Growth Mindset in Fitness

How you view yourself and other people in the world around you influences all of the things you see, think, and do. This is especially true when it comes to your fitness and how you are able to create new healthy habits around your strength goals. Embracing a growth mindset, rather than a fixed mindset, can have a huge impact on your outcomes and your overall enjoyment in and out of the gym.

Key Takeaways

If You Want to Embrace a Growth Mindset, You Should:

1) Look for examples in your life of times you have shown a growth mindset without realizing it

2) Reframe your challenges as opportunities

3) Collect evidence of your progress on a regular basis

Your Growth is Not Linear

Have you ever thought or said to yourself, ‘I’m just not built to do a pull-up’, or something along those lines? Believing that your qualities or characteristics are set in stone can keep you living in a fixed mindset. This is a common characteristic I see within my community, and it can leak out into other parts of your life and the way you view the world.

By challenging that belief and putting yourself in new and uncomfortable situations, you can stretch yourself and experience the magic that lies in the growth mindset.

Reframing Your Mindset

Strength training and life are about staying in the process and giving consistent effort, regardless of the outcome-based goal. By seeing the value in practice, you can seek out new challenges and experiences that leverage your strengths rather than trying to fix your weaknesses.

We all have days where it's easier to stay stuck in your fixed mindset. But if you can stretch yourself enough to reframe the way you think about your obstacles, true growth can occur.

Are you ready to ditch your fixed mindset and embrace the growth mindset? Share your thoughts with me in the comments on the episode page.

In This Episode

• Why you need to give yourself some grace if you are struggling with mindset (1:44)
• Learn about fixed mindset and why it can hold you back from achieving your goals (3:42)
• Understanding the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset and how it shows up in fitness (6:06)
• What you need to do to nudge past a fixed mindset and develop opportunity (10:25)
• How to leverage the idea of growth mindset to further your goals in fitness and beyond (14:12)

Quotes

“Whatever you are trying to do, inevitably, challenges in mindset come up.” (2:19)

“As you work towards achieving your goals in fitness, strength, fueling your body in a way that supports performance. You need to do that by showing up consistently and implementing new behaviors; you'll probably work on forming new habits, which is a great thing, and making different choices. And all of that is influenced by mindset.” (5:00)

“It's not just about the outcome, it's about the effort.” (11:32)

“If we don't ever step up and accept challenges, because we don't think we can be successful or we don't think we can win at that thing, its a lot harder to reach our fitness goals.” (13:20)

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