Our mission is to help you become stronger, more resilient, and energized in mind, body, and spirit.
This month our challenge is to “Win In The Mind.” This past weekend we held an in person workshop where we reviewed and practiced the process.
Part of the process involved work on creating a Physical/Energy Identity as a way to create targets and a corresponding plan to hit those targets.
Part of the process is also creating standards for yourself based on your identity and what you value.
If you value strength and want to become a stronger version of yourself in the future, then our system and methodology of training is designed to help you do so.
Starting with physical strength we want to begin creating some baseline standards to aim for. Our quarterly strength assessments are focused on measuring your progression. You can read more about the rationale on our blog.There currently aren’t any available when it comes to ARX. So, our leaderboard will be our best shot at creating some baseline standards. As with almost any assessment there will be potential for error but I still think it can be useful.
We are in the midst of one of our quarterly assessment months and we are experimenting with this new approach of creating a leaderboard. The intention of this approach is to encourage, motivate, and inspire you on your strength journey. Although we track everyone’s progress on an individual basis, participation on the leaderboard is completely voluntary.
Ultimately, individual improvement is what is most important. However, I have seen the benefits of setting standards to aim for within a community to be a great motivator for that individual improvement.
The intent of our coaching in general and the leaderboard specifically is to both challenge and encourage. Here is a reminder of a few things to focus on when training in general that also apply to the assessment.
1. Maintain connection to your own body and focus on optimal technique and form. Chasing numbers with disconnection to your body and form is not a positive.
2. Focus on your own personal effort. Utilize the efforts of others to motivate and inspire you to see possibilities you may not have considered previously. In Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset,
she says that “Effort is what creates mastery.”
3. Realize it doesn’t matter where you start. It is really about getting a little better each day. Little wins add up to big gains when accumulated consistently over time.
Here are a few other ideas from Carol Dweck’s book that are applicable to our assessment process.
1. Reframe Challenges:
One of the most powerful concepts I have tried to embrace it to simply look at the assessment as data. It provides opportunities for growth because it gives you information that you can then take action upon.
2. You’ve got to learn from mistakes.
A growth mindset doesn’t mean that we never fail or lose. In fact, I would suggest the opposite. If you always win, you are probably not being challenged to be your best.
3. Celebrate Effort, Not Just Outcomes
I mentioned effort above but I think it worth mentioning again. Effort is something we can all get better at and if we use the outcomes to give us data and feedback then we can insure that we are applying the effort in the most optimal way. This is a secret to success.