Coaching Archives - Selfmastery

29 Mar What can we learn from the Gamestop saga?

Posted at 19:27h in Coaching, Growth Mindset, How to be a learner?, Life is your Mindset Gym, Mindset by Juan Acevedo

When I recorded this video, I thought the Gamestop saga was kind of done. Man! I was so wrong. It is still going on! Last night when I realized this, I rushed to watch my video again to confirm it still had value. Phew! It...

27 Jan how to build to your 1rm

Posted at 19:39h in Coaching, Fitness, Smart Practices by Juan Acevedo

The Basic Principles Make informed decisions, not predictive decisions. Check your recent records and use your current performance to guide your planning. When making decisions during lifting, don't use the perception of effort to determine what will happen in the next ones. Let your movement and...

25 Jan What is a good workout?

Posted at 14:18h in Coaching, Fitness, Smart Practices, Uncategorized by Juan Acevedo

People often ask me this question. It sounds like such a simple question, right? It is not. It is as if somebody asked you, "what's the perfect dinner?" Everybody will give you a different answer. If you asked me, I'd tell you a Big Mac...

23 Dec Who is talking to you?

Posted at 12:49h in Coaching, Life is your Mindset Gym, Mindset, Train your mind in the gym by Juan Acevedo

This happens to Hector all the time. He is in the middle of a training session and he encounters a place of challenge. If the struggle gets real, his mind starts going. At that point, he looks at me and he will explain he had...

30 Jun Banzo’s sword and metric fixations

Posted at 09:55h in Close the Gap, Coaching, Finding What Works for You, Fitness, How to be a learner?, Mindset, Smart Practices by Juan Acevedo

Are you a victim of your metrics? Are you constantly trying to better your metrics, just to feel frustrated and unaccomplished? I have been there, it is awful. In this post I present to you a set of principles that will help you use metrics...

11 Dec What I have learned from coaching … so far

Posted at 09:55h in Close the Gap, Coaching, Fitness, Mindset by Juan Acevedo

I arrived to coaching after teaching at the college level for fourteen years. I am a voracious learner. I loved (and still do love) universities, and I loved the idea of getting paid to create knowledge and help others learn. However, during all those years...

06 Nov #GOALS

Posted at 09:00h in Coaching, Life is your Mindset Gym, Mindset, Skill Transfer by Juan Acevedo

Years ago, I had one excellent opportunity as a teacher. I was trusted to teach a whole class on the mathematical and literary aspects of Alice in Wonderland. For me, that shit was heaven. Let me put it this way, imagine you are a big...

18 Sep My Bias IN NUTRITION: Mobile Control

Posted at 17:25h in Coaching, Nutrition by Juan Acevedo

In my last post I said that when it came to nutrition stating one’s bias was a token of intellectual honesty I respected. I realized that I have never stated my bias in this blog. I have said it a thousand times when asked by...

15 Aug What I Learned at The 2019 CrossFit Games

Posted at 11:32h in Close the Gap, Coaching, Fitness by Juan Acevedo

Last week I got to spend one week in Madison, Wisconsin, attending the CrossFit Health Conference and the CrossFit Games. It was a very rewarding experience from beginning to end. I got some good stories about meeting “famous” people and their weird unexpected quirks. I...

13 Feb Learning New Skills

Posted at 11:39h in Close the Gap, Coaching, Growth Mindset, How to be a learner?, Mindset by Juan Acevedo

When I start working with a new client , I ask them, how do you think I can help you? The answer is never what a coach would like to hear. I would like to hear some romantic, grandiose version of how awesome coaching can...