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August 16, 2024 27 mins

How much time have you spent working on the mental side of your Jiu-Jitsu game? Do you have practices in place to strengthen your mind and keep your focus?

"The Mental Edge: Maximize Your Sports Potential with the Mind-Body Connection" by Kenneth Baum and Richard Trubo is the book that has inspired this episode. 

Coach Rachel Casias recommended this book, so of course, we’re reading it! In this episode and the next, we’ll share what we’ve learned and how we’re applying it to our Jiu-Jitsu and life off the mat. 

The Chapter Highlight Reel

(00:00) Why We Are Reading The Mental Game: Maximizing Your Sports Potential with the Mind-Body Connection (04:23) How to reframe your self-talk after a bad day on the mat (09:36) Why the imagination is more powerful than the will (14:31) How you can control the meaning you give an event (16:14) The statistic that is getting Jen to write her goals down (19:22) The power of practicing like you play (24:16) An exercise to get you working on your self talk

 

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