Can You Teach Mental Toughness? | Jordan Wallace, Paul Warrior & Tim Briggs

A fond welcome back to UK CrossFit coaches, nutrionists & athletes, Jordan Wallace, Paul Warrior and Tim Briggs. This week, I wanted to dissect their views on mindset in sport. An athlete's performance in CrossFit, Powerlifting, Endurance Racing and many pursuits is heavily mediated by their mental game, but can you teach it? Or is mental toughness an innate skill you either have or you don't? As usual we got distracted and wildly careered off-topic. Expect to hear some very contrasting views on mindset for sports, their frank & honest feedback after the 2018 CrossFit Regionals, and what their opinions are on Adam Collard's performance on Love Island. Find out more: https://www.ReebokCrossFitTyneside.com https://www.WarriorProgramming.com https://www.WeDominateNutrition.com - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/modern-wisdom/id1347973549 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XrOqvxlqQI6bmdYHuIVnr?si=iUpczE97SJqe1kNdYBipnw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - I want to hear from you!! Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

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Jul 2, 20181h 28mWatch on YouTube ↗

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0:00 – 15:00
... like run and…
1. JWJordan Wallace
  ... like run and they'll j- they'll go like this. They'll go ... I have to be careful I don't poo here but ... but ... (laughs) Parkour.
2. PWPaul Warrior
  Have you got your squirts?
3. JWJordan Wallace
  Still not good, mate. Still not good.
4. CWChris Williamson
  No, he's had, he's had two-
5. JWJordan Wallace
  Two Sorens, first squirt of the day.
6. CWChris Williamson
  ... two lunch box sized Sorens wearing them.
7. PWPaul Warrior
  You can wear the blood and semen pants at Valhalla.
8. JWJordan Wallace
  Ah, I don't need blood and semen.
9. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs) You brought the blood and semen pants?
10. PWPaul Warrior
  (laughs)
11. CWChris Williamson
  You're not getting them on?
12. JWJordan Wallace
  Get them on.
13. CWChris Williamson
  £357 worth of pants?
14. PWPaul Warrior
  156 pounds these.
15. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
16. PWPaul Warrior
  It's 300 quid, the pair.
17. JWJordan Wallace
  Mate, they are, they are shite them, like.
18. TBTim Briggs
  They are.
19. CWChris Williamson
  Catastrophic, aren't they?
20. PWPaul Warrior
  They are.
21. JWJordan Wallace
  They're so bad.
22. TBTim Briggs
  What, who actually makes them?
23. PWPaul Warrior
  Battles Supreme.
24. TBTim Briggs
  No, but like who-
25. CWChris Williamson
  Whose semen is it?
26. TBTim Briggs
  No, who makes the clothes? Do you know? Like did it-
27. PWPaul Warrior
  I don't know.
28. TBTim Briggs
  Did they have their own manufacturer?
29. CWChris Williamson
  Made in, uh, what is this?
30. TBTim Briggs
  I always wondered this.
15:00 – 30:00
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. …
1. JWJordan Wallace
  of them have a doubt about their ability or that they're supposed to be there.
2. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
3. JWJordan Wallace
  They all believe that they're supposed to be there.
4. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
5. JWJordan Wallace
  Look Conor McGregor for example.
6. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm.
7. JWJordan Wallace
  Like six years ago he was living on benefits. Now he's made 100... He was fourth on Forbes list last year.
8. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
9. JWJordan Wallace
  Like, you know, he's, he's just, he's got that ability and he's, he's got that, that mindset that allows him to do that and nobody's taught him that. He's just, he's had it in him.
10. CWChris Williamson
  Well we all, we all know that-
11. It's just innate.
12. ... we all know that when you get deeper into a workout, especially, specifically with crossfit I think is one of the reasons, and I said it on the first podcast that we did, one of the reasons I think crossfit is a, uh, an engaging spectator sport, the same, (clears throat) the same reason that the Tour de France is-
13. JWJordan Wallace
  Yeah.
14. CWChris Williamson
  ... that you can observe the suffering.
15. Mm-hmm.
16. JWJordan Wallace
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17. CWChris Williamson
  And you can see people as they go in and out of themselves battling with their own will to a degree.
18. Yeah.
19. JWJordan Wallace
  Compare it to yourself as well 'cause you've been through that.
20. CWChris Williamson
  And we all know, we all know that as you say, you know, a lot of these guys have got this unwavering self-belief. But put yourself half an hour deep into a really, really horrible workout-
21. Yeah.
22. ... and kind, that mindset gets tested a l- it's a different environment.
23. JWJordan Wallace
