In episode 4, Coach Paul and Coach Ryan are joined by guest, Carlos Reyes. Carlos is an elite powerlifter, former pro-Strongman, and Renaissance Periodization sponsored athlete. Carlos has totaled 2050 lbs in sleeves at the 242 lb weight class while continuing to excel in his career as a firefighter.
In this episode, Carlos talks about how he got started with strength training and how he got to where he is today. He is someone who has a growth mindset and truly enjoys the process of reaching his goals. Carlos believes a strong mindset is the key to success and we dive deep into that topic. In this episode we discuss:
- Establishing a sustainable, holistic mindset towards training, competition and life
- What are we really in control of as athletes? And what should we not concern ourselves with?
- Exploiting the training, nutritional, recovery, and conditioning variables that give maximum return on investment
- What stress, pain, and lifestyle management modalities maximize recovery
- The reality of hitting multi month and multi year plateaus and how to manage them
- Using positive self speech when referencing our own training
- Which mental approaches yield the best results on meet day, and how to control our competitive energy through finding our individualized “flow state”
- Technique - when should we fix one variable at a time versus completely overhauling it? When does technique not really matter?
- What keeps athletes motivated and consistent for the long haul
- How to fluidly shift perspectives to achieve ideal competitive outcomes
- What beginners, intermediates, and advanced lifters get wrong when establishing their priorities as athletes
- Plus some background on Carlos Reyes as an athlete and first responder, and how those experiences have shaped his training, nutritional and conditioning philosophies.
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