Happy Friday,

Forgive my focus on the CrossFit Open, but I've been enjoying the challenge. Not because I'm winning (LOL, I'm not) - but because I love feeling how hard I can push. And even more, I love this community. The support from literally everyone in the gym is tremendous. And the elite athletes mix with the beginners as equals. A true fitness family.

So while I was pleased with my performance last week, getting 50 225# deadlifts and 45 burpees in 10 minutes, I fell to middle of the worldwide pack.

Wish me even more luck tonight in the final workout of the Open as we do a series of pull-ups, double-unders, and thrusters. All challenging moves for me.

These moves are what inspired my first post below about commitment over motivation. I'm often NOT motivated to train these skills, but have been committed to doing so.

Then I give you a peek inside Success Stories Membership and the Performance Profiling exercise we are doing this month to maximize progress.

Be well,

Dr Eddie

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Commitment > Motivation

We rely too much on motivation.

Athletes come to me with complaints of low motivation to train. Coaches ask me to teach them how to motivate their players. Non-athletes are waiting for the motivation to start a nutritional program, begin an exercise routine or quit a bad habit.

But here is the bad news: as much as motivation is great when you have it (and it does help), there 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 be times you don't feel motivated and you still have to perform. You will struggle if you continue to believe, "I have to feel motivated 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 I can act on it."

Motivation is 𝗻𝗼𝘁 a prerequisite for action.

Commitment is far more powerful.

Commitment means, "I will do it. No matter what."

Commitment means, "I will take action when I don't feel like it."

You can increase your commitment when you set a goal by increasing your willingness to feel pain, fatigue, doubt in service of your goal. When you choose to sacrifice and feel uncomfortable in service of making progress. This means choosing to feel tired when you work out, to sit with the urge to eat sweets when you stick with your nutrition plan, go to bed on time when you want to stay up and watch Netflix.

Committed athletes win when motivated athletes don't feel like it anymore.

Strengthen your commitment inside Success Stories Membership HERE.

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Performance Profiling

Inside Success Stories this month members are creating their 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲. This exercise helps you identify the most important physical, psychological, technical and tactical factors associated with success in your sport (or other performance activity).

From there we measure how you are performing in each of these critical areas, and set goals to improve in the areas that will yield the greatest results.

𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘸𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.

I'll coach members through their goals on our Zoom Team Meeting on March 23rd.

Do you want to be a Success Story? Join us today.

See you on the inside.

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Dr. Eddie O’Connor

www.DrEddieOConnor.com

DrEddie@dreddieoconnor.com