  It does get tested a lot. It, it does, it's just for me it, I think it's one of those things that you can develop it for sure, but I think you develop it through, through training. So you develop it through-
24. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
25. JWJordan Wallace
  ... like suffering.
26. CWChris Williamson
  Putting yourself there.
27. JWJordan Wallace
  Like ultimately suffering. Like when you turn up it's like that, that age old thing like train hard, play easy.
28. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm.
29. JWJordan Wallace
  Like train harder than the competition's ever gonna be so when you get there, it doesn't feel that bad. Like if you've gotta do seven events over three days, train 20. Do you know what I mean? Like make-
30. CWChris Williamson
  And that's your coach's job to do that.
30:00 – 45:00
So they're put in…
1. TBTim Briggs
  what can you do? Where do you need to scale? Someone might be amazing, they might be going to regionals, but they might not be able to complete this work.
2. CWChris Williamson
  So they're put in the bin by this workout.
3. TBTim Briggs
  Yeah.
4. JWJordan Wallace
  Yeah. Like it's ju- it's like-
5. TBTim Briggs
  And how are you gonna o- overcome that? What can you do next time?
6. JWJordan Wallace
  Yeah, it's like that whole thing about like failing, like people get super worried about it, like in whatever, training, business, whatever.
7. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
8. JWJordan Wallace
  Like, just have a pop.
9. TBTim Briggs
  Mm-hmm.
10. JWJordan Wallace
  You know what I mean? Like the people who are gonna have a go at you for failure are the same people that didn't give it a go.
11. TBTim Briggs
  Which people are gonna get better? The people who drop it back a couple of reps but complete it-
12. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm.
13. JWJordan Wallace
  ... or the people who just don't end up doing the workout?
14. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm.
15. JWJordan Wallace
  Or... You know what I mean? Or like-
16. TBTim Briggs
  Yeah.
17. JWJordan Wallace
  ... the people... It's a 40-minute workout of moving-
18. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
19. JWJordan Wallace
  ... and suffering.
20. CWChris Williamson
  Mm-hmm.
21. JWJordan Wallace
  Like, fucking endure.
22. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
23. TBTim Briggs
  Endure.
24. JWJordan Wallace
  And you'll be fine.
25. CWChris Williamson
  Fuck off.
26. JWJordan Wallace
  Like you will have done 40 minutes of hard, hard exercise-
27. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah, yeah.
28. JWJordan Wallace
  ... and improved one way or another.
29. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
30. JWJordan Wallace
  Um, and if the whole theory is, "I'm not gonna be able to get through this work," then, you know, the- you're not learning the right lessons.
45:00 – 56:36
How much? …
1. PWPaul Warrior
  I actually thought, I actually thought it was really good. I didn't really have time to eat anyway, but I tried to go to that Food Springs thing that everyone loves, but it was a b- about fucking €8 for a-
2. CWChris Williamson
  How much?
3. PWPaul Warrior
  ... for a water and a dried fucking strawberry.
4. JWJordan Wallace
  (laughs)
5. PWPaul Warrior
  Honestly, turns into dust in your hand. You think, well, there goes my sponsorship fucking deal, but-
6. CWChris Williamson
  Yeah.
7. PWPaul Warrior
  ... €8 for a fucking bo- (laughs)
8. CWChris Williamson
  €8.
9. PWPaul Warrior
  Bottle of wa- bottle of wa- it didn't even know if it was a bottle of water in it, just poured it into your- And now I owe you.
10. CWChris Williamson
  (laughs)
11. PWPaul Warrior
  Two waters, £8.00.
12. JWJordan Wallace
  Unbelievable.
13. CWChris Williamson
  Oh, that's daylight robbery.
14. PWPaul Warrior
  I know, yeah.
15. JWJordan Wallace
  I got in the affiliate lounge-
16. PWPaul Warrior
  (laughs) .
17. JWJordan Wallace
  That's the news. I got in the affiliate lounge and I was like, "Oh lads, all the coffee's free in that, so I'll just bring it out for you." He said, "Wait here." It was €4.00 for a coffee?
18. PWPaul Warrior
  (laughs)
19. JWJordan Wallace
  What do I pay the evacuation fees for?
20. CWChris Williamson
  You can't even get a free coff-
21. JWJordan Wallace
  At least got the free coffee.
22. CWChris Williamson
  Can't even get a free coffee all the way in Berlin.
23. PWPaul Warrior
  God damn.
24. JWJordan Wallace
  Oh, but uh, no, it was g- it was good. It was good. It was, um, yeah, it was just long. It was a long weekend. And very, very different, I think, for all of us.
25. CWChris Williamson
  How much, Paul, how much sleep do you get at regionals? Actually, no, I wanna ask, I'm gonna ask this-
26. PWPaul Warrior
  Do you know what thi-
27. CWChris Williamson
  How much sleep do you get, first off?
28. JWJordan Wallace
  In general?
29. CWChris Williamson
  When, yeah.
30. JWJordan Wallace
  In life.

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