Train Your Mind To Achieve Anything | Rich Froning

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0:49How important is pain for everyone in the world to experience on a daily or weekly basis? When you grow, man, you never grow and you never move forward when you're comfortable. As bad as it sounds, you got to go out and you got to seek that stuff. You have to. That's when you get better and that's when you grow, I think. It's the same as physically. You know, like when it hurts, that's when you know something good is happening. So you almost embrace that where it's like, this is going to hurt. But I know on the other side, I'm going to come out better. And it's the same way mentally. It's like if you're not pushing, you're not growing.

1:21You're not going to enjoy pain. Like, let's be honest. You know, we talk about like some of the most miserable experiences when you're done with it. You're like, that was awesome. You know, like you go out and seek these like challenges. I never want to do this again. In the middle of it, you're like, you know, I went on this elk hunting trip for six days. And for the first three days, it was awesome. The fourth day, downhill. We didn't see any elk. I hiked 60 miles in six days, like sunup to sundown, going through the woods. And I'm like, this is miserable. Like, I hate this. And then I got done.

1:47I'm like, I can't wait to do that again. You know, like, you're just like, it's sick and it's twisted. But you know, like, as long as it's productive pain, like there's certain things that aren't productive. but as long as it's something good, you know on the other side you're going to come out better. And I think, I don't know, it's hard for me sometimes to relate to other people that are like, how do you get there that you want to compete or you want to go to that pain? I'm like, how do you not want to? How do you not see the benefit of it? It's hard sometimes for me to like talk to people that don't get that.

2:12It's not even going to want to win that bet. I don't want to lose. I don't want to make an idiot of myself. Like I said, it could be just us two and nobody else could be watching, but it still just drives me crazy. I think that was one thing that I kind of figured out a lot earlier than people was, you know everybody was like well when I go out there I compete against myself and I just do the best that I can and blah blah blah and all this you know the stuff that people want to tell themselves when they don't want to push hard or don't want to take credit for their you know something happening so what I learned was you can watch people and watch you know hey I need to stay ahead of so and so luckily for us you kind of knew what lane you were in is what place you were in and so you could figure out all right so and so is maybe better at this but if I'm you know within in either a rep or two or a person or two of them, I can make up points or not lose too many points, and then I can get ahead of them in another event.

2:58And so I kind of learned that it is a sport. Like, as much as, you know, it's just working out, there is some strategy to it. You're trying to game things, and you're trying to like, all right, this movement is kind of a rest for me, so I can kind of push here, or, you know, this movement's going to be a little bit harder, so I need to slow down, and gaming workouts. And that was something, I think, training so much and doing so many different things that I did, and the volume that I did, that I learned, you know, I'd done certain combinations of movements. They may not have done the exact workout, but I knew how they kind of played off of each other.

3:27I'd gotten 27th on a pool event. I got second on a rowing event. It was the half marathon, but you started out with a 2K sprint, which was the worst thing ever. So I went 27th, second, seventh, I think, on the marathon, and then I went seventh, I think, on the burden run. Well, Kalipa had went first, first, first, first. So he had, like, a huge lead, and I'm in a horrible mood. my wife comes up and we're kind of sitting in the athlete area between events and she's like you don't look like you're having fun i was like i'm not having fun i mean like i was probably in like third or fourth at the time this is awful like whatever she's like go get your stuff what do you mean get my stuff she's like if you're not having fun we need to go home and i was like what are you talking about like i'm gonna go get my stuff leave this like i trained all year for this she's like you do the best when you have fun you try to have as much fun as you can and over the years you learned that when I first started competing like a month out like my nerves would start getting me you know like man you know butterflies and all that well then you know after a year or two it was like two weeks out then it would start and then it was like a week out now it's like before yeah now it's like the event the event of then I start getting a little nervous still you know everybody's like you still get nervous I'm like heck yeah I still get nervous I think when you stop getting nervous it's not fun anymore you know that's true being a competitor and you you know you have that like before it you know you have all this build up but then literally as soon as 3-2-1-go happens, it's just like everything goes away.

4:44You know, you talk about flow or whatever it is, but it literally, like, I can't tell you any music that's played during events. You can't hear any of the cheers. You can't hear any of that stuff. You're just kind of in it and you just kind of go through it. It's hard to explain, you know, it's just like, what makes you so competitive? I'm like, I don't know. It just, it is, it's just something that you just get into and you don't really think about those things. Yeah, the workout sucks and it's going to hurt. And, you know, for a long time, you know, like I said, I have those certain things that go through my head, you know, I'd write Bible verses on my shoes and think about, you know, like the crucifixion of Christ.

5:13And those were the things early that really got me. But then it's just like, after you've done it for so long, it's just, it's what you do. You know, it's like, you just get into that space and you get in that zone and it's just, it's go. You've already experienced the pain so much. You're like, I know it's going to suck. Yeah, it's going to hurt. You know, it's just like, when is it going to hurt? You know, like most of the time you're like, all right, this workout's going to take 10, 15 minutes, but you know, the pain is really going to set in about minute, nine minutes, you know, depending on whatever the workout is, but you've almost become not numb to the pain because it still hurts, but you've almost like embraced that pain and you just know this is what it is.

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