The Gym as Your Mindset Sandbox Archives

10 Jul Are you training your mindset?

Posted at 18:06h in Life is your Mindset Gym, Mindset, Science, The Gym as Your Mindset Sandbox, Train your mind in the gym, Training by Juan Acevedo

Both of my athletes Francy and Henrick agree with me that mindset is important when it comes to athletic performance. This is unusual because they mostly think I am full of shit. Truth is most people know that what you think greatly determines how you...

28 Jun What is Cognitive Reframing and how to use in training

Posted at 16:37h in Growth Mindset, Mindset, The Gym as Your Mindset Sandbox, Train your mind in the gym by Juan Acevedo

Our identities are made of narratives. We cannot escape that. But we get to chose. Tear down the unproductive ones. Create ones that keep you growing. ...

29 May Henrick’s Rower and Results Oriented Mindsets

Posted at 15:34h in Fitness, Mindset, The Gym as Your Mindset Sandbox, Train your mind in the gym by Juan Acevedo

The first time I explained to one of my male athletes that the Concept2 rower was made with a specific body type in mind it totally backfired. Henrick was complaining to me about the size of his arms, telling me it made doing pull ups...

15 May Francy’s Rower and Outcome Oriented Mindsets

Posted at 16:05h in Fitness, Mindset, The Gym as Your Mindset Sandbox, Train your mind in the gym by Juan Acevedo

“How is that working for you?” is a rhetorical tool I use with a lot of my athletes. Whether we are talking about a nutritional habit, a workout strategy, or a marital problem, I have found it to be very productive. This is because it...

04 Mar Handstands and balance in life

Posted at 13:54h in Fitness, Skill Transfer, The Gym as Your Mindset Sandbox by Juan Acevedo

What you practice in your training, should have more transfer to life than good looks and bragging rights....

05 Dec Slay you should and Slay you must

Posted at 18:23h in Close the Gap, Fitness, Smart Practices, The Gym as Your Mindset Sandbox by Juan Acevedo

There is this feeling you get when you go to the gym and everything goes your way. I call it The Slayer, because it feels as if Beyonce did a Metal Song: fucking EPIC. You get it in one of those days when the warm...

24 Oct Training Hard

Posted at 16:09h in Fitness, Smart Practices, The Gym as Your Mindset Sandbox by Juan Acevedo

We all love to train hard. We love the feeling of working our asses off, yet I think training hard, truly training hard, is greatly misunderstood. Hours of media featuring Energy Drinks, Athletic Shoes, and awesome-sports-movies-action-montages has lead us to confuse training hard with intensity....

27 Aug Slay your inner troll!

Posted at 12:53h in Mindset, The Gym as Your Mindset Sandbox, Train your mind in the gym by Juan Acevedo

Trolls suck, and even though they are an Internet creation they are pretty much everywhere IRL too. Yes, they might be called douche bags, and they are not constrained by gender, race, or religion. The only thing that unifies them is that they are just...