The Freedom Project

Special Forces veteran, and GORUCK founder, Jason McCarthy joins Tom on today's episode. Jason has created a brilliant community around the pursuit of the most simple but effective exercise there is: carrying large loads a long way. Call it rucking, yomping, or tabbing, it works. Plus, it had hugely beneficial effects on your mindset too. This is just part of what Jason and Tom explore in this episode. They also discuss Jason's life as a Green Beret and his transition out of the military, the benefits of suffering, and the massively inspiring Chad workout as well as the charitable effort behind it.

Today on The Debrief, Coaches Tom and Rachel discuss their own mental health struggles within CrossFit and training. They talk eating disorders, anxiety, and more besides.

Today, Tom speaks to Niki Brazier, about a variety of mental health challenges. In particular, they touch on postnatal anxiety, body image challenges, and intrusive thoughts. Niki is a familiar face to most in the world of CrossFit as she's a reporter at The CrossFit Games and is a regular guest on many shows and podcasts. There's value in this show even if giving birth isn't in your immediate agenda because mental health affects us all. What I love about how Niki talks is how honest and open she is, but without an ounce of shame or victimhood. We also discuss journaling practises, body image and share weird compulsive tendencies.

Today on The Debrief - partner episode of the Limitless Athlete Podcast - Tom & Rachel guide you in how to stop compulsive thoughts and actions. It's vital you can get out of those mental ruts that cause you to plateau your growth. In this episode, you can expect to learn: Why you perform numbing behaviours What activities will help you mentally recover Building mindfulness in being an athlete How to stop leaderboarding  

Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, Coach Tom speaks to psychiatrist and author, Dr. Anna Lembke, about the role of dopamine and how to stop it ruining your progress as an athlete. There's two main topics of conversation here: leaderboarding, and phone addiction. These are the two forms of addiction which form the greatest destructive habits to athletes like yourself. Dopamine is an extremely powerful neurotransmitter and plays a huge role in addictive behaviours and emotional patterns. Questions we'll answer: Why are you addicted to the leaderboard even though it makes you feel crap? How do you learn to put your phone down? What role does dopamine play in your mental health?

Today on the Debrief, Coaches Rachel and Tom will be dropping tips on how to improve your mood, energy and drive through mindset training. They'll help you from both a mindset and a physical perspective to stop having to drag yourself to the gym. They'll be drawing on the episode they recorded with Richard Aceves of StrongFit and Movement Ayahuasca. If you want to listen to that episode, that will prep you for this episode, but you can listen to this individually too. Questions Tom and Rachel will answer include: What kind of rest is good and bad for your recovery? How can you reserve energy? How do you stop making decisions which drain your energy?

The body and the mind are not two separate things. Your mind influences your body and your body influences your mind. In today's show with Richard Aceves, we go into this in detail. Can your mentality be affected by your left pec? How does being in fight or flight change your training? What role does nutrition play on your mood. These are all discussed in today's podcast with the wonderful, Richard Aceves

Today on the Limitless Athlete, Rachel and Tom discuss 7 strategies you can use to increase your mental fortitude.

Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, you'll be listening to a conversation between myself and Stoic author/commentator, William B. Irvine. Stoicism is an essential tool I deploy every single day in every area of my life and training is no different. I found Bill through Sam Harris' app, Waking Up, and found his book The Stoic Challenge exceptionally helpful. So why are we exploring Stoicism (philosophy) when we're discussing mindset and athleticism? First, most athletes are lacking mental toughness & Stoicism provides an antidote to that. Second, this will get you taking action on success, not just wishing it. Additionally, it will teach you an essential skill called Framing. We also discuss Overcoming setbacks Adding meaning to suffering Anger and how it will destroy your gains When negative emotions stopped being helpful And maybe most importantly: Why failing is the missing ingredient in your success

Today, Rachel Binette & Tom Foxley discuss the mindset required for longer events. If you struggle with endurance style workouts, end up cherry picking shorter workouts, experience negative self-talk in longer events, or struggle when you get 4/5 through a longer WOD, this episode is for you. We draw heavily from the episode with Chris Hinshaw (episode 10 of the Limitless Athlete Podcast)