The Freedom Project

Today on The Debrief, Coaches Tom and Rachel discuss their own mental health struggles within CrossFit and training. They talk eating disorders, anxiety, and more besides.

Today, Tom speaks to Niki Brazier, about a variety of mental health challenges. In particular, they touch on postnatal anxiety, body image challenges, and intrusive thoughts. Niki is a familiar face to most in the world of CrossFit as she's a reporter at The CrossFit Games and is a regular guest on many shows and podcasts. There's value in this show even if giving birth isn't in your immediate age...

Today on The Debrief - partner episode of the Limitless Athlete Podcast - Tom & Rachel guide you in how to stop compulsive thoughts and actions. It's vital you can get out of those mental ruts that cause you to plateau your growth. In this episode, you can expect to learn: Why you perform numbing behaviours What activities will help you mentally recover Building mindfulness in being an athlete How...

Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, Coach Tom speaks to psychiatrist and author, Dr. Anna Lembke, about the role of dopamine and how to stop it ruining your progress as an athlete. There's two main topics of conversation here: leaderboarding, and phone addiction. These are the two forms of addiction which form the greatest destructive habits to athletes like yourself. Dopamine is an extremely...

Today on the Debrief, Coaches Rachel and Tom will be dropping tips on how to improve your mood, energy and drive through mindset training. They'll help you from both a mindset and a physical perspective to stop having to drag yourself to the gym. They'll be drawing on the episode they recorded with Richard Aceves of StrongFit and Movement Ayahuasca. If you want to listen to that episode, that will...

The body and the mind are not two separate things. Your mind influences your body and your body influences your mind. In today's show with Richard Aceves, we go into this in detail. Can your mentality be affected by your left pec? How does being in fight or flight change your training? What role does nutrition play on your mood. These are all discussed in today's podcast with the wonderful, Richar...

Today on the Limitless Athlete, Rachel and Tom discuss 7 strategies you can use to increase your mental fortitude.

Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, you'll be listening to a conversation between myself and Stoic author/commentator, William B. Irvine. Stoicism is an essential tool I deploy every single day in every area of my life and training is no different. I found Bill through Sam Harris' app, Waking Up, and found his book The Stoic Challenge exceptionally helpful. So why are we exploring Stoicism (ph...

Today, Rachel Binette & Tom Foxley discuss the mindset required for longer events. If you struggle with endurance style workouts, end up cherry picking shorter workouts, experience negative self-talk in longer events, or struggle when you get 4/5 through a longer WOD, this episode is for you. We draw heavily from the episode with Chris Hinshaw (episode 10 of the Limitless Athlete Podcast)

This episode is simply dripping with stories about how Chris has helped train the minds of some of CrossFit's greatest athletes. Mat Fraser, Rich Froning, Julie Foucher, Sara Sigmundsdottir, Kara Webb, Jason Hopper and many more feature in today's show. Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, you’ll be listening to a conversation between aerobic coach to the biggest names in CrossFit, Chris Hinsha...

Today, we search for nuance on subjects which caused some trouble to our previous guest, Khan Porter. We go into depth on whose opinions you should actually listen to, the pillars of mental health, and how to apply this to your athletic pursuit. Especially when you become wrapped up in your external results.

Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, you’ll be listening to a conversation between multiple time CrossFit Games athlete, Khan Porter and myself. Khan has always been on my radar since I found CrossFit. Of course, he was a great athlete, but I sensed there was a depth to him you don’t often find. And sure enough,  it’s his conversations around mental health which made him a must feature guest on...

Today, Coach Rachel and Coach Tom pull out the key extracts from Alison Scudds's appearance on The Limitless Athlete Podcast. Our biggest focus in this show is bringing to light the process Alison has used to train her mind - the Mindset Rx'd Method

Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, you’ll be listening to a conversation between CrossFit Athlete Alison Scudds, and myself. Alison is another brilliant example of an athlete who on one hand has all the mindset advantages handed down to her - supportive environment, parents who taught her to push hard whilst being kind to herself, supportive yet encouraging community - yet has chosen to work...

Today, Coach Rachel and Coach Tom pull out the key extracts from Justin LoFranco's appearance on The Limitless Athlete Podcast. Most of our time is spent on how to break through our barriers and find new levels of performance in doing so.

Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, you’ll be listening to a conversation between founder of the Morning Chalk Up, Justin LoFranco AKA J-Lo, and myself.   The biggest lesson I think the average person can learn from this is how Justin goes out of his way to expose himself to challenge, rather than insulating himself from difficulty.   One certainty of life is that you are going to encounter ch...

You’re listening to The Debrief where myself and Rachel Binette, our Head Coach, will discuss the key lessons and insights gleaned from the Limitless Athlete Podcast interview with Zack George. Today's Topics: How to use visualisation in to help your mindset training Using goal boards and goal setting Body image in CrossFit You can listen to this show in isolation, as a kind of distillation of the...

Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, you’ll be listening to a conversation between fittest man in the UK, Zack George, and Tom Foxley Zack has an incredible journey of not only physical change, but mindset growth too. As you’ll hear, Zack was overweight as a child, subsisting on a diet comprised mainly of junk food. However, Zack chose the route of growth and challenge in his journey from overw...

In today's episode, Coaches Tom and Rachel discuss the Limitless Athlete Podcast with Sean Woodland and pull out the ways you can apply this to your own training and life. In particular, they discuss: Gratitude and how to create more of it The full tool box of mindset tools The balance of chaos and order

Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, I’m interviewing voice of The CrossFit Games and the Talking Elite Fitness Podcast, Sean Woodland. Sean, through his work at The Games, has a unique insight into the best athletes in the world. He has a perspective that few of us will ever see - especially with his experience. Some of the things he sees which usually goes unnoticed, are the moments between e...

In today's episode, Coaches Tom and Rachel discuss the Limitless Athlete Podcast with Carl Paoli and pull out the ways you can apply this to your own training and life. In particular, they discuss: The role of authenticity in being an athlete How to start your journaling practise How coaches can develop their mindset And much more besides

Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, Carl Paoli discusses how you can drop the mindset which is limiting you. This mindset is wrapped up in your identity, and Carl shares how we can peel that back to reveal our best self. We also discuss: Why great performances aren’t forced Creating distance from your emotions Visualisation and effective habits How to use creativity Leaning into authenticity A...

In today's episode, Coaches Tom and Rachel discuss the Limitless Athlete Podcast with Matt Fitzgerald and pull out the ways you can apply this to your own training and life. Topics include: The role of identity in training How to seek out hardship The value of 'Effort Over Outcome' And so much more For more mindset training resources, visit www.mindsetrxd.com or www.instagram.com/mindsetrxd  

Today on the Limitless Athlete Podcast, Coach Tom is joined by author and celebrated coach, Matt Fitzgerald. The main lesson today is that a huge part of having a great mindset lies in being able to see the world clearly... all will be explained in today's episode. Topics also covered include: What is perceived effort and why does it play such a major role in training and competition? The techniqu...

In today's episode, Coaches Tom and Rachel discuss the Limitless Athlete Podcast with Adam Neiffer and pull out the ways you can apply this to your own training and life. Topics include: The value of *that* letter Coach Ed & his positive coaching style How 'belonging' is such a fundamental challenge for CrossFit athletes Living up to our values Visit www.mindsetrxd.com or www.instagram.com/mindset...