This is a cross-post from the Legion Strength & Conditioning podcast - where we get much more into the weeds with CrossFit coaching and competition. Figured this may be interesting to some of the folks here, so bringing this across the divide

Phil Mansfield is a multi-disciplinary coach with a history competing and/or coaching in rugby, cycling, swimming, triathlon and more. In the CrossFit world, he is best known as the coach to multi-time CrossFit Games podium finisher Sara Sigmundsdottir. We got up early - well, early for me (Phil’s internal clock was still on Denmark time) - after Wodapalooza to have a quick chat before Phil did a postmortem on the competition with Sara.

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Show Notes

• [00:14] A proper coffee
• [01:34] What are the consequences of fast tracking an athlete - and having someone who is very good in sport but who has skipped steps during athletic development?
• [06:04] Almost all training can be broken down to either working on skill acquisition or threshold training.
• [09:51] How to find the appropriate amount of variation in skill acquisition training. “Once we say ‘for time’ everything changes.”
• [20:49] How do you convince an athlete to potentially back off and focus on rebuilding if they’ve “skipped steps” in their development?
• [33:18] The value of mindset coaching in competitive sport - and where a lot of people go wrong with their approach to mental toughness.
• [44:04] How do you help athletes create organization and structure for their thoughts? And how do you translate practicing meta-cognition into training and competing?

Links and Resources Mentioned

• Dunning–Kruger Effect
• James Jowsey
• Gary Gray
• Sara Sigmundsdóttir
• Dubai Crossfit Championship
• Wodapalooza