Newest Lifestyle Challenge!

Our lifestyle challenge is changing this saturday! You should be a pro at drinking your water and getting your 7 hours of sleep in a day. Now you will earn your points by performing mindfulness every day.

Here is what the WLC says about mindfulness...

It's time to get mindful… really mindful.  It's your opportunity to create 'headspace', to clear out the junk, make room for something new, something different, something that you can't even see today because there's no available space.   What am I talking about?  For the next week, starting Saturday, your Lifestyle Challenge will be to practice 10 minutes of mindfulness in the form of meditation or journaling.   Yippee.  Yee Haw.  Exciting, huh?!  Well it may not be that exciting, but it represents and area in which most of us are lacking and could use some regular practice. Check the WLC Blog for more details on Thursday. I agree with the Whole Life Challenge, this is an area where a lot of us are lacking. Mindfulness can take many forms. This website offered several ideas for mindfulness exercises. Whatever mindfulness exercise you choose, you must perform it for 10 mins a day.  Also, on October 7th, there will be a RADIO SHOW on the topic with Mark Divine, Founder of the Unbeatable Mind program and US navy SEAL. The broadcast begins at 5pm PDT. You can even go to the Whole Life Challenge Facebook page and post questions for Mark ahead of time. Your performance in the gym is reliant on several things, and your mental game is a large part. A coach of mine once had me close my eyes before high jumping and visualize seeing myself as a bystander make the jump successfully, then close my eyes and see the same successful jump from my viewpoint. After the mental exercise, then you could make your attempt. That kind of positive mental approach was much more helpful than staring at the high jump bar and getting nervous and letting all the negative thoughts and worries start creeping in. Imagine how strong you could become in the gym, and in your daily life, if you could mindfully attack all of your WOD, lifts, work, kids...  This worksheet also gives ideas for mindfulness as it applies to athletes, that's YOU :)