How do you go from being the worst kid on the team to a 2018 Olympic silver medalist and two time XGames Gold medalist? Freestyle skier Alex Ferreira tells Joe De Sena and Johnny Waite the secret: unfaltering dedication, relentless training, infinite repetitive practice and truly believing in yourself are the keys! Alex walks us through how his visualization process, it includes running every turn and every second of his runs 100's of times through his mind before he even puts his skis on. Alex takes us right to the start of his Olympic run, drops in, and takes us on a mental journey of those glorious Olympic runs. Everyone in the room was on the edge of their seats, we felt as if we were peering through his own goggles. You'll feel the snow on your own skin!

A truly humble, extraordinary and eloquent athlete, Alex believes that when you put in every single ounce of energy: love, heart, passion into what you're doing and don't leave a single thing on the table... that's when you can sleep easy at night. Believe in what you are doing and Get It Done!

LESSONS

1. Believe in what your doing
2. Do the hard work and be positive
3. Be humble and when it's time to compete be ruthless
4. Do right by yourself
5. Visualize successful outcomes
6. 100x repetition is key
7. Your either ready or your not
8. Don't take anything to seriously or personally
9. Enjoy every second
10. Put EVERYTHING you've got into your goal
11. Train as if you were an Olympian
12. Believe in yourself until the end!
13. You learn more from failure than success
14. Once you start winning the politics go away
15. Read as much as you can

LINKS

More information about USANA https://www.usana.com/

More about Alex https://alexferreiraski.com

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TIME STAMPS

0:00 Joe introduces gold medalist Alex Ferreira

1:50 Interview begins with Johnny and Alex

2:30 The journey to become a professional halfpipe skier

4:15 It's all about hard work and your mentality

5:15 Being humble and being ruthless

6:15 Practicing: visualization and repetition 100's of times

7:45 Perfecting multiple tricks over many years to win the contest

8:45 The moment at the gate when your either ready or not

10:20 Eating, sleeping, training: doing everything he can to prepare

11:11 Taking us step-by-step to the lead up to his Olympic run

13:00 Run one: everything comes down to this moment

14:45 Run two

15:55 Run three- flow state

16:40 Putting it ALL on the table

16:55 USANA.com break

18:15 Joe jumps into the interview

19:30 Learning more from failure than success

21:20 Once you start winning all the politics go away

23:00 Filling his intellectual capacity

25:00 Hot & cold therapy

26:30 Who you are is what you eat

28:55 Joe debriefs what he learned from Alex

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CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.

Host: Joe De Sena, Dr. Johnny Waite and Sefra Alexandra

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Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress

Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty

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