daily practices you can do to get started today.

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Topics of discussion:

[1:25] Introducing Matt Fitzgerald — author of How Bad Do You Want It.

[2:15] How does Matt approach his goals and achieve them?

[5:45] Matt offers suggestions on how to find and cultivate passion.

[11:20] In the book, How Bad Do You Want It, Matt talks about the differences between mental toughness vs. mental fitness. How does the attitude you have in life affect this?

[15:30] You need to have intent. That’s step one to anything you do in life.

[18:35] What is ‘perceived exertion’?

[23:50] How to train for the ability to overcome our inhibitions.

[27:15] Matt explains how body language can affect perceived exertion.

[30:25] Best practices on ways to develop a positive relationship with failure.

[34:10] Matt offers tips to help people calm down and re-focus when they’re feeling a lot of pressure.

[37:35] When we’re in our own head, that’s when our mind messes with our mechanics.

[41:35] What are some of the best daily practices people can adopt to improve their mindset?

[53:10] Connecting with Matt.

Links:

Matt Fitzgerald

Matt Fitzgerald on Facebook

@mattfitwriter on Twitter

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Mike Kaju, and you're listening to the Brute Strength Podcast.
0:04.0	This week's guest is Matt Fitzgerald.
0:07.0	Matt is an author of many, many books. He's a runner. He's a coach. He's a scientist of sorts and on this show we talk all about mindset one of the one of the main topics of his books is all about the mindset of a champion or competitor's mindset and he's got this
0:26.1	great book called How Bad Do You Want It? And so we we dive into some of the big
0:31.4	topics in that book and some of the big topics in that book.
0:34.2	And one of the main things is this idea
0:36.9	that if you have two athletes with the exact same physical capabilities the one with the greater mental fitness is going to prevail and
0:48.9	that's not a that's not a real new concept to any of you, but I've noticed that as even though this topic
0:56.9	has become so much more popular over the past few years, so many of you still don't know
1:01.5	how to put it into practice.
1:02.9	And so my goal with this show was to gain some knowledge
1:08.4	from this expert on mindset of exactly
1:11.3	how you can practice and train your mind and that's exactly what we do.
1:16.2	We talk about things like perceived exertion and relationship with failure and lots of other
1:22.4	really cool things.
1:23.6	I hope you enjoy this show as much as I did.
1:26.6	What's up, Matt?
1:27.6	I'm really excited to do this interview with you, man.
1:31.2	As I was just telling you, during during my research I started to get really
1:34.4	fired up about it because one of the things you're most passionate about is
1:38.5	mindset which is one of my biggest passions in life as well. So you know I know that you and I can go in a
1:46.2	million different directions given your expertise but selfishly I'm gonna I'm
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