Go With the Flow – State Mindset ~ Alex Wisch

The mindset for peak performance

Today’s Guest: Alex Wisch

Alex is a competitive peak performance coach and mental health activist, he works on optimizing health, fitness and work productivity, he also works on overcoming mental barriers and creative strategies to achieve the impossible. He struggled with major depression for many years until he decided to take control of his situation and change his lifestyle. Using his personal experience he created Fitness for Mental Health to educate and improve mental health.

Information:

In high school he played a lot of sports, including martial arts.

He participated in the men’s urbanathlon in New York where they had to climb 55 flights of stairs and overcome some obstacles and came in with the second best time.

We talked about the state of mind that is the flow

We talked about the fact that he had depression to the level that day-to-day functioning was very difficult for him.

Advantages of the flow mentality.

Group flow, how it works in a soccer team.

Differences between flow state and meditation

Trey’s rhythms, cognitive breaks.

Techniques to control anxiety

Things we discussed:

In his biography, he mentions that he had a drive to succeed from an early age.

In his first ultra he thought he was in last place and he was not.

We talked about perfectionism and where that came from.

How he discovered the flow mentality.

The hardest mile of the race: the second.

Alex is training for the 24-hour vertical climbing world record.

Bridge questions:

The must-have piece of gear for your sport is shorts and the right sunglasses.

The strangest thing he has ever seen in a training session or race was someone who violated safety protocols and put himself in a very dangerous situation.

The word that defines his life philosophy is persistence.