The Freedom Project

Dr. Mike Banna is a GP, a co-host on the Fitness Unfiltered Podcast, and proactively brings much needed balance, truth and realism to topics across medicine and fitness. In this episode, Dr. Mike and myself cover all things mental health. We take a deep dive into mental wellness, mental fitness and mental illness. 

Today I’m going to unveil the four stages I always take athletes through before they have a competition. Naturally, there are some things I add on if required, but these are the essential steps that are always included. Most athletes rely on luck as their pre-lift routine, and luck isn’t a strategy. This is why so many athletes feel like they didn’t give the best they possibly could. They end up d...

As a masters athlete, your approach to training your mindset will be different to non-masters athletes. There are three main considerations I take when working with a masters athlete. Today, I’m going to show you what they are. The mistake I used to make was treating everyone the same in their mindset training. Turns out mindset is one-size-fits-one. Your age plays a factor in that. Today, I’ll ex...

Dan Williams is the founder of "Whatever It Takes" (WIT), a fitness apparel and equipment company based in London, UK. WIT is known for designing and producing high-quality clothing and accessories for athletes and fitness enthusiasts, as well as for its collaborations with popular fitness brands like Nike and Reebok. Dan Williams is also a CrossFit athlete and coach, and he has been involved in t...

McCoy Turner joins Tom on today’s Limitless Athlete Podcast to discuss the exact process he used to train his mindset.

If you look at your training & competing in the same way for the rest of your life, you will not change your mindset. Changing your mindset is about changing your perspective.   Today, I’m going to show you 3 ways you can flip your mindset instantly. Each offers a complete reframe around your mindset & can help you break free from your mindset blocks.   Once you’ve listened to this, you’ll underst...

Today, I’m going to give you the truth. Honestly, this isn’t the sexy stuff. I anticipate this blog will get way fewer views than most of my stuff, but it’s the truth behind strong mindset foundations. If you’re going to push yourself, your mindset better be built on strong foundations. Without strong mindset foundations, you’ll find yourself going round and round in circles; perpetually falling i...

Whether you are proud of the athlete you become or not, depends entirely on your mindset. Not your physical capacity. Think about your mindset as the thing which determines the gap between the level you perform at and your potential. Someone else wrote this better than me: Performance = potential - interference. In my time coaching crossfit athletes mindset, I’ve located five extremely common prob...

I see 7 big reasons CrossFit athletes stay frustrated with poor performances.   If you consistently finish up comps or workouts second guessing your effort. Or look back at months of training and realise you haven’t come as far as you’d like. Or are just frustrated at how slowly you’re improving, this is for you.   Especially if you have a hunch that your body isn’t the limiting factor, it’s proba...

In this podcast I’m going to explain how I debrief CrossFit Open performances with my athletes to help train their mindset.   This ensures no matter the result, they can use The Open to be better than they were before.   Before we get started, I need to reiterate something:   The quickest way to make The Open a complete failure is to learn nothing from it.   No matter if it went well or poorly, yo...

If your mindset is an exhausting emotional rollercoaster, I wrote this for you.   Training like a full time athlete is exhausting enough. Combining it with not being able to live comfortably off sponsorship, running a full time & demanding job, or being a parent is infinitely harder.   You have other exhausting things in your life, and you still have lofty aims.   Yet the constant demands of every...

“I’ve tried to journal, but I don’t know how.” If that sounds like you, this blog post is your answer. I’m going to give you an exact framework of the 4 most common journaling exercises I use with the athletes I work with. If you’re like almost every athlete I have spoken to, you know you should be journaling, but you’re not sure how, you’re not sure it will even benefit you, or you struggle with...

There are two types of comparison. One really is the thief of joy. If you compare in this way, you’ll always find proof you are not good enough. Your workouts will be filled with doubt and negativity. Your progress will stutter to a halt.   Whilst this form of comparison will hurt you, comparison’s lighter side will guide you to better performances. It will highlight your best path to growth. And...

Today, I’m going to show you the anatomy of a confident athlete.   After reading this, you’ll know how to build your confidence and start performing like you believe in yourself.   Because right now, I’m guessing there’s a little too much self-doubt in your performances…   …not enough belief…   …and a whole bunch of unhelpful self-talk.   Which means that progress is slow and training has stopped...

If you struggle with Oly Lifting, brace yourself because the following doesn’t read nicely…       You walk up to the barbell. This lift is always your biggest weakness.       All you want is to succeed for once. But success is unpredictable for you. Will it be a good session or a bad one?       You’ve already visualised missing the lift. The pressure is unbearable. You feel weak. Confidence throug...

If you’re ready to overcome that little voice telling you “you don’t belong…” …you don’t deserve to be here… …you’re not good enough… … then you’re in the right place. Today, I’m going to teach you the 4 steps to eliminate imposter syndrome in the world of competitive fitness. Imposter syndrome is feeling you don’t belong and you’re going to get caught out. If you’re an athlete, that means looking...

Today, I am going to give you the tools you need to (a) not allow injury to destroy your mental health, and (b) use the setback of injury to move toward mindset mastery. If you’re teetering on the edge of (a), with negativity and despair setting in, (b) will seem impossible. I hear you, and I get the magnitude of the task ahead of you. Without a strong mental foundation, your rehab will be slower,...

Today, I’m going to teach you how to leave your training sessions with no regrets. You’ll learn how to go all in on workouts when it really counts and lose that disappointed feeling you get when you hold back. If you’re like a lot of the athletes I speak to who haven’t started mindset training yet, you aren’t leaving the gym knowing you’ve crushed workouts. You probably feel disappointed and frust...

Are the next 12 months going to be more of the same? Another year with great intentions but mediocre results? Or, is this going to be your year? One which counts?   If you’re ready to commit to a new level of athleticism, master your mindset, and build habits which serve you in 2023, this blog is for you.   Yes, you need more balance in 2023 than you had over the past 12 months. But more than that...

Today, I'm bringing you an extract of a webinar with Khan Porter, CrossFit Games athlete, and Rachel Binette, our Head Coach. It focuses on the role identity plays in your mindset, and features Khan's experience and perspective heavily. Enjoy!

Today, I’m going to teach you the right way to view your mindset. And help you stay away from the biggest mistake you could make. Having the wrong view of your mindset means; frustratingly slow progress; a lack of control over your thoughts and emotions; and your mindset always limiting your potential. The biggest reason you struggle to transform your mindset is thinking of it as something that go...

Today, I'm sharing a guest appearance on FitBodySecrets with 5x CrossFit Games athlete, Cheryl Nasso. Cheryl is 4 months through her 6 month mindset transformation with me. In this episode, you learn a bunch about what it's like to work with me and how you can apply mindset training to your own life.

Today, I cover how sleep affects your mindset as an athlete. I cover the theory of sleep, how to get to sleep, and how to set up your sleep for optimal performance.

On today's episode of The Limitless Athlete Podcast, I interview Andrew Tracey, Fitness Editor of Men's Health and isolator of what's truly effective in fitness. We dive deep into the breath and how it links to our mental state. For what it's worth, I believe the breath is one of the greatest tools we have in our mindset arsenal, and mastery of it is a weapon in your fight for mental fitness and h...

Today, I interview Björn, an athlete who has completely flipped his mindset in just a few months. In this episode, I break down exactly how he has done that, and how you can get the same results.