True Spirit CrossFit
  • Home
  • Get Started
    • Workout of the Day
  • About Us
    • Blog
    • Our Clients' Stories
    • Newsletters
  • Our Programs
    • Remote Fitness Coaching
    • CrossFit >
      • Workout Of the Day >
        • This Month's Programming
    • OCR Training
    • Endurance Training >
      • Running
      • Cycling
    • Personal Coaching
    • Yoga
  • Contact Us
  • Our Schedule
  • Buy a Gift Card

8/1 Mental Toughness Thursday

7/31/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
The Things They Carried
“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward.” -Rocky
I have been blogging about mental toughness for several years now. The idea was born out of a Check-in with one of our members. I asked what is the number one thing I could do to help and the answer was, "Teach me about mental toughness." 
Mental toughness can be trained, just like endurance, power, speed, strength and flexibility. That's really great news! You can become tougher with simple and effective practices. 
One such practice is gratitude. Keeping a gratitude journal, or just acknowledging the good things in your life, can help keep you focused on what is good in our life. Because I can tell you from experience, it's far too easy to get sucked down the deep dark hole of "everything sucks." One way you can express gratitude is to comment on my Bright Spot Friday post in the Facebook Community Group. I just started posting BSF 2 weeks ago as a way for me to publicly acknowledge my gratitude. I invite you to join me in this weekly practice. 
Another mental toughness practice is to not take anything personally. This is one of the Four Agreements (an OUTSTANDING book my Don Miguel Ruiz) that can help you eliminate so. much. suffering. This agreement reminds us that people treat us as they do because of who THEY are not because of who YOU are. Once you wrap your brain around this, and trust me it takes DAILY PRACTICE, you feel weightless. I wish this for all of you. 
My last mental toughness training tip for today is to dive deep, I mean really deep, into what motivates you. If you want to lose weight, ask yourself why. Then ask yourself why again. Keep asking why until you get to the root (it's down there in the deep dark I promise) of why you want to lose weight. Whenever you set a goal, ask yourself why you want that goal about 5 times. If you're not uncomfortable by the 3rd time you've asked yourself why, keep going. This practice will make you squirm a bit AND THAT'S OK! Going deep into motivation will help keep you on the path to success. 
I have lots of other practical tips for developing mental toughness. You can view them by going into my archives: 
https://www.truespiritcrossfit.com/workout-of-the-day/category/mental-toughness
Click Here for The WOD
Picture

Are you joining us for our August 800g Challenge?
​Be sure to email or direct message Coach Leslie so she can sign you up! 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Special Events 

    Row'd Royalty Jan 15 - Feb 5
    Femme Fatale Week Feb 8 - 13
    The Open March 11-29


    Record your WOD on Beyond the Whiteboard. 
    Do you need CrossFit or yoga gear? Click on the links below to buy through our Just Strong, Reebok, Rogue or Hylete Affiliate share sale programs. These are affiliate links and our gym will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on these links.
    Picture
    Shop Now Rogue Fitness
    Picture
    Check out our Flickr page!

    Categories

    All
    Covid 19
    Covid-19
    Foodie Friday
    Homegrown Paleo
    Mental Toughness
    Mobility Monday
    Myth Busting Monday
    Start Up
    Start-up
    Technique Tuesday
    Transformation Tuesday
    Whole Life Wednesday
    Whoop
    Wod

    Archives

    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014

    RSS Feed

True Spirit CrossFit & Yoga
Call or text us: (406) 404-6FIT
32D Shawnee Way, Bozeman, MT 59715
Email: leslie@truespiritcrossfit.com
CrossFit Journal: The Performance-Based Lifestyle Resource
Picture
  • Home
  • Get Started
    • Workout of the Day
  • About Us
    • Blog
    • Our Clients' Stories
    • Newsletters
  • Our Programs
    • Remote Fitness Coaching
    • CrossFit >
      • Workout Of the Day >
        • This Month's Programming
    • OCR Training
    • Endurance Training >
      • Running
      • Cycling
    • Personal Coaching
    • Yoga
  • Contact Us
  • Our Schedule
  • Buy a Gift Card