111: Logan Christopher: Flow State Athletic Performance with Anchors, Visualization and Hypnosis | Sponsored by SimpliFaster

Today’s podcast features Logan Christopher of Legendary Strength and Lost Empire Herbs. Logan Christopher is a strongman, entrepreneur and mental training expert from Santa Cruz, CA. Logan is regarded as an expert in the mental performance field, and he has in depth expertise as an NLP Master Practitioner and certified hypnotist. In the last 6 months, I’ve begun to understand that an area I wanted this podcast to reach that often remains untapped and unknown is in the sports (and human) psychology fields. We tend to turn the basic means of strength building over and over again in our heads without taking a deeper look at all the other influencers of a training program, namely the mental aspects. Since the nervous system drives all major athletic adaptation, and the mind is the seat of the nervous system, I’ve made a commitment to getting more sport psychology specialists on the show. Like Logan says early on in this episode, we often credit winning and losing as being in the mind, but we rarely make any sort of coordinated effort to improve our mental abilities, leaving these words more hollow than anything. In this episode with Logan, we dig into the “big three” structured mental training concepts that can be useful in any athletic pursuit (and even outside athletics), which are visualization, hypnosis and anchors. Having a better understanding of these three mechanisms can give any coach or athlete more tools by which to improve their performance, and realize their fullest potential. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster.com, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. View more show notes at Just-fly-sports.com/podcast-111-logan-christopher/