Ben Bergeron (#1 CrossFit Trainer) HOW you CAN build your mind and body to take on 2024 (E233)
Jan 1, 2024
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Renowned CrossFit coach Ben Bergeron discusses mindset, small changes for big results, emotional responses triggering physiological changes, our inner voice as critic or coach, and a toolset of ideas and actions for renewed purpose in the new year.
Taking control of your life is crucial for personal change and high performance.
Focusing on the process rather than the end result helps build discipline, commitment, and character.
Consistently showing up and doing the work is the most impactful action towards achieving goals.
Deep dives
The Importance of Taking Control of Your Life
The foundational aspect of personal change is taking control of your life. By recognizing that you have the power to respond to circumstances and not be a victim, you can achieve high performance. This starts with developing character traits like discipline, commitment, and fortitude. Rather than focusing on external factors, focus on how you respond to challenges and hardships.
Setting Process-Oriented Goals Rather Than Outcome Goals
Instead of setting time-bound and specific goals, focus on defining the process that will help you achieve your desired outcome. This means identifying the actions and behaviors needed to reach your goal. By shifting your mindset to focus on the process rather than the end result, you can build discipline, commitment, and character. This approach also helps you navigate obstacles and missteps along the way.
Recognizing the Power of Repetition and Consistency
Repetition is key to making positive changes in your life. By consistently showing up and not complaining, you cultivate discipline and resilience. Start by choosing one thing you can do every day, whether it's going to the gym, reading, meditating, or any other form of self-improvement. Remember that the hardest thing to do is to show up and do the work, but it is also the most impactful action you can take towards achieving your goals.
Understanding the Mind-Body Connection
Our thoughts, whether conscious or subconscious, can lead to emotional and physiological changes in our bodies. Chronic exposure to stress can result in illness. Recognizing the cycle of thoughts, emotions, and physical changes can help us respond in a more productive way.
Overcoming Mental Blocks and Building Discipline
By becoming aware of our critical thoughts and reframing them, we can give our positive inner voice, the coach, a stronger presence. Focusing on breath and practicing deep, slow breathing can help lower stress and improve focus. Making non-judgmental decisions, embracing the hard tasks, and identifying what is truly important can lead to consistent actions and a high-performance life.
Ben Bergeron is a trainer of multiple CrossFit champions and the man behind fitness app, CompTrain, as well as the author of the book, ‘Chasing Excellence’. He is one of the most successful CrossFit coaches of all time, having quit his job in finance to work with athletes.
In this episode he discusses the mindset that creates champions, how small changes can create big results, and where people often go wrong on their journey towards fitness. Ben explores how out emotional responses can trigger physiological changes in the body, and how through awareness, we can have increased agency over these reactions. He also shares the idea of our inner voice and how this can take on the role of critic or coach at different times.
Ben provides a toolset of ideas, practises and actions to move into the new year with renewed purpose.
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