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your responses, I develop your mental game
plan. I identify your key mental coaching
areas and provide you with reading and
worksheets that target those areas. Phone
or video follow-ups are done to keep you
accountable and on track as well as to
target any ‘hiccups’.
attach your self-worth to how you place in
a competition?
How many bodybuilders do you know
that hire a mental game coach? Athletes
who train for the Olympics do, so why
not bodybuilders? The answer is because
there aren’t many Mental Game Coaching
Professionals (MGCPs) around and
bodybuilders do not have the information
about how MGCPs can help them.
Mental Game coaching provides specific
strategies in a specific format that is
custom tailored to a specific bodybuilder’s
challenges. How do you know what
challenges you have? As an MGCP, I provide
and you complete the AMAP (Athlete’s
Mental Aptitude Profile). Once I receive
your completed responses, and based on
Think of the mind muscle connection
when training the muscle. How do you
train the mind? Like a muscle, it takes
guided practice by incorporating mental
focus in your routines. Such examples
address learning how to do the following:
increasing self-confidence, letting go of
mistakes, increasing motivation, expecting
the unexpected (especially on show day:
this helped me when I competed at the
Arnold’s not knowing 24 hours before
the show whether the show would go
on and later on competing without an
audience), increasing focus, feeling more
excited rather than a nervous wreck
on show day, avoiding over analyzing
mistakes, technique, weak body parts, etc.,
addressing the perception that post-injury
you cannot perform the way you did preinjury
even when recovered, managing
expectations, processing disappointments
from past undesired placing, and so on.
Whether it’s low carbs, life/personal stresses,
getting too much in your head, or going
off the diet/training plan, mental training
gets you to refocus and practice your
new found skills allowing you to be more
confident, focus better, stay composed
under pressure, practice more efficiently
and overall performance enhancement.
Contact me at (416) 805-6155 when you are
ready to get your mental game on and gain
a mental edge on your competition.
[email protected]
Lesley
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